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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To in-state private school families, it generally goes like this below. Many families with high stat kids choose private tier 2s over huge Michigan for undergrad studies. Paying out-of-state tuition at Indiana is a way to flaunt your family money over sending your average stats kid to Michigan State.

Tier 1: Notre Dame, Northwestern, Duke, USC, Ivies
Tier 2: Michigan, Kalamazoo, Hillsdale, Albion
Tier 3: Indiana, Hope, Miami-OH, Dayton, Loyola-Chicago
Tier 4: Michigan State, U of Detroit-Mercy
Tier 5: the rest, as all the rest are basically open admit[/quote]

An interesting take.  As to your "Tier 1" here are my comments:  Notre Dame -- perhaps, if you're Catholic (and not terribly orthodox); Northwestern  -- if you want to attend the second-best school in Chicago; Duke -- if you like partying, basketball, and identity politics; USC -- who cares?; Ivies -- if you belong to one of the correct demographic groups.[/quote]

Northwestern has been the smart rich kid magnet of the entire Middle West for at least 50 years. Very few in Michigan care about U of Chicago, it's a niche school. To have a mere chance of getting into Notre Dame you need to be val or sal of your class at your Catholic high school. To get into U of Michigan you just need to be within the top 5% to 10% of your class. Many kids that qualify for U of Michigan have no appetite to become 1 of 7,000 freshman, half of which are obnoxious trash from Jersey and Long Island, into cocaine and blacking out before sport ball competitions. MSU is backwater, over 50,000 undergrads, admits any warm body since they ran into financial trouble from lawsuits.[/quote]

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