#Rising Freshman Resume Feedback (Cooked?)

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hallow plinth
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Rising Freshman Resume Feedback (Cooked?)

daring plank
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lol

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projected 4.0 from mich in cs / neuro w math minor

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dont make ur bullet points the shit u put on common app

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also these bullet points lowkey dont say anything

crimson fossil
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my best advice for you is to keep up the 4.0

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keep your gpa as high as you can

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do some kaggle competition, coding club, etc

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try to go above and beyond

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it sucks but being ordinary is no longer good enough

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plus your school is not bad but it's not great

tired oyster
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plus your school is not bad but it's not great

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???

crimson fossil
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U Mich Ann Arbor is considered one of the top public schools

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but it's not a private (ivy/mit/stanford)

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definitely not bad, but not one of the elite schools

worn wasp
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It is definitely an elite CS school

halcyon pivot
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umich is goated

daring plank
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started college

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the 4.0 is just not true idk why he has it there

tired oyster
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"UMich is not great" yes it id

crimson fossil
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bud idk how to break it to you but in the world of elite recruiting, the recruiters just run a filter for like top 10 schools, which are almost all privates

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im not saying its fair

daring plank
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umich is a t10 tho

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for cs

crimson fossil
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im just saying that's what it is

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higher than UC berkeley?

daring plank
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?

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since when did u need to be higher than berkeley

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to be a t10

crimson fossil
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I'm not sure what the definitive rankings are. I've always known U Mich is a good school. But im pretty sure MIT, caltech, stanford are higher

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would not be surprised if cornell, uc berkeley, and maybe a couple other schools are also higher

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ultimately great/good are all subjective measures

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im giving my opinion

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though I don't religiously keep up with the top 10 rankings

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I don't check it every week

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so I could be slightly off

tired oyster
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All the schools ur mentioning including UMich are great schools

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Also don't quants recruit from UMich

worn wasp
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To say umich is not bad but not great is just absurd

crimson fossil
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It's possible toget into quant from any school, but it becomes harder the further down you go

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there is a huge bias toward east coast schools due to proximity to wall street

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things may have changed in past 10 years, but historically its been like this

daring plank
hallow plinth
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A lot of quants recruit from UMich and the startup culture is pretty goated

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I mean I chose it cuz I can study both CS and Neuro while at other school their pre-med is shit (GT, UIUC, CMU, etc.)

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And their math department is also very strong

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I mean the only other schools where I could do what I want to were MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard but I didn't get in those so here we are with either entirely cs focused schools, low tier ivies, and umich

hallow plinth
crimson fossil
# hallow plinth I mean the only other schools where I could do what I want to were MIT, Stanford...

Just curious, honest question, no agenda here:

Do you think UMich is better or more prestigious than Brown Dartmouth Cornell Columbia UPenn Yale (the Ivy's you didn't mention). I am willing to concede for pure maths UMich may be better, as Ivy's are liberal arts slanted, but in terms of prestige I'm not so sure. Also, Cornell (which at least a while ago) was strong in engineering out of all Ivy's, and Columbia with their MFE program is by no means low tier

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Also genuine question: how does Georgia tech factor into this? Worse than MIT and Caltech, but better than .... ? Better than some places right?

hallow plinth
# crimson fossil Just curious, honest question, no agenda here: Do you think UMich is better or ...

I think when looking at the school overall, UMich is def not more prestigious than any Ivy, Stanford, and MIT. Among publics I believe it might be slightly less than UC Berkeley if not the same level. However when looking at CS prestige I do believe it is better than Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, Yale, and maybe Columbia as those programs focus on a different aspect of CS (ex: like getting a PhD or theoretical CS). BUT this doesn't mean they have bad recruiting/job opportunities because they obviously don't. In terms of pre-med/neuroscience, Michigan med is quite prestigious and has an extremely strong alumni network which helps.

crimson fossil
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I see

hallow plinth
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I mentioned GT and the others because those were some of my options but ultimately when looking at the stuff I wanted to study, their slight edge over UMich CS didn't justify going all in on them as they lacked in premed stuff.

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Or maybe I am being completely unreasonable, but it seems to me CS rankings and college rankings in general have shifted significantly even in the last 5 years

crimson fossil
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It's possible. I don't pay attention to rankings anymore. I'm in a different part of my career now.

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I'm not trying to contradict or just stir shit

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It's just when I browse my LinkedIn, I can't recall seeing a U Mich undergrad quant

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But to be fair I didn't specifically search for that

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🤷‍♂️

hallow plinth
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no thats completely fair, i mean even like 2-3 years ago umich quants were pretty rare

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it happened recently where there are more now

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the closest in that time period was my friends older brother

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he got an internship at imc but no return

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and like everybody looked at him when he said was from umich lmao

crimson fossil
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like im not mad at umich getting into quant

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but its like a big "huh? umich?"

hallow plinth
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yea, bc when i was looking into my options i was also surprised by umich too

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so you were saying to keep my GPA high and just try to get involved in different things right

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i know that SWE doesn't care too much about gpa, if im correct

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but quant is different

tired oyster
daring plank
crimson fossil
tired oyster
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - 284

Carnegie Mellon University - 241

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 204

Georgia Institute of Technology - 152

Columbia University - 147

University of California, Berkeley - 130

Cornell University - 124

The University of Texas at Austin - 121

Stanford University - 114

University of Michigan - 84