Why does Michigan get such negative comments from posters here?

[Anonymous]

All the OOS kids consider their in-state peers and locals to be unsophisticated "peasants". They consider the state in general to be a backwater boring dump full of bumpkins. That is why basically zero of them stay after graduation. They leave the very second they graduate. But go ahead and shower it with fake praise, tell us how charming and decadent it is, how it's not a economic deadzone, how sweet all the panhandlers are, the grey skies and 3ft snow drifts, the crumbling pothole-filled roads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the OOS kids consider their in-state peers and locals to be unsophisticated "peasants". They consider the state in general to be a backwater boring dump full of bumpkins. That is why basically zero of them stay after graduation. They leave the very second they graduate. But go ahead and shower it with fake praise, tell us how charming and decadent it is, how it's not a economic deadzone, how sweet all the panhandlers are, the grey skies and 3ft snow drifts, the crumbling pothole-filled roads.

Bitter much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the OOS kids consider their in-state peers and locals to be unsophisticated "peasants". They consider the state in general to be a backwater boring dump full of bumpkins. That is why basically zero of them stay after graduation. They leave the very second they graduate. But go ahead and shower it with fake praise, tell us how charming and decadent it is, how it's not a economic deadzone, how sweet all the panhandlers are, the grey skies and 3ft snow drifts, the crumbling pothole-filled roads.

You again? Michigan in-state feeds from private schools like Cranbrook and school districts like Grosse Pointe, Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Northville. These are hardly peasants. Brain drain is a problem because Southeast Michigan has been stagnant for a long time, but that has nothing to do with U of M. In fact, Ann Arbor is developing as a start hub due to all the research done at the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rah-rah athlete worshipping party college... insanely huge and overwhelming campus... 500+ student lectures... rampant cheating... Greeks control social life... advisors don't care about you... more diversity administrators than mental health therapists... the bottom 10% of the college is dumb... half the college is the worst assortment of New Jersey, California and Long Island residents.

Your kid will thrive if they want to rush, drink and do coke for a few years -or- if they're the pushy super elbowy TJ magnet school sort.

First rate grad schools though.

Insane huge and overwhelming campus? LOL. Ann Arbor has many charms and facets, but huge and overwhelming it is not. Are you from a very small town, possibly in the South?

Over 50,000 students and all the bureaucracy that comes with it is in fact huge and overwhelming. Ann Arbor is just a podunk cold weather flyover country college town.

The kids who thrive on such a massive campus are the obnoxious Greek life coke trash there to party and the obnoxious ruthless striver Tiger cubs that went to magnet schools. If your kid isn't in either cohort, don't send them there for undergrad.

PP - You are the rabid Michigan hater from other threads that pop up periodically, aren’t you? Either way you are completely off balance. While there are Greeks are Michigan they are hardly a major focus at the school for most students. You clearly experienced some trauma for which I hope you can find help. Or maybe you couldn’t get into Michigan. May you find peace.