<p>Roderick, class size at Michigan is not a problem. Obviously, LACs will have smaller classes and better faculty to student interaction. The difference between Michigan and private peers will be in the size of entry-level classes. At Michigan, they will typically be larger. However, intermediate and advanced level classes will not be larger and professors will be just as involved with undergrads.</p>
<p>idkididk, financial aid is not a weakness at Michigan…but it is certainly an area of improvement. In state students are very well taken care of, but OOS students get inconsistant treatment ranging from great to pathetic. International students get nothing.</p>
<p>alex, thanks for the input.</p>
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<p>is oos fa more based on need or merit or about even ?</p>
<p>I am not sure about the breakdown, but either way, it is not that great.</p>
<p>As a potential incoming freshman, my family has some concern about the location. How close is Ann Arbor from Detroit? We here, think of Detroit as ghetto/shady area and was wondering if that has any negative influences on Ann Arbor? Also, is there any real necessary to go to Detroit (besides airport, I guess?)</p>
<p>I also have a question. Around here, Michigan is notoriously known for having grads as teachers. How much does that actually happen? I mean, still has a great reputation, but it turns a few students to other schools. </p>
<p>Sorry if this has already been answered. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>“As a potential incoming freshman, my family has some concern about the location. How close is Ann Arbor from Detroit? We here, think of Detroit as ghetto/shady area and was wondering if that has any negative influences on Ann Arbor?”</p>
<p>South central LA is considered a ghetto/shady area by folks here in Michigan and is much closer to where you live currently than Ann Arbor is to Detroit. Does that have effect on our views of Santa Monica or West LA? Do you actually expect anyone to answer a silly question like that without a bit of sarcasm? Let me put it to you like this: I’d say overall the ENTIRE city of Ann Arbor is safer than Santa Monica, or/and the entire city of Los Angeles. You can literally walk anywhere within it’s boundaries and feel relatively safe day or night. Can you really say that where you live currently?</p>
<p>“Also, is there any real necessary to go to Detroit (besides airport, I guess?)”</p>
<p>No, you don’t ever have to go to Detroit. No one will ever put a gun to your head insisting that you do. Btw the airport is not in the city of Detroit either, so you don’t have to have nightmares about flying in or out. Geez.</p>
<p>“I also have a question. Around here, Michigan is notoriously known for having grads as teachers.”</p>
<p>I can confidently say that all teachers at Michigan are “notoriously” known to be grads. Geez…</p>
<p>Graduate students do not teach many classes. Roughly 3% of Michigan classes are taught by graduate students, but most of those classes are basic intro-level classes that can easily be taught by third or fourth year PhD students. </p>
<p>Graduate students primarily assist professors as they teach classes. Virtually all major research universities, including the likes of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Penn have graduate students assisting professors. </p>
<p>[Information</a> About Graduate Student Instructors at the University of Michigan](<a href=“http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/gsi-sa/teach.html]Information”>http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/gsi-sa/teach.html)</p>
<p>e5volcano, Ann Arbor is a good 40 miles away from Detroit’s bad neighborhoods. Crime never spills into Ann Arbor. The Detroit suburbs that surround Ann Arbor (Novi, Southfield, Bloomfield Hills etc…) tend to be very safe and quite affluent. As a city, Ann Arbor is one of the safest cities in the nation.</p>
<p>Also, Detroit’s airport (which is surprisingly nice and offers great connections to Paris, London, Amsterdam, JFK, O’Hare, LAX and SFO) is located closer to Ann Arbor than it is to Detroit, a mere 20 minutes drive from campus.</p>
<p>Thanks Alexandre, appreciate your reply.</p>
<p>I dear god hope that rjkofnovi doesn’t work for the University of Michigan since his attitude is poor</p>
<p>I’m sorry e5volcano for being so sarcastic. I am a lifetime resident of the Detroit area and I guess I’m a bit oversenstive. Your question was fair enough I suppose. I hope your fears of the Ann Arbor area have been alleviated.</p>
<p>Do not apologize rkj. You were responding to an asinine question. </p>
<p>e5volcano, presumably you are “smart” enough to get into UMich. Do yourself a favor and look at a MAP.</p>
<p>There’s not enough money in the world to make me move to LA. <em>shudder</em></p>
<p>tuition goes up pretty much exactly as the state allocation goes down. The graph is a near perfectly symmetrical X.</p>
<p>where’s “around here,” exactly? The grads teach our intro courses only – and they do a much better job than the faculty would, trust me. They’re on top of the research, enthusiastic, approachable, still love teaching, and really really care about their evaluations (unlike the tenured classes)</p>
<p>Actually, Michigan is big enough to keep subsidizing small departments and smaller classes when the LACs are cutting those like mad. Michigan hasn’t closed a single department, and has no plans of doing so. There are no furloughs for faculty, no downsizing of facilities, zip. Result of excellent accounting.</p>
<p>what on earth might your definition of diversity be? 10% have to be from Iowa??</p>
<p>Wish they would hand out more of their money to the students if they have so much!!</p>
<p>I hope Michigan becomes one of those few universities that meets 100% of demonstrated need. I do not think the University currently has enough wealth to do that, but it probably will in the next decade or so.</p>
<p>Michigan is terribly weak in their ability to process applications. April 15th or 22nd or the end of April is when they tell us decisions will be released—they say one, thing their website says another–the only real truth is that they are the only school I know of that releases decisions so late-ARROGANCE</p>
<p>Leaves a very bad impression on me. For a school to lose my so easily is a sad testamant to their attitude. The mighty have fallen in the past and they may find a time that they do not get such an influx of applicants that are willing to pay the most outrageous fee’s for a state school in the 50 states.</p>