 What's up YouTube? Are you applying to the University of Michigan but have no idea what you're going to say in the Why This College essay? Stay tuned for expert tips to apply like an admissions officer. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best college essay advice. Subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when I post a new video every Tuesday. So the Michigan supplement Why This College is about 550 words on the longer side of the the kind of Why This College supplements. By the end of this video I will show you what information should be in there and how to find the information a bit quicker. Hi I'm Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance with hundreds of students already in college or graduates by now. I know what they're looking for and I know how to help you stand up. Let's get to it. Okay so here we are at the homepage for the University of Michigan. We are going to have two documents kind of in tandem. We're going to have the website that we're going to do most of our research on and we're going to have a document. I've opened a document here. I'll go over the notes that I have but basically you're going to put Why Michigan and then you're going to have these subheadings. Homepage news major so your major and learning in the classroom for our purposes because I work with a lot of students applying to Michigan's engineering program. We're going to do mechanical engineering research beyond the classroom and then living and socializing at Michigan. So those are going to be our notes and so then we're going to go to the homepage and the homepage is like their sound bite by their commercial their own answer to the Why Michigan question. And so you'll have different kind of a news rule with different articles and research. If you can pick that you'll have different facts that you can pick. So there are Pulitzer Prize winners, Guggenheim winners, MacArthur Fellows, Emmy winners and then you'll have kind of in the news right. And so because I'm doing mechanical engineering I want to find something in STEM. You can do something with the Apollo 11 but I already did that for Pen for that video. If you haven't seen it you can check that out. So you can do something like decarbonizing travel in cities and the Membrister. Oh I can't say that. So let's say those two. We have info here according to a new University of Michigan led study. Perfect. So I'm going to copy paste this information onto our homepage news. So that's one topic that you can start your essay with and then AI processing down from the cloud. So why does this why is this of interest? And so in medical devices the ability to run AI algorithms without the cloud would enable better security and privacy. So if you are interested in mechanical engineering and healthcare or you've done something with your robotics club and service in hospitals in high school something that you can connect it with you can say this is interesting because of my experience here. So I'm going to copy and paste that in homepage news. Now we're going to go into the major and kind of learning in the classroom. So now we're going to go into the mechanical engineering website and you have kind of different news there that you can kind of bring in as well. This sounds pretty cool. Self driving safety. So this is specifically what the program is doing in their own classrooms and labs right. So I'm going to put this in research and beyond the classroom. That may be something that you'd want to participate in and you can use kind of the specific names right. Then you'd want to pick. So then you're going to go to academics undergraduate and so then they have a couple of projects and research and so I'm going to I'm going to open those two rise and mayus and then I'm going to go to the courses. So your rise program to work alongside world renowned faculty instead of the art facilities. They have a multidisciplinary design program. Okay. So this all sounds pretty cool. I'm going to copy paste this to our notes. It's a symposium to share their kind of rise research. So that's pretty cool. So they go kind of in tandem. And so then let's go to the courses. So here you're going to pick courses that are of interest. You can pick two of them. Let's say right. I'm just picking random whichever. But an interesting part is that you can go to a sample syllabus and all of the websites tend to be different depending on the school. But you can see who's a professor. Kind of what they're working on. You're going to have a lot of homework. Okay. And you just copy paste. So this is going to be back up in learning in the classroom. And then for our purposes, I picked a professor. I just went into one of the random syllabi. And I picked assistant professor Jesse Austin Breneman. So you have here research interests. Copy that. And then you have his project based design. So this is from their from his lab and what the students are doing. Right. So this is of interest and all your they're not going to hold you to any of this major information. But all you're doing basically is saying it would be a privilege to participate in initiatives like the ME project based design with Professor Breneman as it's of great interest junior year during my robotics club. I initiated. I studied, blah, blah, blah, blah, right. So something some connection, but mostly about them. So I would copy past this for later. And so now we're going to life at Michigan. So you have different kind of, you know, arts and culture music. So let's see what arts and culture gives us. So you can pick anything of interest, right? performances and events. And you can just say, while I'm not studying at name the library, you can find me at and just kind of, you know, mention a couple of these and then any initiatives. So anything you kind of want to be a part of. So entrepreneurship and innovation, maybe global Michigan, maybe of interest heritage sustainability. So you're not going to go through all of them, but just kind of quickly scan. And the sustainability one is also something that's really relevant today. So you have the information and and feel free to, you know, you watch any of these videos and you can quote if there's a student talking about this, you can kind of say, oh, because I saw the U of sustainability planet blue YouTube video and learned how students are coming together to XYZ. Are you applying to other schools that are requiring the YS supplement? If you have any questions on the research process, comment below. I'd love to help. Ideally, you would start with something from the homepage news, whether the autonomous fleet, right, that we first the electric autonomous taxis that are of interest as mechanical engineer or as a future engineer, you are interested in kind of solving real world problems like carbon emission, like global warming through kind of solution oriented engineering initiatives, right? And so you can mention this. The, I can never say that, memrister computer, right? That may be something else. If you have service in hospitals or community service in high school that related to anything with regards to medical or security, I don't know, that may be of interest. Then you go into learning and major in the classroom. So you would state mechanical engineering, right? There was a course that I found that's engineering 100. And so we have, you say, you know, first semester students in robotics compete in the class inverting the traditional students sit in desks approach. You can mention freshman Leo Russo and her experience has a Wolverine. This is from a YouTube video. And you can say something like, I have great interest or it would be a privilege and learning from assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Jesse Austin Breneman, Professor Austin Breneman or Dr. Austin Breneman going forward focuses on XYZ, right? So you would say two courses of interest are 336 thermodynamics two and 350 design, for instance, right? You have other language here that you can borrow always in your own words, but you can lift different phrases here and there and then you put them in quote, especially mottos and like, you know, sound bite phrases that they want to be memorable. Then you would move into research and beyond the classroom. So you would say something like, not only is learning action packed and hands on, but outside of the classroom, the number one rank U of M's entrepreneurship program in the College of Engineering is teaching engineers how to launch their own business projects. So we saw this in one of the web pages. Then you can mention the, you know, the multiple the multidisciplinary design program is of interest and how enriching it would be to learn and work alongside peers of different majors further the opportunity to work and learn from Bosch robust plan path planning for automated vehicles that are not and then you would do a quick connection to your robotics club. So let's say you didn't start with this specific from the essay, right? You have other information that you can bring in. And you can say two initiatives that I would love to be a part of are rise and mayas. And then you can kind of talk about what they do, what their learning outcomes are for their students. Then you go into something social. So as an avid musical music festival fan or as a street fair lover back home, I would love to when I'm not studying, go to the museum around town or a gifts of art that are definitely organize all of your information on a document and then start kind of picking and choosing what you're going to put a very specific terminology from their website. So they know that this why Michigan essay cannot be swapped with an NYU or UCF. Feel free to sprinkle in some kind of catchphrases in lingo of the university like go blue. A couple of years ago, they started kind of directly translating that into Spanish. So if you're a bilingual student, you can definitely end with that. They also say hail to the victors. And you can use their school mission. Also, you can say that when you get to the to the Michigan union, you'd want to kind of spin the cube. It's like this kind of sculpture cubed shaped cope sculpture. It's huge, but it's surprisingly lightweight. And there's a legend that school presidents since I don't know when have basically started their academic years and first days of school by spinning the cube. So you can kind of emulate that tradition as well. Make sure you research your school beyond brand power. Like I've segmented in this video, there are components you want to hit in this why this college essay, whether it's from Michigan or another institution. Also, don't forget your main essay. I have a free college essay guide download in the description below. You want to grab that I show you how to kind of organize information where depending on the essay type and information on diversity information on how to write an anecdote. And please if you like this video, click like hit subscribe and share with your college bound friends. Good luck. I'll see you soon.