Why is UMich so overrated?

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Anonymous wrote:The location? College Park is a dump and Ann Arbor is supposed to be beautiful.

They are both dumps!

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A lot of people move away from Michigan, & a lot move back too. Some people miss the change of seasons. Others find the real estate & property taxes too high elsewhere. Or the traffic is terrible in other places. Fishing, hunting, boating….There are lots of things people don’t appreciate about the state until they leave.

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what a miserable life must this OP have or maybe just playing with some AI

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Anonymous wrote:The location? College Park is a dump and Ann Arbor is supposed to be beautiful.

They are both dumps!

I like College Park. It's not GWU in downtown DC but still the campus is nice, nice stadium, nice arena and life is really cool if living in off-campus student apt, plus shopping at the nearby trader joe's and cooking with roommates,

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Anonymous wrote:The location? College Park is a dump and Ann Arbor is supposed to be beautiful.

In what context is rust belt lower Mid-Michigan beautiful? University of Colorado, Boulder with the Rockies or Pepperdine and University of California, Santa Barbara overlooking the Pacific Ocean are beautiful. Even Georgetown could also be described as beautiful with such charming historic surroundings; Victorian and gothic architecture. But not Ann Arbor. And Michigan's weather sucks most of academic year; the greyest most sunless region in the U.S.

Thanks for providing a picture that shows Ann Arbor is located in, “the greyest most sunless region in the US.” You can’t even troll properly. Check out Alaska and the northwest if you want to see grey skies and little sun.

Nobody is trolling. That photo is summer in Ann Arbor, which is not during the academic school year. Here's Ann Arbor during the school year. Enjoy the rust belt!

We visited Michigan during the coldest, deadest weekend of the year - MLK weekend. Even then, the energy and excitement (and yes, beauty) of the campus was palpable.

I wish more people were as bitter and hateful towards Michigan as some of these crackpot posters, nearly 100,000 undergraduate applicants each yr seem to disagree.

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No one cares what you think, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:The location? College Park is a dump and Ann Arbor is supposed to be beautiful.

In what context is rust belt lower Mid-Michigan beautiful? University of Colorado, Boulder with the Rockies or Pepperdine and University of California, Santa Barbara overlooking the Pacific Ocean are beautiful. Even Georgetown could also be described as beautiful with such charming historic surroundings; Victorian and gothic architecture. But not Ann Arbor. And Michigan's weather sucks most of academic year; the greyest most sunless region in the U.S.

Thanks for providing a picture that shows Ann Arbor is located in, “the greyest most sunless region in the US.” You can’t even troll properly. Check out Alaska and the northwest if you want to see grey skies and little sun.

Nobody is trolling. That photo is summer in Ann Arbor, which is not during the academic school year. Here's Ann Arbor during the school year. Enjoy the rust belt!

That photo could be taken in the vast majority of America. Like I said, give it up already!

Michigan is top 3 fastest dying states in the nation. The weather blows and the lawmakers are literally trying to bribe stem grads to remain in state after graduation. Why would a kid waste their prime in the rust belt? It’s a big country and Michigan sure as shit ain’t an Ivy League college with elite cachet.

Anyone who writes “sure as shit” in 2024 has zero credibility.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a prior poster. Michigan has football and Ann Arbor going for it. It also has great name recognition with the Proles. Apart from the Ivys (and most Proles have no f-ing clue who the Ivys are apart from H-Y-P....I mean what's Brown apart from a color and what the heck is a Dartmouth??), your average Prole frame of college reference revolves around football. Big Ten and SEC especially. So Michigan checks that box. The drama and lawsuits relating to admissions a generation ago conjured up the image of Michigan as academically elite. The Big Chill of a generation before that made it cool.

But it's basically just a big state school with good football and a decent college town. Everything else is just hype.

Pretty much. It gets the hype because it has literally hundreds of thousands of insecure non-resident alums who boomeranged back to LA, NYC and Washington after graduation. If Ann Arbor is such an amazing town and Michigan such a wonderful place to spend four (4) years in, why didn't the alums remain there after graduation? We all know why. It's boring, the weather is awful, the locals are creepy, and they couldn't wait to leave.

The locals are creepy?

Provincial and creepy, yes. The state of Michigan is a dying backwater. They are literally bribing college grads to move back for a year with $10,000 checks. Seriously.

There are plenty of affluent suburbs in Michigan. And if some parts are “dying,” what the hell does that have to do with UM being a top school? Yale grads aren’t exactly clamoring to stay in New Haven or even Connecticut- same for Brown and Providence, RI - who cares where grads ultimately live??!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Not a prior poster. Michigan has football and Ann Arbor going for it. It also has great name recognition with the Proles. Apart from the Ivys (and most Proles have no f-ing clue who the Ivys are apart from H-Y-P....I mean what's Brown apart from a color and what the heck is a Dartmouth??), your average Prole frame of college reference revolves around football. Big Ten and SEC especially. So Michigan checks that box. The drama and lawsuits relating to admissions a generation ago conjured up the image of Michigan as academically elite. The Big Chill of a generation before that made it cool.

But it's basically just a big state school with good football and a decent college town. Everything else is just hype.

Pretty much. It gets the hype because it has literally hundreds of thousands of insecure non-resident alums who boomeranged back to LA, NYC and Washington after graduation. If Ann Arbor is such an amazing town and Michigan such a wonderful place to spend four (4) years in, why didn't the alums remain there after graduation? We all know why. It's boring, the weather is awful, the locals are creepy, and they couldn't wait to leave.

The locals are creepy?

Provincial and creepy, yes. The state of Michigan is a dying backwater. They are literally bribing college grads to move back for a year with $10,000 checks. Seriously.

There are plenty of affluent suburbs in Michigan. And if some parts are “dying,” what the hell does that have to do with UM being a top school? Yale grads aren’t exactly clamoring to stay in New Haven or even Connecticut- same for Brown and Providence, RI - who cares where grads ultimately live??!!!

Princeton grads stay in New Jersey. 🙄

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Anonymous wrote:Goes without saying but I would never send DC there. UMD has a lower acceptance rate and higher SAT average, and a better engineering school and law school. Plus the endowment is bigger.

LOL

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Detroit enjoyed a population gain for the first time in decades. the hard work to re-imagine the city is beginning to pay off.

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Michigan isn't overrated, just overpriced (OOS).

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan isn't overrated, just overpriced (OOS).

It’s expensive OOS for sure, but not when you compare it to its private peers.

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Apparently they have a lot of grade inflation going on as well. This just out: 74% of grades given at UofM are As

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2024/05/74-of-university-of-michigan-grades-are-as-other-schools-arent-far-behind.html

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Anonymous wrote:The location? College Park is a dump and Ann Arbor is supposed to be beautiful.

They are both dumps!

I like College Park. It's not GWU in downtown DC but still the campus is nice, nice stadium, nice arena and life is really cool if living in off-campus student apt, plus shopping at the nearby trader joe's and cooking with roommates,

+1 certainly Baltimore Avenue near the Beltway is nothing to write home about. When you get closer to campus, big brand new apartment buildings keep going up. Like the little downtown near Greek row. On a recent Saturday afternoon, the area was very busy. DS said its a mob of students on weekend evenings.