Does University of Michigan live up to the hype?

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So many students and alumni LOVE the school.
Proof is in the pudding.

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All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

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Anonymous wrote:There's just nothing unique at University of Michigan that is not available at a college in a state with better climate and lots of growth. It's a really overcrowded public university growing fast to cash in. It's located in a boring flyover country town in the middle of nowhere. It has the worst weather of any university in the top 50 (it will be in the 20s and 30s until April). And the state is crumbling and stagnant; smart residents can't flee fast enough. If University of Mississippi was suddenly in the top 30 college, would you all try to convince yourself it's great? That's basically Michigan right now. It's ranked highly because of it's legacy reputation and name rec (sports), not because it's a unique and special undergraduate setting.

You've posted this critique a number of times, and it really doesn't seem relevant to students picking U of M. OOS students don't have any real desire to live in Michigan anyway, and never really have (I attended U of M as an undergraduate in the '90's, when Michigan was doing well, but I none of my OOS friends ever intended to live there after graduation). So, the fact that Detroit is a dump is meaningless to them. And Ann Arbor is a perfectly nice college town that has everything college students are looking for during their 4 years there.

I mean, there are plenty of good or great schools in far worse places where students can't really venture off campus (I'm looking at you, Yale and U. Of Pennsylvania), that don't have any trouble attracting students.

You’re wasting your time trying to reason with this person. He/she/it will just continue to post the same statements ad naseum. Better to ignore and hopefully it will come to an end.

I'm kind of sympathetic to kids who, when given the choice of two otherwise equal schools, might pick the one that's located in a more pleasant climate. I could see picking UVa over U Of M in that regard. But, honestly, once you're talking about large schools located in a college town, the entertainment and social opportunities in Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, Gainesville, South Bend, Urbana-Champaign etc. are all pretty much the same.

I have to disagree that all college towns containing large schools are pretty much the same. Some are definitely better than others.

Sure, but they're all generally on the same spectrum of student ghetto housing, combined with bars where you can drink for cheap, coffee shops, sandwich stores etc.

The relative quality of the college town isn't really make it or break it when it comes to picking a school. And a college town like Ann Arbor is a perfectly acceptable place to spend 4 years. I mean, I'm not overselling it as some Xanadu. But, it's hardly the post-apocalyptic hell-hole the anti-Michigan PP was describing it as upthread.

It was miserable to both Sasha Obama and Madonna’s daughter who both transferred out. It’s cold, grey, boring and in the middle of nowhere. Unless you’re into sports and want to binge drink at football and hockey matches, you’re going to be really antsy to get out of there. Going to college in a region you can’t wait to move away from sounds pretty unappealing, to me. Especially when this debate is about non-resident students have the money to go basically anywhere they want.

Lourdes Leon graduated from Michigan in 2021. Once again you’re talking out of your ass.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/01/23/who-is-lourdes-leon/

Saying the same BS over and over again, as well as misinformation, is a sure sign of a personality disorder.

Yeah, because mommy went there and she is rich.
Madonna grew up in Pontiac and that is one messed up city. It's almost as messed up as thinking about Madonna rubbing up on Drake

Actually she lived in Avon Twp most of her younger years. Avon Twp became Rochester Hills, which is a fairly affluent far northern suburb of Detroit. She might be messed up as you call it, but her net worth is supposedly around 850 million. If only most of us were that messed up financially!

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Anonymous wrote:There's just nothing unique at University of Michigan that is not available at a college in a state with better climate and lots of growth. It's a really overcrowded public university growing fast to cash in. It's located in a boring flyover country town in the middle of nowhere. It has the worst weather of any university in the top 50 (it will be in the 20s and 30s until April). And the state is crumbling and stagnant; smart residents can't flee fast enough. If University of Mississippi was suddenly in the top 30 college, would you all try to convince yourself it's great? That's basically Michigan right now. It's ranked highly because of it's legacy reputation and name rec (sports), not because it's a unique and special undergraduate setting.

You've posted this critique a number of times, and it really doesn't seem relevant to students picking U of M. OOS students don't have any real desire to live in Michigan anyway, and never really have (I attended U of M as an undergraduate in the '90's, when Michigan was doing well, but I none of my OOS friends ever intended to live there after graduation). So, the fact that Detroit is a dump is meaningless to them. And Ann Arbor is a perfectly nice college town that has everything college students are looking for during their 4 years there.

I mean, there are plenty of good or great schools in far worse places where students can't really venture off campus (I'm looking at you, Yale and U. Of Pennsylvania), that don't have any trouble attracting students.

28 pages if negative comments. I wouldn’t send my kids there either

But they are Ivies. Michigan is not. I don't know why OP thinks there is any hype to Michigan at all. I certainly wouldn't pay for it.

No hype? 28 pages and counting makes me think otherwise. But you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

+ 1. Boston is colder and darker in winter than Ann Arbor. Providence & New Haven, not exactly paradise. And I loved my time in Hanover but the winter there is LONG! Yet all of them seems to draw top students, just like UMich.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

Ivy vs overcrowded state school

East coast vs middle of nowhere flyover country

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It seems a few stir crazy Michigan residents have found this thread. They can’t differentiate their miserable state from a state university from the point of view of an affluent non-resident prospective student. Even the Michigan governor was in Washington Post this saying her two U-Mich student daughters plan to flee the state after college. If the governor’s own daughters don’t want to be the Rust Belt, why would rich kids from the East and West coasts?

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

Ivy vs overcrowded state school

East coast vs middle of nowhere flyover country

Because all of the East Coast is just so lovely. Last I looked, Ann Arbor is nicer than New Haven or Princeton, NJ. Get a clue, coastal snob wannabe.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems a few stir crazy Michigan residents have found this thread. They can’t differentiate their miserable state from a state university from the point of view of an affluent non-resident prospective student. Even the Michigan governor was in Washington Post this saying her two U-Mich student daughters plan to flee the state after college. If the governor’s own daughters don’t want to be the Rust Belt, why would rich kids from the East and West coasts?

Its seems that the elitist snobs who never leave the DMV and scream nonsensically about “flyover country” without having any idea what they are talking about have found this thread as well.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

Ivy vs overcrowded state school

East coast vs middle of nowhere flyover country

Because all of the East Coast is just so lovely. Last I looked, Ann Arbor is nicer than New Haven or Princeton, NJ. Get a clue, coastal snob wannabe.

Ann Arbor may be nicer than New Haven. It's not as nice as Princeton, although it's certainly more of a "college town."

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Anonymous wrote:It seems a few stir crazy Michigan residents have found this thread. They can’t differentiate their miserable state from a state university from the point of view of an affluent non-resident prospective student. Even the Michigan governor was in Washington Post this saying her two U-Mich student daughters plan to flee the state after college. If the governor’s own daughters don’t want to be the Rust Belt, why would rich kids from the East and West coasts?

This thread isn't about living in Michigan, the state. It's about attending Michigan, the school.

There have always been OOS students at Michigan and they've always mostly left the state after graduation. Michigan's economy makes no difference to kids from New York state or Maryland or wherever when they're considering the school. The school, as an appealing academic institution, has little to do with Michigan as a whole.

People have pointed out to you numerous times why this argument is dumb. Why do you keep making it?

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The CONTEXT of this thread is why go to a huge overcrowded public college in a dying cold weather rust belt state if you can afford to go anywhere? OF COURSE if you live in Michigan it’s a steal to go to Umich at the cheap resident rate. But is it worth over $70k a year to rich kids who can go anywhere? No, it’s frankly not. These TikTok rich teens crave warm weather and/or bustling big cities. Ann Arbor is a freezing cold backwater.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

Ivy vs overcrowded state school

East coast vs middle of nowhere flyover country

Because all of the East Coast is just so lovely. Last I looked, Ann Arbor is nicer than New Haven or Princeton, NJ. Get a clue, coastal snob wannabe.

You’re clearly a small minded Michigan lifer who’s never been anywhere. Googling random college towns doesn’t make you an expert on anything.

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Anonymous wrote:The CONTEXT of this thread is why go to a huge overcrowded public college in a dying cold weather rust belt state if you can afford to go anywhere? OF COURSE if you live in Michigan it’s a steal to go to Umich at the cheap resident rate. But is it worth over $70k a year to rich kids who can go anywhere? No, it’s frankly not. These TikTok rich teens crave warm weather and/or bustling big cities. Ann Arbor is a freezing cold backwater.

Just because it's a big school, doesn't mean its's overcrowded, whatever that means.

The reason you would go to Michigan is because it's one of the best schools in the country, with many different academic programs that appeal to a wide variety of students. You know, to get an education? And, honestly, the type of rich kids who make their university decisions based on TikTok videos don't really have the academic chops to make it into Michigan. Arizona State is more their speed, academically.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you yammering on about the weather in Michigan, tell us how warm and sunny it is where all of the Ivies are located. Massachusetts and New York are simply paradise in the winter I’m sure!

Ivy vs overcrowded state school

East coast vs middle of nowhere flyover country

Because all of the East Coast is just so lovely. Last I looked, Ann Arbor is nicer than New Haven or Princeton, NJ. Get a clue, coastal snob wannabe.

You’re clearly a small minded Michigan lifer who’s never been anywhere. Googling random college towns doesn’t make you an expert on anything.

Did Tom Brady steal your girlfriend or something? You have a really weird hate boner for the state of Michigan.