<p>You are the one that bring up the African American point and now you are complaining other people responding to your false claim? What a contructive discussion. You also keep trying to confuse others with City of Detroit and Metro Detroit area, or you are just confused yourself where the boundary of Detroit City is?
You are mixing other cities and other counties in your argument while we are talking about City of Detroit and DPS.</p>
<p>Federal judges have announced in June that race should not be a criteria in the admission process, although the president is trying to pursade the schools to consider it as a way to maintain diversity. It seems the advantage being a URM will be lowered.</p>
<p>Detroit’s problems -> Metro Detroit -> state of Michigan -> University of Michigan</p>
<p>All of them are intertwined. If you don’t think a distressed Detroit has any impact on the university you’re wrong, period. I didn’t say the university is doing bad, it is doing great! But we should all care about Detroit bouncing back because its problems do the university and state of Michigan no favors.</p>
<p>By your logic, why not we take it further?
Detroit’s problem -> Metro Detroit -> State of Michigan -> United States -> The World -> University of Zimbabwe</p>
<p>All of them are interwined. If you don’t think a distressed Detroit has any impact on the University of Zimbabwe you’re wrong, period. I didn’t say the university is doing bad, it is doing great! But the Zimbabwe population should all care about Detroit bouncing back because its problems do the University of Zimbabwe and the world no favors.</p>
<p>bearcats is right…again!</p>
<p>as a Michigan alum, detroit’s problem is lower in importance on my priority list than the stain on the outside of my office window, and rightfully so.</p>
<p>If anything, Detroit going under is great. It serves as a cautionary tale for corrupt, under-productive and union-infested cities like Chicago and Cleveland of the world, because they are well on their way.</p>
<p>It is better be bankrupted than sucking money from the State government to cover their holes. For that, it has a more positive effect to the whole State.</p>
<p>By the way, now I worry the universe (not the University) will be in deep trouble since Detroit has failed. LOL.</p>
<p>^Sorry I didn’t mention the universe. My knowledge base only extends to the world. </p>
<p>Bahhh such difficult concepts.</p>
<p>LOL i love your comment on Zimbabwe bearcats! OP don’t listen to alopez, he clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Michigan will get along fine whether or not Detroit is bankrupt. You have nothing to worry about. I would stay focus on where you want to go. If you have made up your mind on attending Michigan, don’t let the problems of Detroit deter you from applying.</p>
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<p>Black and White neighborhoods don’t even bleed into each other in Detroit. You think illiteracy in the city is going to cause illiteracy in the neighboring cities? </p>
<p>You’re clearly not from SE Michigan and don’t know anything about it.</p>
<p>University of Michigan is nearly a private school (only a small portion of the funding comes from the state of Michigan). Just don’t concern yourself with Detroit’s problems. They aren’t Ann Arbor’s problems and they aren’t the University of Michigan’s problems. Bearcat’s University of Zimbabwe analogy is not that far off.</p>
<p>Honestly, parts of the Detroit or the surrounding area even offers advantages. The Ford Museum (not in Detroit but very close by) is an excellent museum, and the Detroit Institute of Arts is worth visiting. The wayne county Airport is a major airport, so you can usually get anywhere without lay-overs. It is also not very crowded…obviously it was built for at least twice as many people as use it.</p>
<p>There are great live music groups that come to Detroit. I’ve seen Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, Jane’s Addiction and Alice in Chains all live. Every male was thoroughly frisked before going into the Alice in Chains concert. Aside from that, it was a fun time.</p>
<p>^ There were even great concerts in Windsor this year just across the river.</p>
<p>“Every male was thoroughly frisked before going into the Alice in Chains concert.”</p>
<p>I wouldn’t expect anything less. :-)</p>
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<p>Umm… are you 9 years old?</p>
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<p>Umm… where do you think Detroit is losing population to? They sure aren’t flying to Hawaii.</p>
<p>Alopez, in case you were unaware, bearcats is an IB. I HIGHLY doubt you are more knowledgeable than him when it comes to the economy. Anyways his point is perfectly valid, where does it stop? Things aren’t nearly as connected as you make it seem. Ann Arbor is thriving, that’s an empirical fact. If you’ve got any evidence to support your assertions (other than leveling personal insults on the other posters), we would love to see them. As someone who’s lived in SE Michigan all my life, I find your posts so absurd and devoid of truth that it has started to seriously annoy me.</p>
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<p>alopez14 is 16 years old. Please keep that in mind as you berate him.</p>
<p>@rjkofnovi For whatever reason, I just assumed he was a college senior. That does make more sense though.</p>
<p>No. He is a high school student according to another thread.</p>
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<p>(i) He’s an investment banker? Wow. That’s neat, while also being completely unrelated to this topic.
(ii) What is your level of education that you fail to see the connection between a state, its flagship public university, and its most populous city/region? This thread is proof of how connected they are, in that an out of state applicant here’s Detroit is in shambles and assumes the state and the University’s proximity put it a risk too. He’s not alone.
(iii) Ann Arbor is thriving.
(iv) Evidence to support what assertions? Like 2 of 3 M grads leaving the state when they get a degree, 8.9% unemployment rate, our largest city is bankrupt and the most violent in the nation, the Metro Detroit region economy is sagging, from 2000-2010 Michigan was the only state to lose population. Yup, things are fantastic here!</p>
<p>All of the bad news coming out of the state of Michigan and Detroit absolutely harms the school’s perception, among other things. We are a public school, supported by our tax base. Remember that.</p>