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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]MSU is backwater, over 50,000 undergrads, admits any warm body [/b]since they ran into financial trouble from lawsuits.[/quote]

but gretchen whitmer, our lordess and savior went there![/quote]

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