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RE: Front Page of The Grand Rapids Press: GVSU Has Overtaken WMU
(01-10-2018 05:50 PM)Chipdip2 Wrote: (01-08-2018 09:00 PM)okgc Wrote: That article was also Sunday front page of the Kalamazoo Gazette
This publication still exists?
They just cherry pick articles off Mlive syndication. It was in Mlive GR Press, click, we put it in the Mdead Kalamazoo Gazette.
Biggest reason for the increase. GR is a rapidly growing city. If your kids can commute to a 4 year school your bill is half of what staying on campus is. It’s all about the commuter population.
Dutchies by nature are cheap. If Uter can save the VanHoogendort household $$ by commuting to Calvin, Aquinas, Cornerstone, Davenport, or Grand Valley that is what they’ll do. Lot of Dutchies in that area.
Western isn’t competing for commuters. KVCC is our commuter school, with 11,000 students, many who transfer to Western for their last two years. Western is competing for students who want “the college experience” i.e. MSU. If a kid gets accepted at Western and MSU the Sparty’s win every time because the over all college experience is better.
GVSU is pulling from all over the state. They are killing WMU in the Detroit market, too. To say they are just a commuter school is an old way of thinking.
As for the 'college experience', please define that in the context of what a 17-18 year old kid wants. Things have changed, rapidly, in the past decade as to what constitutes a 'college experience'. This isn't the 80's and 90's anymore.
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