Every person is different. Our gifted kid wouldn’t even look at the Harvard campus while in Boston on his east coast trip and bypassed Yale, plus would not finish the Princeton application. Of course, coming from Wisconsin, Michigan was never on the radar ( no reason to look across the lake at a school similar to our own flagship). I wonder where the survey participants are from. Likely heavily northeast. I can see why kids would go for Michigan- they’ve heard of it and it is not in their region but not too far.