Why do UVA and Michigan attract such affluent student bodies?
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Anonymous
Are you just making things up? Wisconsin has a number of Fortune 500 companies and closely held corps. It has the paper industry, SC Johnson, Miller Coors, Harley Davidson, Rockwell, Fiserv, Kohls, Johnson Controls, Oshkosh Corp, the biotech industry in Madison. I could go on and on. Not everyone with money goes to Chicago, but I am nit surprised that some ignorant DCUM poster jumps to this conclusion. Milwaukee and Madison have a number of beautiful wealthy areas and suburbs by the lakes that make everything in the DMV look like a dump. There is no shortage of money or wealth here. Sorry that blows your narrative. |
Anonymous
NOVA has a lot of “low” millionaires; WI actually has quite a few high millionaires because they have actual industries. |
Anonymous
| UVA is really expensive both out of state and instate. It attracts people who can afford it |
Anonymous
| Michigan is as blue collar as Wisconsin is. |
Anonymous
| A lot of wealthy boarding school kids at UVA, according to our NOVA daughter. |
Anonymous
There are rich people everywhere in the US: Surgeons Top Attorneys Real Estate Owners Pro Sports Stars/College Football Coaches CEOs 200K+ Each Married Professionals Etc. Etc. The absolute amount of HHI you need to hit varies by state but so does the local cost of living Michigan and Wisconsin state thresholds for 1% HHI are in the low $600Ks. For the top states it's above $1M. |
Anonymous
| I've always wondered how the NYT purported to know income of all students (not just federal aid recipients) if they don't have aid. How did they get income information and link it to a school? |
Anonymous
+1 Still waiting for a link to this. |
Anonymous
| I’m not a UVA booster, but the bashers don’t want to recognize UVA’s historical importance/prestige and its many quality programs, including graduate ones. Many in the NE are happy to send their kids to the school. |
Anonymous
From the article- The researchers tracked about 30 million students born between 1980 and 1991, linking anonymized tax returns to attendance records from nearly every college in the country. |
Anonymous
Who is giving them Social Security numbers for 30 million people? |
Anonymous
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UVa has always attracted wealthy students from its founding. When UVa was first established by Thomas Jefferson, the state of Virginia didn't fund the school (in fact many legislators were against its founding), so when it first opened, UVa was the most expensive college/university in the U.S. -- more expensive than Harvard and Yale. The only students who could afford to attend UVa back then were the sons from wealthy families, mostly from the South. After the great fire that burned down the Rotunda in 1895, the state started to fund the university, but at that point, UVa had already obtained the reputation for being a school for the wealthy. That's why up north, UVa has a connection with the Ivies. For example, UVa alums can join the Yale Club:
https://www.yaleclubnyc.org/affiliates/uva And UVa and Yale host the oldest alumni polo match in America: https://www.harrimancup.org |
Anonymous
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Even back in 1960s, UVa attracted the sons of NYC's prominent families.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/11/15/big-three-now-enroll-45-of/ |
Anonymous
Yes, there are a lot of boarding school kids at UVa. Among my friends were folks who went to St. Paul's, Philips Exeter, Lawrenceville, Hotchkiss, Choate, Deerfield Academy, and Woodberry Forest -- as well as Wellington (in England) and TASIS (in Switzerland). |
Anonymous
| Both these schools have tons of out of state students. With the insane competition for private T20s, schools like Michigan and UVA have benefitted by sweeping up affluent kids that missed out on the Ivy/T15 sweepstakes. |