<p>Anyone here come from out of state? Do you feel swamped by the amount of people from near Madison? I mean, as an out of stater, do you feel on the outside? Does it feel like everyone else was friends from the same high school? I'm going to be senior in CT and love UW and would love to go to school there. Please let me know, I hope it's not like that. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Eric</p>
<p>Never really noticed that too much. So many OOS kids it can be hard to even meet the locals unless you try.</p>
<p>Nope, I have never noticed this. There are certainly going to be more people from Wisconsin in the public dorms but not so that you find a lot of kinds from the same high schools living near eachother. The public dorms have a great mix of kids from WI, MN, and out of state.</p>
<p>Of course if you are planning on living in the private dorms the social dynamic is a little different. There you will find nearly everyone is from out of state.</p>
<p>What is the difference between a public and private dorm?</p>
<p>go here to their website for more information <a href="http://www.universityhouse.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.universityhouse.com/</a></p>
<p>but basicly, they are dorm rooms slightly off campus and are not owned by the university. Often their prices are slightly higher than the public dorms, but not always. And, some of the buildings are slightly nicer.</p>
<p>Really, the largest difference is in the students. The private dorms have primarily out of state students, and many of those from the east coast. However, that doesn't mean there arent out of state students in the public dorms. I lived in public dorms last year and I am out of state. In all probably 1/4 of the floor was not from WI or MN.</p>
<p>"Never really noticed that too much. So many OOS kids it can be hard to even meet the locals unless you try"
^^^^^^^
That is kind of a ridiculous statement. With only 25 percent of students from out of state you are much more likely to meet the locals. That is 25 percent not from Wisconsin or Minnesotta. And if you throw in Chicago its even less. I just got back from SOAR and I found myself surrounded by kids from wisconsin, minnesotta, and illinois. I did meet a few kids from out of state including another student from massachusetts as I am. But generally speaking you will find many many more wisconsin kids than out of staters. To say it can be hard to even meet the locals is just untrue.</p>
<p>Barrons, do you have to disagree with every single statement on this board?</p>
<p>If Barrons meant locals, as in from Madison its self than I would agree with his statement. But as far as the whole of WI, you will certainly find more people from WI than anywhere else.</p>
<p>I hardly disagree with every statement here. By locals I did mean Wisconsin kids. Most of my friends were from OOS. The bars I liked were the OOS hangouts. I met instate kids in classes but mostly stuck with the OOS crowd socially.</p>
<p>Wisconsin has the LARGEST out of state population of ANY big ten public school. A public university where 59% come from the tax paying home state? Are you kidding me? </p>
<p>Let's also take a look at the states represented @ UW, in order:</p>
<ol>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>Illinois (a ton of Chicago kids)</li>
<li>New York</li>
<li>California</li>
<li>New Jersey</li>
<li>Mass.</li>
</ol>
<p>It has the largest out of state population because they are throwing the MN kids in that mix which is unfair considering they are basically given in-state tuition. Aside from MN and WI, its 25 percent out of state.</p>
<p>I do not understand how that is unfair. They are from out of the state of Wisconsin. You're telling me a kid who travels 5+ hours from Minneapolis to attend Madison is somehow less "far away" than someone who travels 45 minutes up the road from Ohio to Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan?</p>
<p>And no, it is not. Aside from Minnesota and Wisconsin, it is about 30% out of state. Still a large number. Further, it does NOT take away from the depth and breadth of the states represented at UW-Madison. It's a national university which both the undergraduate population/alumni network prove. Not to mention the 3,800 international students!</p>
<p>I am not sure your numbers are right. where are you getting these facts from? The UW website says there are 12,077 OOS representing 29.0% of the population.</p>
<p>I beleive its also state law that no more than 20% of the population can come from a state other than WI/MN. However, I am not sure on those details.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wisc.edu/about/facts/</a></p>
<p>I don't know about the state law and I'm not sure if you are responding to my post or the one above, but 29.0% is close enough to 30 for me.</p>
<p>you said 30% other than WI/MN. looking at the UW Facts website it states:</p>
<p>Place of origin Total Number Percent
From Wisconsin 25,557 62.5%
From other U.S. states 12,077 29.0%
International students 3,571 8.6%</p>
<p>It says from othe U.S. states, which i belive includes MN.</p>
<p>Here are more up to date hard numbers. From 2005-2006</p>
<p>Resident: 67%
Non-Resident: 22&
Minnesota Compact: 11%</p>
<p>This is for undergrads</p>
<p>However, if you take undergrad, grad, special, and profesional students into acount then the numbers are more like you say.</p>
<p>undergrads<br>
resident "19,233"
non resid "6,150"
minn 3075
total "28,458"</p>
<p>Grad<br>
resident "3,005"
non resid 5668
minn 168
total "8,841"</p>
<p>Special<br>
resident 1214
non 416
min 18
total "1,648"</p>
<p>professoin<br>
resident "1,954"
non 526
min 53
total "2,533"</p>
<p>total<br>
resident "25,406"
non res "12,760"
min "3,314"
total "41,480"</p>
<p>Percentage<br>
Resident 61.2487946
Non 30.76181292
Min 7.989392478</p>
<p>Also, i don't think UW has the most out of state students in the big 10 either. Indiana University - Bloomington only has 59% resident and no reciprocioty agreements.</p>
<p>Anyway, not sure what the point of all this was :D. But there are the hard numbers so nobody can argue.</p>
<p>and BTW: these were my own quick calculations so forget the typos and bad formatting :D</p>
<p>There is a law that says no more than 25 percent can come from out of state to Wisconsin. Out of state meaning other than WI and MN.</p>
<p>16074>15375 thus UW has more OOS students.</p>
<p>You really can't just look at the numbers. Wisconsin is one of the largest Universities in the nation and therefore should have more out of state studentds. As a percentage though, it really is not all that diverse of a University.</p>
<p>No matter how you want to slice it UW has more OOS students than most colleges of all sorts. If you went to Stanford or Wash U or Emory there would not be as many. Big helps mean diverse and percentages are for LAC's where 100 minority students could mean 10% minority but it's still not very many in absolute numbers. UW is also very economicaly diverse with lots of blue collar and farmer's kids. Having a bunch of upper class minorities is not really very diverse except in color.</p>