what big Division 1 state university would you attend?

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Anonymous wrote:Minnesota.

St. Paul/Minneapolis is a great place. The school is really good in a whole host of things, and the people in the upper northwest are lovely.

What's Minnesota's calling card? I mean it seems like the best MN students just go to madison if they want a b10 experience and pay instate tuition.

Urban Campus?

I guess they could go to Michigan, if they want to pay the expensive out-of-state tuition. Otherwise, Minnesotans might prefer to go to their own flagship school for a fraction of the cost.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here.
Daughter wants to study math/finance/economics. Along those lines. Not sure what the end goal is but loves math.

Wants the big university experience. We're in DC so she'll get $10K a year through the TAG program to attend state school (not a huge amount but it's something).

NC State, not UNC.

yeah, the same state that just had a KKK rally in honor of trump's victory?

Do you really not understand that a handful of people at a klan rally are not representative of an entire state? I just read an article that discussed some racist graffiti at a California school. I guess you should cross Berkeley off your list too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Minnesota.

St. Paul/Minneapolis is a great place. The school is really good in a whole host of things, and the people in the upper northwest are lovely.

What's Minnesota's calling card? I mean it seems like the best MN students just go to madison if they want a b10 experience and pay instate tuition.

Urban Campus?

I guess they could go to Michigan, if they want to pay the expensive out-of-state tuition. Otherwise, Minnesotans might prefer to go to their own flagship school for a fraction of the cost.

but IIRC Minnesotans can pay the same to go to Wisco. So why go to MN? or does Wisco take the best MN students and the ones that stay instate are not as top?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Minnesota.

St. Paul/Minneapolis is a great place. The school is really good in a whole host of things, and the people in the upper northwest are lovely.

What's Minnesota's calling card? I mean it seems like the best MN students just go to madison if they want a b10 experience and pay instate tuition.

Urban Campus?

I guess they could go to Michigan, if they want to pay the expensive out-of-state tuition. Otherwise, Minnesotans might prefer to go to their own flagship school for a fraction of the cost.

but IIRC Minnesotans can pay the same to go to Wisco. So why go to MN? or does Wisco take the best MN students and the ones that stay instate are not as top?

Wisconsin is usually (but not always) first choice for both MN and WI students. Michigan does not get a high number of WI students because the schools are so similar and it would be difficult for a WI student rationalize paying twice as much to go to WI. All three are good flagships.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Minnesota.

St. Paul/Minneapolis is a great place. The school is really good in a whole host of things, and the people in the upper northwest are lovely.

What's Minnesota's calling card? I mean it seems like the best MN students just go to madison if they want a b10 experience and pay instate tuition.

Urban Campus?

I guess they could go to Michigan, if they want to pay the expensive out-of-state tuition. Otherwise, Minnesotans might prefer to go to their own flagship school for a fraction of the cost.

but IIRC Minnesotans can pay the same to go to Wisco. So why go to MN? or does Wisco take the best MN students and the ones that stay instate are not as top?

I can see a lot of reasons -
They would rather be in a city that is not "just" a college town (Madison is great, but let's be honest - it would have very little attraction if it weren't for the University. Minneapolis/St. Paul would remain pretty cool even if U of M left).
They are majoring in something like business/finance/marketing/etc. and want to take advantage of the Twin Cities' much more diverse economy for internship opportunities - lots of Fortune 500 and non-government/University related opportunities there. Madison, not so much.
They are concerned about future budget cuts/the growing conservatism in Wisconsin. Wisconsin universities have taken a huge cut because of Scott Walker, and that is concerning for a lot of people, myself included. Wisconsin's economy is also much more stagnant than Minnesota's.
This was probably more specific to my daughter, but she wanted to take advantage of U of M's direct admit program. At Minnesota, she was a direct admit into their school of business (which is very similarly ranked to Wisconsin's) so she could start taking major-related classes right away and didn't have to worry about apply to the b-school as a freshman or sophomore. Wisconsin doesn't do direct admit into their business/engineering/nursing schools, except for a very very small number of freshman (I think it was 50 for the business school) - you are admitted to the College of Liberal Arts and THEN apply to the specific college after your freshman or sophomore year. Whereas at Minnesota, you know when you are admitted to the university as a senior that you're guaranteed a spot in engineering/education/business/etc. and would have to really mess up once you get there to lose that spot.

(Disclaimer, we used to live in Wisconsin so we essentially paid in-state tuition for my DD to go to U of MN. I probably would not have paid OOS for MN, but nor Wisconsin for that matter.)