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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to compare public universities (from the NYT):

Students from top 1% of families

Michigan  9.3%
Virginia  8.5%
Illinois  2.5%
Penn State  2.3%
Wisconsin  1.7%

Students from top 10% of families

Michigan  49%
Virginia  49%
Illinois  30%
Penn State  27%
Wisconsin  19%[/quote]

For starters, WI as a state does not have a huge pocket of wealthy people (most would end up in Chicago, not Madison or Milwaukee).  Whereas VA has NoVa with a very large population of rich/UMC people.

MI is likely the same.  Then for OOS---MI is extremely popular, but most are not paying $75K+ for a state school(or any school) if they are not well off.

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Are you just making things up? Wisconsin has a number of Fortune 500 companies and closely held corps. It has the paper industry, SC Johnson, Miller Coors, Harley Davidson, Rockwell, Fiserv, Kohls, Johnson Controls, Oshkosh Corp, the biotech industry in Madison. I could go on and on. Not everyone with money goes to Chicago, but I am nit surprised that some ignorant DCUM poster jumps to this conclusion. Milwaukee and Madison have a number of beautiful wealthy areas and suburbs by the lakes that make everything in the DMV look like a dump. There is no shortage of money or wealth here. Sorry that blows your narrative. [/quote]

Have a kid who has been in both of those cities for the last 8+ years.  The wealth there simply does NOT compare to Chicago or a DCUMland.  Yes it exists but not nearly at the level of other states.  And have you been to the rest of WI?  Largely rural, smaller towns.  SO as a state, there is NOT as much wealth as say a Va [/quote]

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