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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Michigan has lost population two years in a row. That is bleak. Nobody wants to be in Michigan. Kudos to UMich for still luring so many wealthy students there to spend four years of their prime in a cold, grey and declining place.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/12/22/census-michigan-population-drops/69744139007/[/quote]
A school's attractiveness to potential students has little or nothing to do with the economic prospects of the state the school is located in. Nobody who is considering U of M is giving any thought to the fact that Flint is a post-industrial wasteland. OOS students will have very little interaction with the state outside of Ann Arbor, other than the Detroit airport.

I don't know if you're the same poster, but there's someone on here who keeps posting about people moving out of Michigan, its economic problems etc., like that is somehow relevant to someone from McLean applying to U of M. It's a bizarre take.

There is some demographic of students who will be turned off by really cold weather, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, I don't think weather has anything more than a marginal effect on what schools people pick. Financial questions and academics are much, much more important. The number of people picking Alabama over U of M because of the weather is probably in the single digits.  [/quote]

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