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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public university tiers are a fake construct beyond a flagship is a flagship. Same experience, same partying, same rah-rah sports, same rich kids in frat and sorority life, same smart kids at the top, somewhat unmotivated kids at the bottom, same career and grad school outcomes. If schools like Indiana, Alabama and Clemson offer your family a boatload of merit money take it. Michigan is not worth a premium. Nobody is impressed by Michigan undergrad no matter how many times insecure Michigan alums and parents parrot otherwise for years on end on every message board.[/quote]

I think you are wrong.  There are some publics - Cal-Berkeley, Michigan - a few others we can debate the list - that are viewed differently.  It probably does not end up making much of a difference for many students but it can.  Take one example - Michigan is probably in the top 5 schools in putting undergrads into Wall Street IB Analyst positions.  Now is that (or other examples) important to you - maybe maybe not.  But I don't think it's correct to say Michigan and Alabama are the same - nothing against Alabama.[/quote]

Right but considering the size of Michigan, such a fraction of a % really take advantage of the big blue pipeline into IB / MBB and FAANG (and with the last one Illinois would place as well)

So you prove what pp’s are saying.

Michigan is pointless for the majority of kids that attend there. It doesn’t provide anything different than a different public school with better weather and more chill lifestyle would provide

Out of 8k students per class, only 1k see a difference vecsuse only 1/8 have the drive plus grades.

The other 7k would be better off at cu-Boulder or Clemson/Alabama 
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Are you talking about instate or out-of-state students? Because, it would be a really tough sell to me as a parent in, say, Rochester Hills, Michigan, to pay for one of those schools you mentioned, rather than sending my kids to Ann Arbor. [/quote]

This isn’t remotely true. Colorado and Alabama are subpar schools. Look at the admissions stats for both. They are way below Michigan.  For all the hard science majors - especially engineering, Michigan is well above almost every State school in the country. Michigan has a great business school and places well. It is an established pipeline for medical and law school.

Colorado and Alabama and not even in the same galaxy as Michigan. [/quote]

Finally, someone has stated the obvious. [/quote]

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