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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Northwestern feels more East Coast than Michigan, but Michigan feels more East Coast than most of the other flagship Us in the Midwest. Indiana also feels pretty East Coast, but less so than Michigan. Wisconsin I would say is probably similar to Indiana in terms of "east coast" feel.

Other flagship Us/traditional Big 10 schools - Minnesota, Illinois, U of Iowa, Purdue, Ohio State, Michigan State - have never really attracted coastal students in the way that IU, Michigan, and Wisconsin have. (Northwestern too, obviously, but that's private so kind of a different thing.)

Penn State is a bit of a wild card because it draws heavily from the Philadelphia area (which is objectively east coast both with geography and culture) and lots of kids from other mid-atlantic states, but also plenty from the western part of the state which feels more Midwestern (but ultimately is not considered part of the Midwest) or even Appalachian, and the central part of the state which is like a weird mix of Appalachian, Eastern, and Midwestern. So just because of the state of Pennsylvania's varied geography and cultural influences it doesn't feel *totally* east coast in the way that say, UMD or Rutgers do, but I would say overall it's more east coast in feel than Midwestern.[/quote]

Disagree about Indiana.

Indiana feels more midwest than most of tge other flagship midwest universities,  including Michigan,  University of Missouri Columbia, KU, Illinois, etc.

Indiana is the most midwestern-y of all of the midwest flagships.

Signed,
Midwesterner[/quote]

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