Michigan is a school for rich people

[hungry]

I can't say it's always been this way, but they are fairly close now, at least for in-state. $339 difference in in-state tuition.

MSU: Cost of Attendance, In-state: $27,241, Out-of-state: $51,068
Tuition and Fees In-state: $14,063 Out-of-state: $37,890

Michigan: Cost of Attendance, In-state: $28,776, Out-of-state: $59,784
Tuition and Fees In-state: $14,402 Out-of-state: $45,410

Yeah. I've heard that MSU's tuition has went up A LOT since I attended in the early 90's

 

[Michchamp]

This thread talks about how Michigan is a school for rich people as if this is news or something. This has pretty much been like this my entire life. Back when I went to university, I started at CMU, which was fairly inexpensive as things go. Then I transferred to MSU and going there was just a little more than twice as much. I checked into how much it would cost to attend Michigan and it was just a little over twice as much as I and my family (I got a small amount of help from my father) was paying to attend MSU.

On the Native American thing; I am 1/8th Native American also. You can't just check a box and get financial help on that, though. You have to be able to prove you are an official member of a tribe. If you aren't already part of a tribe, a person would have a very difficult time getting accepted into one. My mother's cousin tried to do this, he was 25% Native American and they wouldn't talk to him.

This might change with the DNA testing that is widely available now. You could just do a DNA analysis and prove that you are a certain % of a certain race. 1/8th was the cut-off for Native Americans when I attended.

that's interesting. I had always heard getting credit for Native American ancestry was easy, but it makes sense that there is a huge hurdle to qualifying for it. otherwise a lot of people would abuse it.

from what I've read about the conditions on reservations, actual tribal members really do deserve the help. Those of partial ancestry who grew up off the reservation & more or less white, with normal schools and social services are not as disadvantaged.

 

[thewolverines24]

Nice to see the hurdles for qualifying for Native American scholarships are in place. I never looked too far into it because I would not have been able to live with myself if I took a scholarship for it.