Don’t know how it works for the other schools at UW-Madison, but the Business School clearly states what I put in post #1114.
Comes directly from the website:
High School Applicants with Direct Admission
Applicants offered Direct Admission to the Wisconsin School of Business are automatically evaluated for BBA scholarship awards based on their University of Wisconsin-Madison application. A WiSH application is not required, but we encourage you to review the Wisconsin Scholarship Hub (WiSH) website for awards outside the School of Business.
To be considered for most BBA awards, completion of the FAFSA is required. Unless requested for an individual award, no additional or updated documentation is necessary.
Notifications to students selected for scholarship awards will be sent by March 1 for early action admits and by April 15 for regular decision admits.
In my kids portal it says:
“This year’s Direct Admit Visit Days will be held Friday, February 1 and Friday, April 19. Space is limited, so be sure to sign up soon!”
Guess you should have your admitted student check their portal
@countdamoney - where exactly in the portal? My son’s just says to look at the checklist, and the checklist doesn’t specify a particular admitted event. But he’s L&S so maybe it isn’t set up yet.
@countdamoney: my kid’s portal doesn’t send him over to Canvas so that might be something specific to the bus. school. Pretty sure that the Visit Bucky events aren’t tailored to the accepted students but there will probably be something listed soon. He was just made aware of the Honors Program application (for L&S) so they are rolling stuff out as available. No worries. Thanks though!
^ Turns out my kid has a Canvas account but we accessed it directly using the address you gave. Guessing the link will show up at some point. My kids have used Canvas at their HS so it would be nice to continue that in college. They won’t even have to change to another app.
The link to visits in post #1126 (above) looks like it’s for information sessions for the College of Letters & Science. Are these the general sessions for all interested students, or specifically for admitted students? We visited UW last year and did the general session and tour. Now that my daughter is admitted, we are trying to plan a second visit that’s more in-depth for admitted students, rather than repeating what we’ve already seen and heard. Anyone know when those might be? Since we’re OOS we need to plan in advance.
Update to comment #1036 and #1037 - we received Madison’s admission packet in the mail and the letter did specifically say Biomedical Engineering. Now we just have to hope some of those scholarships hit or it looks like she’s going to have to go elsewhere. Pretty frustrating to have a kid work so damn hard for so many years and then not be able to go to her dream school because of cost. But I understand that’s just how it is at some universities. Best of luck to everyone.
@MountainGrl those appear to be general sessions, not anything geared to an admitted student. You might call Admissions and see if they have a L&S admitted event forthcoming at any time, or whether those listed are most appropriate for someone discerning whether to commit. Trying to remember whether we ran into any admitted students during my son’s visit, other than those who were already enrolled and attending SOAR. At UMN they’ve combined the admitted students with general visitors for the informational component but then would break off the admitted students separately for a reception and meet & greet. Maybe UW does the same thing?
Please report back if you know what the scoop will be for L&S visits.