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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a prior poster.  Michigan has football and Ann Arbor going for it.  It also has great name recognition with the Proles.  Apart from the Ivys (and most Proles have no f-ing clue who the Ivys are apart from H-Y-P....I mean what's Brown apart from a color and what the heck is a Dartmouth??), your average Prole frame of college reference revolves around football.  Big Ten and SEC especially.  So Michigan checks that box.  The drama and lawsuits relating to admissions a generation ago conjured up the image of Michigan as academically elite.  The Big Chill of a generation before that made it cool.

But it's basically just a big state school with good football and a decent college town.  Everything else is just hype.

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Pretty much. It gets the hype because it has literally hundreds of thousands of insecure non-resident alums who boomeranged back to LA, NYC and Washington after graduation. If Ann Arbor is such an amazing town and Michigan such a wonderful place to spend four (4) years in, why didn't the alums remain there after graduation? We all know why. It's boring, the weather is awful, the locals are creepy, and they couldn't wait to leave. [/quote]

The locals are creepy?[/quote]

Provincial and creepy, yes. The state of Michigan is a dying backwater. They are literally bribing college grads to move back for a year with $10,000 checks. Seriously.[/quote]

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