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.

If Madison is in the middle of nowhere, so is UVA and Michigan. Man, some of you just blow the stereotype that people in the DC area are smart.

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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.

Where did Wisconsin hurt you, hon?

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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

Wi outside of Milwaukee is "very white"

Signed,

Parent of A kid who attended college in Milwaukee and took a job in Madison area

First thing they noticed was the extreme lack of diversity (grew up in Md/HoCo and then west coast)

WTF are you talking about? Milwaukee is majority minority.

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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…

What the F are you spouting? Milwaukee is twice the size of Cleveland, bigger than anything in Iowa and bigger than Minneapolis and St. Paul. And Wisconsin is bigger than Minnesota and Iowa. Pick up a book before spewing nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote: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

There is a delta direct MSN to DCA. Why drive 90+ mins to MKE?!?!?!

Ohare is 30 mins further but then united is also a choice

It is virtually impossible to get a reasonably costing flight out of MSN for any of the breaks.

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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?

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.

These are all the Best of Lists that Madison shows up on. It is far from a gulag. It is regularly considered one of the best cities to live in:
Madison, Wisconsin appears on many "best of" lists, including:
Best places to live: U.S. News ranked Madison third in the country for quality of life in 2024.
Best college towns: Madison is ranked as the best college football town in the country.
Best cities for STEM jobs: Madison is ranked ninth for best cities for STEM jobs.
Most educated cities: Madison is ranked as the fifth most educated city in the country.
Safest cities: ranked#10 in county by USNWR

A Google search with "which Best of Lists does Madison WI show up on" would get this list with links. And Delta & American have direct flights from DCA every day except Saturday.

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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.

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.

You’re the idiot. You do not know what you are talking about. Keep the BS to your ignorant self. UVA is doing just fine. Virginia has great public choices. Kudos.

The Madison area is the 87th largest metro area in the country, between Winston-Salem DC and Ogden UT. It’s not New York but it’s not rural either. It’s also a state capital. And, again, there are direct flights to Madison from DCA.

This thread is ridiculous.

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.

Madison is State Capital
It is not considered rural.

I would recommend learning a little more about the school

Anonymous wrote: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.

Every post in this thread is idiotic. Will definitely help break my DCUM habit.

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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

Madison is actually about 1/2 way from MN border to Lake Michigan. It is "Southern WI" and the middle of the state other wise

Anonymous wrote: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

There is a delta direct MSN to DCA. Why drive 90+ mins to MKE?!?!?!

Ohare is 30 mins further but then united is also a choice

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Anonymous wrote:There is an airport in Madison.

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

yup---National to Msn. Simple easy flight. If in DC, I would not fly into MKE---just go to mSN

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

Wi outside of Milwaukee is "very white"

Signed,

Parent of A kid who attended college in Milwaukee and took a job in Madison area

First thing they noticed was the extreme lack of diversity (grew up in Md/HoCo and then west coast)

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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.

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You fly into Madison. Unless you like driving. Then you fly to Chicago/Ohare and drive 2 Hours or Milwaukee and drive 90 mins.

Madison is NOT rural. Rural is Cornell etc.