I did read your post carefully. You stated that you wouldn’t pay top dollar to attend Michigan for any undergraduate degree, even one in the top five.
Please cite that post and the line you are referring to.I never said that. Please read carefully before you put words into someone’s mouth that were never stated.
Maybe I’m seeing this thread differently from some others because I don’t have an emotional attachment to either of the two schools that the OT is asking about.
I’m not sure that a back-and-forth about endowment sizes and state funding % and whether or not that’s a big number or not is necessarily helpful to the OP’s decision process.
I agree. I thought the same. But endowment size can affect how much $ is given in aid, the size of classes, the professors salaries etc. So it can be a factor. For most people, they look at their options, the costs of each and then make a choice. In this case, the schools are pretty equal in terms of reputation.
In the OP’s case, the 100K is huge. So I doubt he’ll be weighing the endowment. LOL.
“I wouldn’t pay a premium for UMichigan. On the other hand, there are schools which I would pay an extra 100K.”
Your exact words
That’s not what I said, in fact I said the opposite see below.
Also when quoting someone it’s customary to use the quote feature. Also helps to avoid misquoting someone.
Ok. Glad you clarified yourself in admitting if the program at Michigan were top 5, like in engineering and business (among others) you would pay $100,000 more to attend said school. Of course your child would have to be interested in the top five program.
Better to quote then misquote someone as you did. To quote you can highlight the text then respond to the person. It’s easy. Happy to help and I think it’s listed under help also.
University of Michigan also has 50,000 undergraduates drawn from a state with about 10 million population. Since California has about four times the population, that would mean that the UC equivalent in terms of undergraduate student population (about 200,000) is all of the UCs except UCR and UCM.
Even if we consider only the in-state undergraduates, University of Michigan enrollment relative to the state population would probably be equivalent to about four of the larger UC campuses relative to the state population.
Michigan has no where near 50,000 undergraduates.
32,000 undergrads. But they also plan to reduce the 2022-2023 class size by about 500+/- freshman.
Michigan, comparatively, funds the university very little compared to other state flagships such as cal or UT Austin. I think that is partly why there are so many out of staters here.
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I think the OP got scared off but didn’t stop this thread…
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Well, I submitted my deposit at UNC initially but I’ve been flipped to go with UMich and I put in the UMich deposit last night. It seems the brand of UM, strength of programs in fields of interest like econ, stats, and data sci, and opportunities for freshmen and sophomores are stronger overall.
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Make sure you dress warmly 4 years from now, because I’m sitting here at graduation freezing my behind off. 
Oh and GO BLUE! (heard that about 10 Million times this weekend).
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I don’t know that that is true if you look at state funding per in-state FTE undergraduate. The bigger difference is Michigan has a much higher percentage of OOS undergraduate students than the UCs or UT Austin. Those states would not allow 50% OOS.
Congratulations!! I hope you love it here. Go Blue!
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