<p>In response to the above ... it's not that UW-Madison intentionally accepts lesser qualified OOS students. It is that the OOS students often come from competitive, more wealthy schools, and may have a lower class rank. As a matter of fact, the differences are very small (4 percentiles lower in class rank that Wisconsin residents) but that should be expected by the number of prep school, ULTRA-competitive suburb schools in Minneapolis/Chicago, etc.</p>
<p>I DO agree, though, that for an OOS public, Wisconsin is a better deal.</p>