Best ways to get to Madison

[Anonymous]

Just realized how absolutely in the middle of nowhere Madison is. Do most people go to Mitchell in Milwaukee or O’Hare? Other than my Dartmouth tour, this seems like the best college in the most rural area of America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just realized how absolutely in the middle of nowhere Madison is. Do most people go to Mitchell in Milwaukee or O’Hare? Other than my Dartmouth tour, this seems like the best college in the most rural area of America.

What? Madison is a city of about 200K people, or maybe more. Top Chef just did a season there.

[Anonymous]

Milwaukee is a much easier drive ~ 90 minutes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just realized how absolutely in the middle of nowhere Madison is. Do most people go to Mitchell in Milwaukee or O’Hare? Other than my Dartmouth tour, this seems like the best college in the most rural area of America.

What? Madison is a city of about 200K people, or maybe more. Top Chef just did a season there.

200k isn’t that much. But you’re not a city if you’re surrounded by a massively depopulated area like rural western Wisconsin. Ditto for northern New Hampshire. Wisconsin/Minnesota/North Dakota are roughly in the same league of depopulated “Alabama of the North”states.

[Anonymous]

We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

UI-UC in the immediate region, and then UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, Texas, UNC, Florida, Washington and probably UGA, too. But “second” after all of them, sure.

[Anonymous]

There is an airport in Madison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is an airport in Madison.

And a direct flight from DC. Next time do your research.

[Anonymous]

Yes it couldn't be less in the middle of nowhere

[Anonymous]

My friend who lives near Madison always flies Southwest Milwaukee-DCA when she visits.

O'Hare is also doable and good if you're visiting other places in or closer to Chicago, but on balance the hassle of O'Hare's scale plus the horror of the Illinois highways make Milwaukee a much nicer choice.

There is a bus, too: https://badgerbus.com/linerun

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

UI-UC in the immediate region, and then UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, Texas, UNC, Florida, Washington and probably UGA, too. But “second” after all of them, sure.

UVA, Washington, Florida, Georgia are you kidding me? Talk about a mismatch, Wisconsin’s graduate schools across the board are better. I meant second best in the Midwest, but when you started listing UVA and Florida’s dog water graduate schools I draw the line!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

UI-UC in the immediate region, and then UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, Texas, UNC, Florida, Washington and probably UGA, too. But “second” after all of them, sure.

Seriously I’m sick to death of these dumb bad take on state universities. Look at the states you’ve listed, they have double, triple, and even quintuple the amount of people that Wisconsin has. This naturally makes them more competitive. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE BETTER. Look at the department ranks for each and compare them to Wisconsin. Not even close. History, chemistry, English, history, math, economics, Wisco is better than all these schools.

A school like Florida does no important research, contributes nothing to society, and is only elevated by having 20 MILLION more people than Wisconsin is. Can you do math??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

UI-UC in the immediate region, and then UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, Texas, UNC, Florida, Washington and probably UGA, too. But “second” after all of them, sure.

Seriously I’m sick to death of these dumb bad take on state universities. Look at the states you’ve listed, they have double, triple, and even quintuple the amount of people that Wisconsin has. This naturally makes them more competitive. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE BETTER. Look at the department ranks for each and compare them to Wisconsin. Not even close. History, chemistry, English, history, math, economics, Wisco is better than all these schools.

A school like Florida does no important research, contributes nothing to society, and is only elevated by having 20 MILLION more people than Wisconsin is. Can you do math??

When you tire of the tantrum and you’re ready to join the rest of us in the 21st century, we’ll be here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We flew into Milwaukee, rented a car and drove to visit. Campus is beautiful, however, student population is very white

Milwaukee is by far the smallest city in the Midwest. Wisconsin in the smallest Great Lakes state by over a million people. Yet it has the second best state university…

UI-UC in the immediate region, and then UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, Texas, UNC, Florida, Washington and probably UGA, too. But “second” after all of them, sure.

Seriously I’m sick to death of these dumb bad take on state universities. Look at the states you’ve listed, they have double, triple, and even quintuple the amount of people that Wisconsin has. This naturally makes them more competitive. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE BETTER. Look at the department ranks for each and compare them to Wisconsin. Not even close. History, chemistry, English, history, math, economics, Wisco is better than all these schools.

A school like Florida does no important research, contributes nothing to society, and is only elevated by having 20 MILLION more people than Wisconsin is. Can you do math??

When you tire of the tantrum and you’re ready to join the rest of us in the 21st century, we’ll be here.

This is the 21st century, it has better department NOW. I don’t get why employers and prospective students just ignore this. UW has such a mid reputation now, probably because it’s run by Wisconsinites who don’t care about prestige or giving their students good paying jobs. OOS students pay good money to go to this school, and being known as “Michigan’s backup” isn’t good enough. Why does UW always have the most incompetent administration.