| Danas, Michigan's state population and economy have been steadily declining since the early 70s. And yet, Michigan has far out-paced all other universities in growth of endowment over the last 20 years.
"Are you implying that schools like UChicago, Northwestern, WUSTL, Stanford, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Carleton, Oberlin, Emory, Duke, Rice all have less than 14% of their student bodies coming from the northeastern states? That seems improbable to me."
No Gellino, I am implying that the percentage of undergrads from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic at most small private elites outside of the Noprtheast and Mid Atlantic does not exceed 25%. And Michigan, a huge state university with obligations to maintain a large in-state population still managed to hang with the private elites. That is pretty impresive. Even schools like Northwestern, Chicago, Stanford and Notre Dame only have 20%-25% coming from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Michigan's 14% is definitely impressive considering its size. |