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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These rankings are a joke. Illinois ranked above Wisconsin? All the smart Chicago kids would rather go to Madison than Urbana Champaign.[/quote]

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Michigan over U of I, sure.  But there aren't a bunch of kids paying out of state tuition at Wisconsin if they get into Urbana Champaign.[/quote]
Yeah, whatever. Who wouldn’t spend four years in a cow town over Madison? [/quote]

If you're out of state, UW Madison's total cost of attendance is around 50k whereas in-state U of I is around 31k.   [/quote]
Well maybe based on cost alone, Illinois would be preferable.[/quote]

That's kind of the point.  Sure, plenty of smart Chicago kids might prefer UW-Madison's location and wish it had in-state tuition, but it's not a superior school in any meaningful way to justify paying 20k a year more if you get into U of I.   And so most smart Chicago kids who are going for a public university will go to U of I, upping its SAT scores.  Wisconsin doesn't have a similar giant metro area with similar elite suburban schools so its overall SAT scores are slightly lower.  [/quote]

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