I’m enrolled in a top-5 undergraduate business program, one consistently ranked beside MIT’s, UPenn’s, and Stanford’s. 99.5% of my classmates will graduate with a full-time job offer in hand, with about a quarter of those working at places like McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. The facilities are impeccable (we just got a $100M donation), the student groups rich and varied, the class sizes relatively small. By all traditional metrics, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is exceptional; I should be proud to attend.
But I’m not. I’m actually sort of embarrassed about it, though I don’t hide the fact I go there for the simple reason that most people think it’s commendable. The goal here is to fight that misconception.