Why do so few Michigan residents apply to UM?

@roman, Despite the arguable return on invest on college education in general these days, the one circumstance where it’s without question still capable of lifting people into a higher economic class is for poor kids getting degrees from elite schools. No one in the lower class is thinking “this elite school that can lift me out of poverty for the first time in my life comes across as cold, screw it!”

Yeah, i can’t afford to dress as well as the “middle class” kids from $2 million sillicon valley homes. Some of them wouldn’t give me the time of day. What an unbearable loss! /s

Way to generalize 40,000 people. If 90% of them are ‘economically elite,’ there you have thousands of others to befriend. Truly most from the upper class do not care though. We’re wolverines, first and foremost