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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you a Michigan resident? What exactly is your beef, here?[/quote]

It's just astonishing a state flagship has been stolen from residents. State flagships are cultivated over centuries for residents, not carpetbaggers. It does not benefit the state of Michigan what-so-ever to give 25,000 seats at the undergraduate college to non-residents. 99% of these 25,000 flee the state immediately after graduation.

And spare me the ranking B.S. Nobody but pathetic insecure strivers give a darn about fake U.S. News rankings. And were UMich to become 75% in-state instead of 50-50, it wouldn't fall but a handful of spots. The university's power and clout is not dependent on obnoxious frat boys from Long Island and New Jersey.[/quote]

Hyperbole much?  Undergraduate matriculants are about 15,000 out of state. That means 15,000 students are instate.  UVA, for example, has only 17,000 undergraduates in total.  In reality, Michigan educates its highest achieving instate students much better than UVA. [/quote]

Such an amateur tactic. You sound quite juvenile and your motives are obviously suspect. U-M is a very large school, as all Big 10 schools are, so why are you comparing its enrollment to a relatively small flagship like Virginia? Berkley is also very large, at over 31,000. California taxpayers didn't care that, well, technically there are still more in-state students at Berkley than at smaller UVA. California taxpayers said make our flagships 80+ % in-state, period. Just as Wisconsin and Michigan taxpayers ought to do. 50-50 is a scam.[/quote]

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