<p>NamelessStatistic (^ post #34),</p>
<p>I think you wildly overestimate how many OOS students Michigan public universities have drawn in the past, apart from the University of Michigan which as you correctly note has a very strong brand and is continuing to attract record numbers of OOS applicants year after year. </p>
<p>Moreover, there is exactly one public university in the city of Detroit. That’s Wayne State which draws few if any OOS students, and at this point few from outside the city of Detroit and its immediate suburbs where generally people have a more realistic assessment of what’s going on in the city, what the bankruptcy means and what it does not mean. I short, I think your comments are wide of the mark. I don’t think Detroit’s bankruptcy changes anything as far as higher education in Michigan is concerned.</p>
<p>Oh, and by the way, anyone who knows anything about the city of Detroit, including anyone who lives in Michigan, has known for years that the city is “poor, dilapidated and crime ridden.” I don’t think that comes as news to one single person in the state of Michigan. Not one.</p>