<p>Detroit is being shown as poor, dilapidated and crime ridden and this has been very recently brought to the forefront of the public eye (probably why this article was written now) with the city bankruptcy. Isn’t obvious that when potential out of state students and their parents see CNN talking about the bankruptcy on on TV and showing the decrepit buildings and neighborhoods in Detroit, that maybe they are a little more hesitant to send their kids to any place even remotely associated with that city? As an outsider I can say that all the media coverage I have seen on Detroit has been negative, or at best it talks about groups trying to “turn around” the problems in the city (ie. counter drug and gang problems and work against poverty). This does not present a good image to potential students. As mentioned before schools like Ann Arbour will continue to do ok in drawing OOS students and retaining locals, because they have a strong brand name in academia, but the other universities around the city or smaller satellite cities and towns will suffer a drop in applications due to this negative press (whether it is overblown or not), in not just OOS students but also IS students (If you are regularly told that the area many of your IS universities are in is dangerous, that will discourage you from applying, no?).</p>