I think that you overrate the brainiacs. I went to the second best university in my state MSU. I was wait listed to the best UM. It’s mostly just upper income kids pushed to go their but of average intelligence and average at best work ethic. An engineer is an engineer and tough to BS through and ditto for similar fields most everything else is BS.
Full disclosure “I have a high aptitude for learning” but am dyslexic as [bleep].
MI Tech and Kettering are way mo bedder than Moo-U.
Sorry, we can't be friends...
