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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The university is 50/50 instate/OOS, and the major differences between the populations in terms of income and ethnicity (with OOS having a lot of Jews and Asians from the coasts and Chicago) create some mild tensions in the social dynamics.”

What the hell does this statement mean? Is Michigan loaded with DC type students? 
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NP.  No.  DMV kids are scarce compared to very affluent NYC metro kids, LA kids, Chicago kids.  Yes, a lot of them are from very wealthy families.  Is that what you meant by "DC type students"?  Rich?

There is a longstanding trope that affluent NYCers are enmeshed with the Greek fraternities.  Maybe that could be reinforced by legacy status.

My kid is in-state and his friends are OOS.  He refers to himself as their "pet Michigander".  His friends are an impressive crowd of mainly engineers, and they are good kids.  Three semesters in they are happy and thriving.  I expect they will mostly leave for corporate/big money jobs far from Ann Arbor.  My kid wants to stay because he enjoys his life here.  He's been to Europe 4 times already and to Mexico and to NYC, DC, Boston, Atlanta, etc.  So he's seen other places.  Home is home. And we like fall and winter.

For those who don't know Michigan and the Detroit suburbs well, a huge number of in-staters at Michigan come from Oakland County which is very similar to Montgomery County.  Educated, affluent, fairly politically moderate (by today's crazy standards) whether D or R.  There are also large educated immigrant communities here in the Detroit metro area: Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Ukrainian, Middle Eastern.  Our NMSF lists show that many of our top achievers here, like elsewhere, are also Asian and Southeast Asian. (My unscientific guess is that these are kids of U.S. grad school educated immigrant parents.) So it's incorrect to make too many assumptions about who might be from where, in-state vs. OOS.

I find that my kid has a nice balance of former high school acquaintances that he sees around campus and new friends from OOS.  I agree that one might have to work at it a bit.  I'm thinking blending probably comes with being an upper division student in a major or having specific extracurriculars where people can get to know total strangers.

I won't say more because now my kid reads DCUM.  Lol.  My ex-DMVness rubbed off on him.  He's happy at Michigan and I'm happy he's there.  OOSers are welcome as long as they are not snobby to locals.  We kinda know you have had more turns on the hamster wheel of life.  But that's not necessarily a good thing![/quote]

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