Penn State (main campus) versus UConn

JHS
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:38:18 +0000

^Why? Both states have a wide range of income groups in their populations, and both states have lots of other institutions competing for the kids. If anything, I suspect Penn State has MORE rich kids than UConn. Smart poor kids are more likely to be urban kids, and urban kids tend to prefer Pitt or Temple to Penn State, so that leaves Penn State with a decidedly more suburban (and rural) student body. Connecticut is proportionately more suburban than Pennsylvania, but it doesn’t have urban public institutions of the caliber of Pitt or Temple to compete with UConn for top urban students.