And you’ll also more likely run into Tom Brady and the like. There’s a lot of talented athletes that help to make the college a whole lot more fun than some others.
And everyone agrees that lower ses students and sometimes talented urms from underperforming schools in the home state get into umich. And good for them. I also wouldn’t classify them as academically inferior or worse to bump into before you know them, only by test scores. The whole test prep advantage etc. And simply just a lousy way to look at the world as far as I’m concerned. There is some educational value in difference. Wait to you get a job. You better learn how to get along with these dummies. They’ll be the ones doing your annual review. Or they are your PhD advisor or professor.
And the concept that a school is better because there are more brainiacs haven’t set one foot in the cs or physics or math classes at the higher end public unis. If you did you would never say that again.
Rich people think so called elite schools are better because of centuries of excellence embedded into the public consciousness. These schools are fantastic. And because most rich people went to college when the academic gulf was wider between these choices. And they can afford it with nary a concern.