The difference, though, it that at UW-Madison, roughly 2/3 of the OOS students come form just two immediately adjacent states, Minnesota and Illinois. The Minnesota numbers are boosted by tuition reciprocity, but that’s a two -way street; roughly as many Wisconsinites attend the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities as Minnesotans attend UW-Madison. Illinois doesn’t enjoy tuition reciprocity but Madison is only 2-3 hours drive from any part of the Chicago metro area and UW-Madison is seen by many Chicago-area students as an attractive alternative to UIUC, a very good school in its own right but located in a small town stuck out in the cornfields. Wisconsin does attract some “Coasties” as they’re known in Madison (to distinguish them from “Sconnies”), but only about 1/4 to 1/3 as many as Michigan.