University of Wisconsin Madison EA Class of 2024

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L&S Scholarships range from $500 to $8,000 with notification from January to March:

https://scholarships.ls.wisc.edu/incoming-freshmen/

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
Typically 75 Letters & Science scholarships are awarded to a class of over 3,000 incoming freshmen. Scholarship opportunities are very limited for non-residents. International students are not eligible for incoming freshmen scholarships.

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I apologize if this has already been posted. Does anyone know when the Admissions Office is open during the holiday break? I’m wondering if they are open this week or won’t be back until January 6. Thank you in advance.

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Hi everyone! Hope you’re enjoying your holidays! It says on the admitted students checklist that they will send out instructions about admitted student days - do we know when that comes out?

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@ssshen The twitter account says they are closed through January 1.

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Thank you!

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Probably after all the students receive their decision? I myself have not received an admission decision yet.

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Does anyone else get this message when trying to login to their account who has NOT gotten their decision yet?

“Canvas doesn’t have an account for user:”

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I haven’t gotten a decision but I don’t receive that message when logging in.

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i declined my madison spot and the other colleges i’m not planning on going to. haven’t accepted the school i will probably go to yet (depends on how rd goes)

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Congratulations to all of you.

Here are some tips:

Registration

  • The earlier that you go to orientation the more options scheduled wise you will have.
    All the information about orientation is here: https://soar.wisc.edu

Selecting your classes

  • Check out the FIGS (https://figs.wisc.edu/catalog/). To make easier the registration for first year students, you can sign up for one of the FIGS that consist of 3, 4, or 5 classes that encompass one area of interest. There are some direct admit only FIGS as well (Engineering, Nursing, Business School, etc) The schedule will be set for you. You will be together with the same group of 20-25 students in all those classes.

Housing

  • Try to find a roommate ASAP and sign up for housing. You will need to pick the dorms in order of preference. The lottery will be sometime in March.
  • Take a look at the learning communities as an option as well. https://www.housing.wisc.edu/residence-halls/learning-communities/
  • Another option is to leave on a private mainly freshmen dorm like Statesider. It is located next to State St (downtown) and two blocks from campus. (https://www.dwellstudentmadison505.com)
  • If you live on the dorms, you will need to pick a resident dinning package option (https://www.housing.wisc.edu/dining/residents/)
  • Your new university ID is called WISC Card. The WISC Card also acts as a debit card. You can load money in the card and use it in all the food courts on campus. You can use it to buy anything from the campus store as well.
  • If you live off campus, you can still use the WISC card to buy food. You can also purchase Red Card. It is similar to the WISC Card but works on a bunch of restaurants and grocery stores in the downtown area. (https://www.redcardmealplan.com)

Football Tickets

  • Student football tickets will go out to sale at the beginning of the spring. Freshmen will be given a date and time to purchase them. Usually, the tickets are sold within a couple of hours after they go live. If you want tickets, make sure that you create an account at https://uwbadgers.com a few days before trying to purchase the season tickets.
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Thank you!

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Has anyone in the state of georgia gotten a response on their early action application

ramming speed to all

sda

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I live in North Carolina and have not gotten a decision yet. for those of you who have gotten them did you get any notifications before and was it at a specific time?

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My S received an email (“Your admissions decision is available”) about 1.5 hours after the decision posted in his portal. Decision posted around 7:30 PM CST, and email was sent a little before 9 PM CST. Good luck

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No decision yet for Arizona students. Hoping it will be soon!!!

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I was under the impression that my out-of state son would get a response today, but he looked again at the email he got a couple weeks ago, and it says that the University will NOT be able to get him a decision by the 31st., and they will let him know in early January.

As a Mom, I can’t wait for this application process to be over. I don’t remember it being so stressful when I applied to colleges. And for all of you students, whether your parents recognize it or not, it is truly an impressive feat for you to research schools, write multiple essays and manage all of these applications on top of schoolwork and attempts to enjoy your last year of High School Good luck to you all. There are so many great schools out there so please remember that your happiness will be more of a function of HOW you go to college and not WHERE you go to college.

I’d like to share that I view your generation as a ray of hope in our divided nation. Yes, you are annoyingly glued to your cellphones, but you have so many positive traits that seem lacking in too many of my generation: you are more tolerant of those different from yourselves, you are more collaborative in your approach to problems and activities, you seem less materialistic, and you have a deeper appreciation for the need to address climate change.

Please know that there are a lot of Moms like me who welcome your engagement and development as the leaders of tomorrow. Keep up your optimism!

And I can’t sign off without a little Mom nagging: Have you registerd to vote yet? Why not? When are going to do it? You need to schedule it in your calendar or you will just keep putting it off and then it will be too late. So did you put it in your calendar yet?

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Well said @Greenghosty!

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Any word on when decisions will be out? I feel like I’m moments away from a nervous breakdown.

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DS got into UMich, DA to Kelley school of business at Indiana, Gies school of business at UIUC, Penn State Smeal school of business and Wisconsin school of business…UMich his first choice but waiting on acceptance into UM Ross school of business. Got scholarship money from Kelley but nowhere else yet. Lots of decisions

OOS illinois
ACT 30
GPA 3.98w/4.46 weighted
4 year all honors courses
5 APs and one dual business class
Varsity hockey and lacrosse player, NHS, big brother, Spanish club, ISS…Leadership awards and service project top award…very good ECs and recommendations

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does anyone know when decisions will come out…?