<p>How hard is it for Out of state students to make friends on campus at Michigan? Please tell me more than the generic, as long as you are involved in clubs and activities : ]</p>
<p>Dude, are you serious with this question? It's not like OOS kids are in-human that in state kids won't be friends with them.</p>
<p>Out of my friends here, I hang out with a kid from Michigan and a kid from NY the most.</p>
<p>I'm OOS and I've had a blast so far. As long as you get out there it shouldn't be a problem at all.</p>
<p>the kids in your hall will be from all over the place, i hang out with three kids from my hall freshman year the most and will be living with them junior year... one of them was actually one of my best friends in elementary school but I never really hung out with him beyond middle school. Another kid is a rich kid from bloomfield hills, the third guy is his roommate who is from chicago.</p>
<p>Like... one out of three kids you bump into daily is from OOS. How hard can it be?</p>
<p>Is this a joke? The school has 25k+ people in it.</p>
<p>wow, thanks for all the friendly responses!
I just wanted to make sure, because I've heard at other state colleges this is not the case</p>
<p>Yellow_Jackets, Michigan is very diverse. At most state schools, 90% of the students are in-staters. Schools like Michigan, UVa, Wisconsin and GT are the exceptions. Here's a look at the in-state/out-of-state breakup at other elite state universities:</p>
<p>College of William and Mary: 68%-32%
Georgia Institutate of Technology: 71%-29%
Indiana University-Bloomington: 70%-30%
Michigan-State University: 92%-8%
Ohio State University-Columbia: 90%-10%
Pennsylvania State University: 77%-23%
University of California-Berkeley: 90%-10%
University of California-Los Angeles: 95%-5%
University of Florida: 95%-5%
University of Georgia: 90%-10%
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign: 93%-7%
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 83%-17%
University of Texas-Austin: 96%-4%
University of Virginia: 72%-28%
University of Washington: 86%-14%
University of Wisconsin-Madison: 70%-30%</p>
<p>At Michigan, 65% are in-staters. The remaining 35% come from each of the other 51 states and terretories and from over 100 countries. That in of itself does not make Michigan diverse. Afterall, if the majority of Michigan's OOS student population came from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, I would not consider the University "diverse". However, there are over 3,000 undergrads who hail from the East coast, another 1,500 who come from the South and another 1,000 from the West Coast. Furthermore, there are close to 1,500 students who come from foreign countries. All in all, over 7,000 undergrads come from very varried and diverse backgrounds.</p>