Wisconsin students make up smallest share of UW-Madison freshman class in at least 25 years

[TexasTowelie]

Wisconsin residents make up a bare majority of freshmen at UW-Madison this year, the smallest percentage of in-state students the university has enrolled in at least 25 years.

The incoming class includes a record-breaking 7,550 students, 50.3% of whom are from Wisconsin.

That’s a 3.1-percentage-point drop from last year’s incoming class and an even steeper decline since the late 1990s and early 2000s, when two out of every three freshmen were Wisconsin residents, according to a Wisconsin State Journal analysis of enrollment reports.

But looking at raw numbers, the 3,797 students from Wisconsin represent the second-largest number of resident students in the last decade and the fourth-largest in the last 30 years.

Read more: https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/wisconsin-students-make-up-smallest-share-of-uw-madison-freshman/article_f9ccc8b2-1133-5d6d-9f08-43728242c66f.html

[mucifer]

1. Also in the article:

Complicating the admissions puzzle is the state’s declining number of high school graduates. There are 13 University of Wisconsin System campuses across the state, along with dozens of private institutions, all of whom are competing to recruit a shrinking pool of in-state applicants.

The opposite is happening in Illinois. The new state budget with dems controlling the legislature and a new liberal governor, there has been a lot of investment in Education. The University of Illinois is offering free tuition to in state families that earn less than $61,000 per year.
https://wgntv.com/2018/08/27/university-of-illinois-announces-free-tuition-for-income-qualified-students/

Hopefully, Wisconsin will see that this can work and change their ways.

[CaptYossarian]

2. Not with Vos and the Fitzgerald boys running (ruining) our state.

We're too gerrymandered for the "good guys" to take control.