The States: North Dakota? Come On, Ohio Is The Worst State Ever.

[burd]

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Only 12? RIGGED!!!

I know. There are young people who have never drank everclear or barfed on the couch or out of a moving car. Right here in Wisconsin.

I blame it on weed.

They're not hanging this one on the Boomers.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Pretty much all are college towns in the Midwest, no?

 

[aparch]

Pretty much all are college towns in the Midwest, no?

I wouldn't quite call the Wisconsin ones not named Madison or Milwaukee as college towns. A few are minor schools in the UW system, others just have technical schools if that.

 

[St. Clown]

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I wouldn't quite call the Wisconsin ones not named Madison or Milwaukee as college towns. A few are minor schools in the UW system, others just have technical schools if that.

What's considered a minor school in the UW system? Sharing the western border with that state, I know a number of people who attended UW La Crosse.

 

[aparch]

What's considered a minor school in the UW system? Sharing the western border with that state, I know a number of people who attended UW La Crosse.

I don't know quite how to word it correctly, as the degrees count the same, but I've always thought of UW Madison as *the* UW school, like Tier 1, and then all the rest are under it, tier 2.

 

[St. Clown]

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I don't know quite how to word it correctly, as the degrees count the same, but I've always thought of UW Madison as *the* UW school, like Tier 1, and then all the rest are under it, tier 2.

Right, but they're also usually the biggest economic driver in town for those cities, much like SCSU was for St. Cloud when I was there. That would make them college towns, yes?

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I always thought the point of the UW-Podunk system was to drive kids who couldn't make the cut into the flagship campus (or couldn't afford to live away from home all 4 years) to attend the D3 schools for a year or two, then transfer to Maddy if they made the grade.

 

[state of hockey]

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All I know is that Eau Claire has a fantastic jazz program, as surprising as it may be.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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All I know is that Eau Claire has a fantastic jazz program, as surprising as it may be.

I'm sure they all have their own little niche, just like the directional Michigan schools. To survive as a smaller school these days, you pretty much have to.

Tech produces engineers and computer guys. Central produces teachers and journalists. Northern produces nurses (and more teachers). Western produces pilots. Wayne produces the second-tier doctors who got wait-listed Michigan.

I have no idea what Eastern is supposed to be good at.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

I wouldn't quite call the Wisconsin ones not named Madison or Milwaukee as college towns. A few are minor schools in the UW system, others just have technical schools if that.

They’re all pretty sizable schools though. Looks like most are 8-10k each. That’s a lot for D3 and on par with most of Michigan’s D2 schools. For comparison, all of Michigan’s D3 schools (they are private, however) are all around 1-4K.

 

[burd]

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I'm sure they all have their own little niche, just like the directional Michigan schools. To survive as a smaller school these days, you pretty much have to.

Tech produces engineers and computer guys. Central produces teachers and journalists. Northern produces nurses (and more teachers). Western produces pilots. Wayne produces the second-tier doctors who got wait-listed Michigan.

I have no idea what Eastern is supposed to be good at.

So true. UND produces intelligent, sophisticated, sensitive, well rounded and good looking (yet not arrogant!) graduates in all areas of study. Not surprisingly, it accepts few Minnesotans.



BTW, LaCrosse is much more a college town than Milwaukee is, IMO.

 

[aparch]

They’re all pretty sizable schools though. Looks like most are 8-10k each. That’s a lot for D3 and on par with most of Michigan’s D2 schools. For comparison, all of Michigan’s D3 schools (they are private, however) are all around 1-4K.

Welp, I was gravely mistaken. I hadn't looked up enrollment numbers and mistakenly though they were all much smaller than that. I, like Fade, thought it was a stepping stone to the big school, or a way to focus without the big campus distraction at their specializiations. I knew two Illinois kids interning at IDOT that were getting engineering degrees from UW Whitewater.

Time to change my perception of that.


Also, I assumed MKE had a sizable college town component because of UW-MKE, Marquette U, and MSOE.



And all Appleton has is Fox Valley Technical School and Lawrence University. Neither are big enough to make Appleton a "college town."

 

[Spartanforlife4]

I'm sure they all have their own little niche, just like the directional Michigan schools. To survive as a smaller school these days, you pretty much have to.

Tech produces engineers and computer guys. Central produces teachers and journalists. Northern produces nurses (and more teachers). Western produces pilots. Wayne produces the second-tier doctors who got wait-listed Michigan.

I have no idea what Eastern is supposed to be good at.

I know two people who went to EMU who weren’t there to play sports. One was a teacher who I’m fairly sure went their ironically given all the other stories she shared. The other was a guy who took about ten years with a combination of schools and credits to get an undergrad degree. Not that there’s anything with that, everyone has their own path, but I just can’t think of anyone who made EMU their first choice out of high school.

 

[Handyman]

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So true. UND produces intelligent, sophisticated, sensitive, well rounded and good looking (yet not arrogant!) graduates in all areas of study. Not surprisingly, it accepts few Minnesotans.

Crystal Meth is a helluva drug...

There are less teeth per person on the UND campus than there are trees in NoDak...but they are very good at peeing in elevators

 

[St. Clown]

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So true. UND produces intelligent, sophisticated, sensitive, well rounded and good looking (yet not arrogant!) graduates in all areas of study. Not surprisingly, it accepts few Minnesotans.

Three of my high school friends couldn't get into SCSU. UND accepted all of them without even a sniff at the waitlist, if that school even has such a thing. Two went to school there while the third slipped even further down the list and went to Augsburg College.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Three of my high school friends couldn't get into SCSU. UND accepted all of them without even a sniff at the waitlist, if that school even has such a thing. Two went to school there while the third slipped even further down the list and went to Augsburg College.

That is...incredible.

 

[St. Clown]

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That is...incredible.

I didn't hang out with high school scholars. We all did all right for ourselves in the end.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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couldn't get into SCSU

wait, what?

 

[St. Clown]

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wait, what?

It's rare, but it happens. We still laugh about it.

 

[Twitch Boy]

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Tech pretty much accepts anyone with a pulse.

Problem is, most of the accepted don't realize this until they put up a 35 on the second exam in CH1100 and Tech has a semester's worth of their tuition money.