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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prestige isn’t much of a motivator in the state of Michigan. There are a few upscale suburbs & a few upscale private schools where more than a handful of people care about college prestige. The vast majority of students are perfectly content to go to Michigan State, Central Michigan, Wayne State, and so on. For the past decade, a “hot” college in Michigan has been Grand Valley State University, which has over 25,000 students. Probably none of the students there picked it due to anything resembling prestige.

In other words, this isn’t a state where all bright students, or even all valedictorians, aspire to attend U of Michigan. They don’t DISlike it, they just think other colleges suit their needs just fine. Most people tend to see U of Michigan as a big place with a famous football team, with an abundance of left-leaning New Yorkers (not exactly a group everybody in the state is dying to hang out with).

So, those who dismiss U of Michigan due to its acceptance percentage are ignorant of its limited appeal in-state. Most people in the state would be baffled as to why anybody would see ANY college as a source of personal prestige, & why people several states away are obsessing over that big school over in Ann Arbor. [/quote]

The UMich boosters are mostly out of state people who couldn't get into many fine schools in or near their home states whether it's north east or California, and have to settle in a state that locals don't really like them that much.[/quote]

And yet the school is still ranked higher than any university in DC or Virginia.  I’ll give you Johns Hopkins for MD. [/quote]

US News ranking is not exact math. A few spots up or down is not statistically significant.[/quote]
Math for what? What does it even measure?[/quote]

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