<p>Find a safety you like - with your stats, many will waive fees or have none to start with.</p>
<p>Make sure to apply to both Marquette and Wisconsin-Madison with great care.
Odds are very good you’ll get into both.
Have you applied to the Honors College?</p>
<p>Then, with admissions in hand, look at how much money your second safety (the one you actually like) offered, along with the cost of attendance at your two matches after scholarships.
if your family can afford its EFC or if you’re not applying for FA, you can stop there - although:don’t you want to try just one reach?
It’s fine not to have reaches, though.
However, if you need lots of financial aid (beside the $5,500 loan you’re entitled to and is the only loan you can carry as a freshman) it might be safer to apply to one more school of your choice, a school that would offer you merit and need based aid.
I assume you’re in-state for WI so it should be your cheaper option, but some families have found that with merit aid private universities can turn out cheaper than their flagship.
Have you run the net price calculators for each school, and talked with your parents about costs?</p>