<p>being an Asian would i fit into the community?</p>
<p>YES, DEFINITELY....so many Asians on campus. I will say it again, so many Asians on campus</p>
<p>Michigan has about 5,000 Asian students, between the undergrads and the graduate students. Besides, Ann Arbor is a liberal town, racial diversity is generally quite welcome.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor is such a nice change from west michigan, where I live, where the racial diversity is practically zero unless you go "inner city."</p>
<p>a lot of F*B's though...:-/</p>
<p>not that i'm racist against my own race but i'm not used to random chinese ppl talking to me in chinese assuming that i'm international or moved to the US 8 months ago or w/e lol</p>
<p>Lots of Asians, especially Chinese. Next is Korean. I don't know too many Japanese people here.</p>
<p>michigan is very diverse and liberal.</p>
<p>It's big enough that no matter who you identify with you'll be able to find a happy little niche to fit in.
Plenty of asians, everyone I know here in Michigan who's applying Ivy has UMich as their only safety.</p>
<p>PhatAlbert, where are you from?</p>
<p>i have a question. This summer i attended a program at Umich and i felt that there were a lot of black people there. Is this actually true or r just the people who do the bridge program(take classes from the summer) overwhelmingly black. No bias here. Just curious</p>
<p>Actually, as a whole, I would say the University of Michigan does not have enough African Americans. I think only 8% of Michigan students are African American.</p>
<p>UofM has students from 50 states and 117 foreign countries. according to princeton review, this is the michigan student body:</p>
<p>Enrollment: 24,677
Female: 51%
Out of State: 31%
International: 5%
African American: 8%
Asian: 12%
Caucasian: 64%
Hispanic: 5%
Native American: 1% </p>
<p>here's berkeley:</p>
<p>Enrollment: 22,880<br>
Female: 54%
Out of State: 11%
International: 3%
African American: 4%
Asian: 41%
Caucasian: 31%
Hispanic: 11%
Native American: 1%</p>
<p>Those numbers are explained by the fact that Berkeley can't use affirmative action and it is hamstrung by in-state quotas.</p>
<p>...but then again Michigan loses a lot of its diversity after the first year (especially among under-recruited groups). UM has the highest minority drop out rate of the USNWR top 50.</p>
<p>On the friendly half of the question... Everybody that I hang out with here is almost overly friendly (which is really nice). Plus, I run into people that I know all the time on campus so I'm hardly ever actually lonely. It's a big place, but you make it smaller.</p>
<p>why do people drop out of michigan after 1st year???</p>
<p>Well, not many people drop out of Michigan at all. 96% return for Sophomore year and close to 90% graduate eventually. But the reason people drop out is either financial or academic intensity.</p>
<p>Be in the RC..its as diversity friendly as it get.</p>
<p>If your on the Hill or North Campus.....who knows!?</p>
<p>KB, Michigan is diversity friendly, no matter the dorm. I have never heard of racial tensions on campus.</p>
<p>Alexandre, you must have been here before the days of BAMN. They have racial agitator extraordinaire Al Sharpton speaking on the steps of the grad library this week.</p>
<p>ugh...</p>
<p>Forgive my ignorance, but what is BAMN?</p>