<p>I attended U of M Dearborn and I don’t really understand the context of your question. In fact, you seem to be somewhat ignorant of the tepid connection between the two universities that actually exists. </p>
<p>For example, my German 101 class at Dearborn was taught by an instructor who taught the section at both Dearborn and Ann Arbor. The classes were so similarly structured that she actually offered our class the ability to take our midterm and final exams at her Ann Arbor section if it offered some type of proximity advantage. </p>
<p>I understand your frustration with the intellectual temperature of the student base at Dearborn. Indeed, you will not find as many high capacity or discerning students at Dearborn as you will at Ann Arbor. Nonetheless, there do exist some very bright students around campus, and so it is rather crass and insipid to reduce the entire profile of the student body as being beneath the “brand of the University of Michigan”.</p>