<p>I live in MN and considered going to UW Madison because we get reciprocity with them, so I know some about both schools.</p>
<p>UW Madison has a much prettier campus than A&M it's also smaller area wise. It's true that Madisoin is a larger city than College Station but boston or Houston it is not. It's one of the smaller cities in the Midwest, the twin cities (Mineapolis and St. Paul) are quite a bit larger and obviously the largest city in the midwest is Chicago. I would check drive times or available transportation to the Twin Cities or Chicago if you need to be near a bigger city for flying internationaly or something, but neither is close enough to go to for a night on the town or whatever.</p>
<p>Weather in Wisconsin is a complete four seasons. This means yes it snows in the winter and you'd better have a winter wardrobe. Temperatures in the summer are typically in the 80's and 90's spring and fall are in the 60's and 70's and winter can get pretty cold with wind chill (think negative 30's, but that's during very cold weeks.) Summer is typically the end of june through August, fall is mid-September to early November, sometimes there's snow on the ground by thanksgiving and sometimes there isn't. Winter is relatively mild in November and December, usually some snow but temperatures stay close to or above 0 degrees (Fahrenheit, sorry all these temps are in Fahrenheit) the really cold months are January and February, winter usually gives way to spring just after St. Patrick's day, but this year it held on super long! (It snowed in MN on May 2, it's a little warmer in Wisconsin than MN though.)</p>
<p>Politically Wisconsin will be much more "liberal" than TAMU, much much more. It's a farming state, so they're conservative compared to the coasts, but liberal compared to Texas by far.</p>
<p>TAMU:
College Station is a college town, which means many things revolve around the college and its students. This is often really nice but it does mean that often times the cultural happenings are all from the college, which sometime gets old (I started to really really miss my favorite independent movie theater by the end of 2nd semester.)</p>
<p>Temperatures for me are killer hot in August, September, and parts of October and May. This means that whatever the temperature actually is, with humidity it feels like it's always in the 100's (again, Fahrenheit temps here, sorry.) Then it settles into nice temperatures, by December it's in the high 60's during the week and 70's on the weekends. I never needed a jacket, but I was referred to as crazy by the native Texans a few times for wearing skirts or short sleeves in "cold" weather so this really depends on what you're used to.</p>
<p>Politically TAMU is not only in a conservative state, but is a very conservative college. I though I was pretty conservative until I came to A&M and realized that there I'm on the more liberal side of conservative. This doesn't mean you can't consider yourself a democrat and go to A&M but it is something to be aware of.</p>
<p>I hope this helps you, being as it's information that you might have trouble researching on your own. Let me know if you have any questions about what I've said.</p>