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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an OOS at Wisconsin back in the day and lived in the in-state dorms. At that time, most of the OOS kids lived in the private dorms because there wasn't public dorm space available. I think that has changed over the past 10 years as parts of campus have been rebuilt.[/quote]

I'm the previous Wisconsin poster complaining about this :) Yes you are right, I forgot about this fact, much of the self-segregation I identified might also have been because of the dorm shortage. I wonder if this has changed dynamics now, if more of the East coast kids are integrated into the regular dorms? FWIW, where I lived, many of the Wisconsin kids actually WANTED to make friends with OOS kids (because, how exotic is it to have a new friend FROM NEW YORK CITY!?! ;) but were really spurned.  The rich East Coast kids wanted NOTHING to do with us.  My guess is that dynamic is still there, but perhaps a little less now, if dorm life is more geographically integrated. And I loved my UW Madison experience, so I hate to be sounding so negative about it.  I think it had to do with socioeconomic segregation more than anything, but it seemed geographic, given the income dynamics of the student populations. [/quote]

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