When you say elite university, you don't mean Michigan. Michigan is a good school, very good, but it's not U Chicago or Williams or MIT. Michigan is a huge state school, with thousands and thousands of students who would never ever get a consideration at a truly elite university. Certainly some of these kids who are having financial distress might have found a better fit with better financial aid at another school, but of course, the state college is supposed to be basically free to qualified students from that same state, and it is only our fucked up economic system preventing a return to that scenario. It's cute that the Michigan kids want to pretend they're at an elite university--and it's not really hurting anything--but they're as deluded as the Virginia students and Cal students and the rest of the public Ivy clowns.
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