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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's just nothing unique at University of Michigan that is not available at a college in a state with better climate and lots of growth. It's a really overcrowded public university growing fast to cash in. It's located in a boring flyover country town in the middle of nowhere. It has the worst weather of any university in the top 50 (it will be in the 20s and 30s until April). And the state is crumbling and stagnant; smart residents can't flee fast enough. If University of Mississippi was suddenly in the top 30 college, would you all try to convince yourself it's great? That's basically Michigan right now. It's ranked highly because of it's legacy reputation and name rec (sports), not because it's a unique and special undergraduate setting.[/quote]
You've posted this critique a number of times, and it really doesn't seem relevant to students picking U of M. OOS students don't have any real desire to live in Michigan anyway, and never really have (I attended U of M as an undergraduate in the '90's, when Michigan was doing well, but I none of my OOS friends ever intended to live there after graduation). So, the fact that Detroit is a dump is meaningless to them. And Ann Arbor is a perfectly nice college town that has everything college students are looking for during their 4 years there.

I mean, there are plenty of good or great schools in far worse places where students can't really venture off campus (I'm looking at you, [b]Yale and U. Of Pennsylvania[/b]), that don't have any trouble attracting students. [/quote]

But they are Ivies.  Michigan is not.  I don't know why OP thinks there is any hype to Michigan at all.  I certainly wouldn't pay for it.[/quote]
Good for you. But some posters on this thread seem to be setting up a strawman of the school.

It's a large state school with a high level of academic rigor, with a strong NCAA football and basketball culture, set in one of the better college towns, in a cold, northern state. That may or may not appeal to you enough to pay OOS tuition. But, Michigan doesn't seem to have any problems filling its in-state or OOS slots with smart kids.  [/quote]

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