Best ways to get to Madison

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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.

Look, a while back, a professional basketball player made a comment about Cleveland that I think explains why people in the 21st century don’t hold Wisco in nearly the same high regard that you appear to …

He said, “I never heard anyone say I’m going to Cleveland on vacation”.

https://youtu.be/XUxWYZrLUHo?feature=shared

Who is sending their kid to Madison, Wisconsin over these schools?

UCLA
Berkeley
Michigan
UVA
Texas
UNC
Florida
Washington
UGA

If the top ranked school was actually an outpost on the moon, would you send your kid there?

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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.

Madison is in eastern WI, not western

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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.

Madison is in eastern WI, not western

No, it is “south central” Wisconsin. That’s what the locals say.

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This is the stupidest thread I have seen in a long time. Flying to Madison, Milwaukee, or Chicago are all reasonable options. I’d go into more detail but just look it up yourself.

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At least two (and most days three) direct flights a day from DCA to Madison

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Troll post from Wisconsin booster.

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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!

Oh, please, get a grip.

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I thought this thread would be about JMU.

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There are direct flights to Madison from DCA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Look, a while back, a professional basketball player made a comment about Cleveland that I think explains why people in the 21st century don’t hold Wisco in nearly the same high regard that you appear to …

He said, “I never heard anyone say I’m going to Cleveland on vacation”.

https://youtu.be/XUxWYZrLUHo?feature=shared

Who is sending their kid to Madison, Wisconsin over these schools?

UCLA
Berkeley
Michigan
UVA
Texas
UNC
Florida
Washington
UGA

If the top ranked school was actually an outpost on the moon, would you send your kid there?

Noah went to Florida and no one vacations in Gainesville either. And college isn’t a vacation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Look, a while back, a professional basketball player made a comment about Cleveland that I think explains why people in the 21st century don’t hold Wisco in nearly the same high regard that you appear to …

He said, “I never heard anyone say I’m going to Cleveland on vacation”.

https://youtu.be/XUxWYZrLUHo?feature=shared

Who is sending their kid to Madison, Wisconsin over these schools?

UCLA
Berkeley
Michigan
UVA
Texas
UNC
Florida
Washington
UGA

If the top ranked school was actually an outpost on the moon, would you send your kid there?

Noah went to Florida and no one vacations in Gainesville either. And college isn’t a vacation.

True, but it’s not a prison sentence in a desolate, wintry gulag either.

I care about my kid’s college experience, which goes FAR beyond the classroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh, please, get a grip.

No no idiot you get a grip! There is mass denialism especially among the UVA boosters in the DC area about just how bad UVA is. You’re not contributing to society or to academia if you have horrible graduate schools. In 100 years, people will look at Wisconsin and Berkeley and Texas and all the other schools who invest in their graduate schools as the true leaders of higher education.

UVA has to get over this fetish for investment banking and big law and focus on the future, like stem. Washington/Florida and those types of schools need to focus on educating the whole person and get top humanities and stem like Wisconsin has.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh, please, get a grip.

No no idiot you get a grip! There is mass denialism especially among the UVA boosters in the DC area about just how bad UVA is. You’re not contributing to society or to academia if you have horrible graduate schools. In 100 years, people will look at Wisconsin and Berkeley and Texas and all the other schools who invest in their graduate schools as the true leaders of higher education.

UVA has to get over this fetish for investment banking and big law and focus on the future, like stem. Washington/Florida and those types of schools need to focus on educating the whole person and get top humanities and stem like Wisconsin has.

‘sconsin unleashed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh, please, get a grip.

No no idiot you get a grip! There is mass denialism especially among the UVA boosters in the DC area about just how bad UVA is. You’re not contributing to society or to academia if you have horrible graduate schools. In 100 years, people will look at Wisconsin and Berkeley and Texas and all the other schools who invest in their graduate schools as the true leaders of higher education.

UVA has to get over this fetish for investment banking and big law and focus on the future, like stem. Washington/Florida and those types of schools need to focus on educating the whole person and get top humanities and stem like Wisconsin has.

Here’s a take. You’re right that Wisconsin is a better university than Virginia. But not for getting a job. The German model of research universities which Wisconsin conforms to is wrong. That’s because there is no such thing as “truth” and trying to find truth in academia is foolish. Just look at physics or philosophy nowadays….

UVA has one of the best business and law schools. You don’t need “top faculty” for the best law or business school, all you need is selective admission and elite employer reputation. I can’t think of two categories antithetical to Wisconsin’s brand. Again, there is no doubt Wisconsin’s PHD students are, as a whole, leagues more intelligent and qualified than a UVA student. But how are they gonna get a job?? That’s all that’s gonna matter at the end of day, and academia is one of the worst job markets out there.

I’ve met a lot of well off Wisconsin alumni, but they are almost always from undergrad, which Wiscy is just good but not great at. Many of them went to top professional schools after Wisconsin, using the academic reputation as a booster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

If the top ranked school was actually an outpost on the moon, would you send your kid there?

Hell yeah! That sounds awesome. A once in a lifetime opportunity for sure.