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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it compare to Indiana University or university of Illinois?[/quote]

Very favorably in all the academic measures quantified by national lists (US news being the most infamous of this type)

[b]Not on the radar of the Whitman crowd though.[/b]   Indiana sounds "Midwestern."' Madison evokes lakes and adorableness and not farming -- so it is acceptable to people from the east coast, and in particular, Jews and self-described intellectual parents.  That's not an anti-Semitic swipe:  try an experiment today. Ask a practicing Jewish parent which school they'd pick for their teen, Ohio State or UWisc? Uillinois or UWisc? UKansas or UWisc?   Even U Minnesota vs U Wisconsin, and they're about two feet away from each other and "ranked" about the same.

This experiment would probably work with any parents in Bethesda and Ward 3, of any faith. For some reason, Wisconsin gets a pass on the "flyover country farm boy hicks evangelical" perception. Maybe it's the lakes and the fact that there is a sailing team. Hm. [/quote]

According to the College Bound article in the September-October Bethesda Magazine, 36 applied to U of W-M and 17 accepted from Whitman. Illinois-20 applied 14 accepted and Indiana 44 applied and 36 accepted from Whitman.

It would seem that the Whitman crowd is open to the midwest schools.

This is in the current issue of Bethesda Magazine [/quote]

Whitman grad here - there are always a large number of kids that go to Wisconsin from Whitman (same with MI, IL, IN, etc) - there are around 450-500 or so seniors each year, and 95% or more go to 4 year colleges (similar types of stats in many of the local big high schools).  Coming from an East Coast bias, Wisconsin is typically viewed as a tier a little below UVA and MI, but on par with the other BIG Midwestern schools (and very different than a small liberal arts school, although I know lots of students who applied to a range of different types of schools since you don't necessarily know where you'll thrive and many feel the pressure to try to get into a school they feel is as prestigious as possible - whether that is a healthy thing or not is another issue).   Of course, in the Midwest itself, they would have their own feelings of how schools compare - and you get many of the most elite students from that area of the Midwest who go to Wisconsin (similar to how in Texas, a large set of the "best" students who stay in state and go to UT without thinking of going to a Coast).  Every college and university has some stronger depts and facilities etc than others - but are generally fine across the board and many don't know what they want to major in before they actually go to school (although of course some do).  Everyone I know who went to WI seemed to like it - one consideration is that if kids go to school in the Midwest, they may settle in the Midwest after college - although I do also know many who moved back.[/quote]

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