University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

Haha this is true! I am a graduate and my 9th-grade DD is convinced this is the only school she wants to go to. Which is fine by me, because I loved it. She will likely have stats to be in the mix, but it has become a very tough admit now.

Also, I love that the traditionally politically engaged student body still exists, as evidenced by their turnout for the state Supreme Court seat. I think this makes it appealing for DMV students and it becomes a cycle of alumni moving to DC and then their children going there. I know so many UW graduates out here.

If you ran that new NY Times college tool and put every indicator at the highest importance, so they are all weighted at 10%, UW was ranked 22nd in the country.

Its primary downside is a relative lack of racial diversity, esp at the undergraduate level and I think as it becomes more popular it will draw in a broader OOS population and change that. The other issue is that it's one of those schools where the in-state population is increasingly less strong than the OOS students and the OOS population is growing--in 2022 46.6% of students were OOS (even more if you count Minnesota bc UW has a shared state agreement with MN). There may be an in-state backlash about this trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

Haha this is true! I am a graduate and my 9th-grade DD is convinced this is the only school she wants to go to. Which is fine by me, because I loved it. She will likely have stats to be in the mix, but it has become a very tough admit now.

Also, I love that the traditionally politically engaged student body still exists, as evidenced by their turnout for the state Supreme Court seat. I think this makes it appealing for DMV students and it becomes a cycle of alumni moving to DC and then their children going there. I know so many UW graduates out here.

If you ran that new NY Times college tool and put every indicator at the highest importance, so they are all weighted at 10%, UW was ranked 22nd in the country.

Its primary downside is a relative lack of racial diversity, esp at the undergraduate level and I think as it becomes more popular it will draw in a broader OOS population and change that. The other issue is that it's one of those schools where the in-state population is increasingly less strong than the OOS students and the OOS population is growing--in 2022 46.6% of students were OOS (even more if you count Minnesota bc UW has a shared state agreement with MN). There may be an in-state backlash about this trend.

I agree about the relative lack of racial diversity and that shows up in the NYT tool. To your point about stronger OOS students than in-state, don't you think that is the case at many large state schools that are popular with OOS? By necessity, the OOS students have to be top-notch to be admitted to a state school with a large number of OOS applicants. I imagine the same could be said for U-MI, which is more in demand by the really top-notch students atm, as an example. Perhaps that backlash already happened in CA and hence the reason the UC schools have to take a certain % of in-state students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

Haha this is true! I am a graduate and my 9th-grade DD is convinced this is the only school she wants to go to. Which is fine by me, because I loved it. She will likely have stats to be in the mix, but it has become a very tough admit now.

Also, I love that the traditionally politically engaged student body still exists, as evidenced by their turnout for the state Supreme Court seat. I think this makes it appealing for DMV students and it becomes a cycle of alumni moving to DC and then their children going there. I know so many UW graduates out here.

If you ran that new NY Times college tool and put every indicator at the highest importance, so they are all weighted at 10%, UW was ranked 22nd in the country.

Its primary downside is a relative lack of racial diversity, esp at the undergraduate level and I think as it becomes more popular it will draw in a broader OOS population and change that. The other issue is that it's one of those schools where the in-state population is increasingly less strong than the OOS students and the OOS population is growing--in 2022 46.6% of students were OOS (even more if you count Minnesota bc UW has a shared state agreement with MN). There may be an in-state backlash about this trend.

I agree about the relative lack of racial diversity and that shows up in the NYT tool. To your point about stronger OOS students than in-state, don't you think that is the case at many large state schools that are popular with OOS? By necessity, the OOS students have to be top-notch to be admitted to a state school with a large number of OOS applicants. I imagine the same could be said for U-MI, which is more in demand by the really top-notch students atm, as an example. Perhaps that backlash already happened in CA and hence the reason the UC schools have to take a certain % of in-state students.

I think it's because UW has relatively few in-state students compared to other places at this point. They already count students from MN as "in-state" so with 46.6% OOS PLUS MN, you're talking about a minority of students from WI being enrolled at the state flagship. It makes sense on a economic level for the state and the school (attracting talented young people to a state that has an aging population, paying OOS rates boosts the finances of the school) but it sits wrong with the electorate who increasingly see their students getting a) shut out of the flagship, b) those who are accepted performing worse, not getting prime opportunities given their weaker academic profile than the half of the school that is OOS. I think whenever a state school's OOS population exceeds about 1/3 of the students a backlash tends to come from the electorate.

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Direct flights to Milwaukee on SW from either Reagan or BWI and then Badger Bus from airport to campus.

[Anonymous]

Housing is extremely tough. After freshman year, nothing is guaranteed. Big problem for the school and city. Also, kid has to be able to get out of bed when it’s negative 5 degrees and get to class!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

lol right??

waiting on EA, praying admit + BANNER!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

lol right??

waiting on EA, praying admit + BANNER!!

Is EA still end of month?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never mention this school to others because I want my kids to get accepted.

lol right??

waiting on EA, praying admit + BANNER!!

Is EA still end of month?

Website says on or before 1/31 and I haven't heard anything different