Reply to Why do UVA and Michigan attract such affluent student bodies?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Why do UVA and Michigan attract such affluent student bodies?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

That is very true. And Michigan and UVA have long been regarded as very good schools. Plus, Michigan has enjoyed the rise in the popularity of STEM over the past couple of decades. Plus the school spirit, Ann Arbor, and football. And 50 percent of their students are OOS, so that creates both a wealthy vibe and a national alumni base. UVA has a more genteel atmosphere but it's long been regarded as a public elite. It's one of the oldest universities in the nation.

Penn State, Illinois, and Wisconsin are in a different tier. Though UIUC is very desirable for engineering and CS. I don't know what happened to Wisconsin. It was more of an it school in the 80s and early 90s, but then I guess Scott Walker happened. Florida under DeSantis really needs to be aware of the Wisconsin experience. Right wing politics - even for a few short years - can really hurt the state schools. And it can take decades for reputations to come back.

Then there is UNC and the UCs. But both systems are very, very instate focused, and it's difficult to see how they maintain their high national reps for undergrad in the years to come when very few OOS can get in, no matter how wealthy. And that already creates distortions. An OOS student at UNC tends to be much more accomplished than their instate counterparts. And who knows how things are going to play out at the UCs with their insistence on never looking at test scores again and having so few OOS students. But CA is a giant state so they can do their thing for longer than any other state. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics