University of Michigan or Washington University in St. Louis?
grandalf: WashU:  Lots of rich kids.  If your parent(s) make under $400K you'll feel poor there.  It's a boutique school.UMich:  Huge lectures, cold winters, football fans, etc.  The honors program and engineering schools are both great.If you're motivated you'll stand out from the crowd at Michigan, whereas at WashU most of the kids are fairly motivated, they just didn't quite get into Ivy.  At Michigan, you'll meet quite a few people who got into Ivy League schools but didn't go for various reasons.Both are great schools, though, so I think you could almost decide this with a coin toss.