Doesn't matter. UCLA is 16 miles from downtown LA, CalTech is about 13 miles. I had to look it up because of the now multiple Detroit apologists who are acting

Doesn't matter. UCLA is 16 miles from downtown LA, CalTech is about 13 miles. I had to look it up because of the now multiple Detroit apologists who are acting like Brentwood is on the moon and Pasadena is on Mars to make sure I wasn't completely losing my mind. UM is 43 miles from downtown Detroit, and there isn't some sort of express route guaranteed to be traffic-free that you can take to get there. Like I said before, that's about the same distance from Philly to Princeton, and no one is talking about how essential Princeton is to the city of Philadelphia. I get that it's somewhat different, but it's also not that different. Detroit lags behind most major US cities (including many that are smaller) when it comes to higher education. I'm not bashing the city when I say that, it's just a fact.