Michigan vs. Wisconsin

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in the Northeast, the Midwest, & the West. If you don’t see a difference you aren’t paying attention. Or maybe your idea of Midwest is Chicago, which is clearly an anomaly.

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The Midwest vibe is also different than southern “bless your heart” politeness. It’s difficult to explain but definitely a thing.

It’s a different form of passive-aggressiveness.

Maybe sometimes. But it also means clerks say hello at the checkout counter and wish you a nice day like they actually mean it. Or when you're merging on the highway, people stop to let you in instead of speeding up and cutting you off. That's not passive aggressive, it's just nice.

DP. And most Midwesterners aren't caught up in the rat race which is a refreshing change. They want their kids to go to good schools but you won't find them obsessing about college rankings.

Right. It’s awful here. So unhealthy for kids and parents. Constant obsessing and bs over schools.

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This thread is such BS. I’m from CA and the drivers are much worse there than DC—in both LA and the Bay Area. It’s also asinine to suggest that parents in Ann Arbor and Chicago and Madison and Minneapolis aren’t uptight and striving about college process. It’s a city thing. My kid is at Michigan and the MI parents are just as striving, as are my midwestern friends.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is such BS. I’m from CA and the drivers are much worse there than DC—in both LA and the Bay Area. It’s also asinine to suggest that parents in Ann Arbor and Chicago and Madison and Minneapolis aren’t uptight and striving about college process. It’s a city thing. My kid is at Michigan and the MI parents are just as striving, as are my midwestern friends.

The world is larger than your bubble.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is such BS. I’m from CA and the drivers are much worse there than DC—in both LA and the Bay Area. It’s also asinine to suggest that parents in Ann Arbor and Chicago and Madison and Minneapolis aren’t uptight and striving about college process. It’s a city thing. My kid is at Michigan and the MI parents are just as striving, as are my midwestern friends.

I live in South Florida. We have all of you beat with the percentage of bad drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:Not a MSU grad or fan, but I lived in Michigan for a long time, & have seen the Wolverine hubris up close. You are just hurt that your egos have been exposed.

Michigan grad who lived in Michigan and aware of the culture. Two indisputable facts;
- U of M arrogance can be beyond belief. Yes, there are excellent programs, but let's stop treating it like a religious site.

- State is a party school. Unlike Michigan, most graduates stay in-state and pretty much dominate several fields. At least in my child's HS, all the mean girls and future fratbros went to State.

Kinda similar at my Michigan HS save that many of my classmates, who were African American and not in the mean girl crowd, went to MSU. This was a few years after Magic Johnson attended so the school held a particular allure regardless of academic focus. Aside from that, the more academically oriented folks headed to Michigan and the more party oriented folks went to MSU aka State.

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Mich State grads leave the state more than they used to, but the diaspora is more Midwestern than Northeastern (like U of Mich grads).

There are tons of bars in the nightlife districts of Chicago that cater to Big 10 grads. My sources tell me Michigan State grads are one of the largest alumni contingents in these bars. That’s no small achievement considering the number of beer-guzzling grads from Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, & Purdue in Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is such BS. I’m from CA and the drivers are much worse there than DC—in both LA and the Bay Area. It’s also asinine to suggest that parents in Ann Arbor and Chicago and Madison and Minneapolis aren’t uptight and striving about college process. It’s a city thing. My kid is at Michigan and the MI parents are just as striving, as are my midwestern friends.

The world is larger than your bubble.

Is that your midwestern friendliness?

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Anonymous wrote:Wisconsin is Michigan’s number 1 back up. Nobody who gets into both chooses Wisconsin. Not saying it isn’t a good school though.

Wisconsin is also less diverse racially and geographically. It has virtually no African American students.

I went to Wisconsin over Michigan and would do it again.

I mean, that’s great. But since you didn’t go to both you have no basis for comparison.

DP, but if we're going to restrict this thread those who attended both schools, it would be a pretty small universe.

^^LOL

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Wisconsin is the Detroit of public schools. It was elite back in the 1960s and 70s, a peer of Michigan, but quickly fell with a fall in state funding. Now it’s an above average state flagship with a 60% acceptance. Much closer to Michigan State than a elite like Umich.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the deal with the troll who hates Wisconsin? Look, kid, it’s really obvious. You just revived an old thread in another attempt to start a Wisconsin - Michigan fight. Get a hobby.

Yeah, and at 3:35 in the morning. What a sad life.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a huge difference in the towns/campuses... WI is far superior in my opinion.

Madison is much better than Ann Arbor? How so?

Well, the huge lake for one.

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Anonymous wrote:35-7. Go Blue!

After cheating of course.

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Cmon - it's not close. Michigan has Ross and several other top 10 programs. Michigan attracts the best of the best students.

Sorry, Wisconsin doesn't. The question isn't worth answering. They aren't equivalent.

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Anonymous wrote:Cmon - it's not close. Michigan has Ross and MANY other top 10 programs. Michigan attracts the best of the best students.

Sorry, Wisconsin doesn't. The question isn't worth answering. They aren't equivalent.

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UW-Madison has better partiez and girlz than Michigan, and outside of the prestige-obsessed striver crowd that overindexes on boards like this one, most people, including most hiring managers, don't perceive a huge difference between the two schools.