Why is Michigan such a popular school in the MD/DC/VA area?

[Anonymous]

PP really missed the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Ann Arbor is also a thriving college town, compared to College Park

Thriving might be overstating it a little.

Indeed.

Median home value in Ann Arbor is $380,000
Median home value in Chevy Chase is $960,000
Median home value in Arlington in $688,000
Median home value in Georgetown, DC is $1,200,000

How is it possible to be this dumb?

Calling a podunk college town in Michigan “thriving” is an overstatement. That was the point. Wealthy OOS students who end up at Michigan despise the townies and consider Ann Arbor boring, run down and backwater.

it's a dumb and inaccurate one. what towns would you consider thriving?

[Anonymous]

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No, we should listen only to the wealthy students who "end up" at Michigan. They are not bitter at all for having "ended-up" at a public (gasp) university.

The title of the topic is why is UMich so popular with out of state students. OOS students who attend Michigan are generally $350,000-plus HHI, ergo fairly wealthy. To them, Ann Arbor is in fact podunk, provincial and slow...and cold, very very cold.

[Anonymous]

Do you not see that contradiction? Or are you trying to say that is it popular because it is unpopular?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ann Arbor is also a thriving college town, compared to College Park

Thriving might be overstating it a little.

Indeed.

Median home value in Ann Arbor is $380,000
Median home value in Chevy Chase is $960,000
Median home value in Arlington in $688,000
Median home value in Georgetown, DC is $1,200,000

How is it possible to be this dumb?

Calling a podunk college town in Michigan “thriving” is an overstatement. That was the point. Wealthy OOS students who end up at Michigan despise the townies and consider Ann Arbor boring, run down and backwater.

Based on this comment, you have never been to Ann Arbor, nor do you know anyone who actually goes to school there.

(and I am not a UM alum)

[Anonymous]

There are a few nice places in Michigan, scattered among the Detroit hellscape and the rest of MI meth addicts. Ann Arbor is one such nice place.

[Anonymous]

Wealthy out of state students at Umich have a habit of calling locals and in-state peers “peasants”. They also say it’s “easy” for in-staters to get admitted, ergo you’re dumb flyover trash; we’re smarter, richer and more sophisticated. There was a nationwide news event at Umich a few years ago where frats and sororities full of OOS rich kids did millions of dollars in damage to some Michigan ski resorts. They justified it by claiming the places were dumps anyways; which perfectly encapsulates the general outlook OOS students have for the state when they’re trapped in Ann Arbor for four years. And of course at graduation they all b-line for the airport and turnpikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you not see that contradiction? Or are you trying to say that is it popular because it is unpopular?

Let's assume that the absurd PP is correct - - AA is provincial, slow, boring, cold, etc (it is not). Given this assumption, I am led to the inescapable conclusion that Michigan is so popular among the wealthy east coasters because Michigan's academics are first class!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a great school in a great college town. Not redneck like VT or suburban like UMD.

Blacksburg's an awesome college town. Not rednecky like the rest of SW Virginia.

It is rednecky compared to northern college towns.

They all have a townie element, but Blacksburg is rednecky.

[Anonymous]

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No, we should listen only to the wealthy students who "end up" at Michigan. They are not bitter at all for having "ended-up" at a public (gasp) university.

The title of the topic is why is UMich so popular with out of state students. OOS students who attend Michigan are generally $350,000-plus HHI, ergo fairly wealthy. To them, Ann Arbor is in fact podunk, provincial and slow...and cold, very very cold.

Have you ever been there?

As an OOS student you are completely wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wealthy out of state students at Umich have a habit of calling locals and in-state peers “peasants”. They also say it’s “easy” for in-staters to get admitted, ergo you’re dumb flyover trash; we’re smarter, richer and more sophisticated. There was a nationwide news event at Umich a few years ago where frats and sororities full of OOS rich kids did millions of dollars in damage to some Michigan ski resorts. They justified it by claiming the places were dumps anyways; which perfectly encapsulates the general outlook OOS students have for the state when they’re trapped in Ann Arbor for four years. And of course at graduation they all b-line for the airport and turnpikes.

LOL

You are completely wrong.

[Anonymous]

Michigan became the de facto state school for good students from NY and NJ because those states have mediocre state schools at best.

[Anonymous]

No one care about NY/NJ. Read the title of the thread next time.

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Anonymous wrote:No one care about NY/NJ. Read the title of the thread next time.

Well, MD has cringe inducing state schools. VA has some great ones. I don’t know what the DC area is other than MD and VA. Enjoy George Mason.

[Anonymous]

I read this thread because its a question I've often wondered about too - but I don't feel like I've seen any genuine answers here, just the usual DCUM BS from embittered or entitled mommies.