<p>Major:Engineering (chemical)</p>
<p>I'm from Minnesota so it would be cheaper to go to Madison, but i've always wanted to go a little bit further away from home.</p>
<p>I would choose UW Madison.</p>
<p>IMO, it has a better atmosphere, better chemical engineering program and it's cheaper.</p>
<p>I think i am leaning towards madison right now.
I just wish less people from my school were going too. gaah.</p>
<p>Have you been to Chambana??</p>
<p>i haven't visited there yet.
i went there a few years ago because my cousin graduated there with like summa cum laude and all the highest honors possible. I wasn't really interested in colleges at the time so i didn't really notice what it was like there.</p>
<p>However, madison is in the city. and i love the city.</p>
<p>Madison>UC</p>
<p>UW is such an easy call in these circumstances, unless you're in love with corn. I promise that you can lose your high school classmates in a crowd of 50,000.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin- Madison</p>
<p>UIUC's engineering programs have a clear edge over Madison's but since you'd pay OOS tuition at U of I (around $45K...not worth it) and since Madison is a nicer school overall, I'd go to UW.</p>
<p>^
USNWR Rankings: Undergraduate engineering specialties: Chemical
Ranked in 2009</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
2 University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA
3 University of Wisconsin--Madison Madison, WI
4 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
5 Stanford University Stanford, CA
6 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
7 University of Texas--Austin Austin, TX
8 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
9 University of Delaware Newark, DE
10 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI </p>
<p>UIUC strength in engineering is unquestionable...however, UW has a (slightly) stronger reputation in chemical engineering. UIUC strengths are civil and electrical engineering.</p>
<p>Only go to UW Madison if you are white.</p>
<p>if you are from minnesota, why dont you go to University of Minnesota--Twin Cities?</p>
<p>Go to Madison.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about too many kids from your hs going to Madison. In 2008, there were over 5,000 entering first year students, 29,000 undergraduates, and over 40,000 total students. The probability that you can avoid the kids from your hs is pretty high. They may be of some use though especially for rides home.</p>
<p>I don't know why corn is always mentioned in UIUC topics. You don't actually see any cornfields within campus, jeez.</p>
<p>Yes, you do. Just south of campus is cornfields.</p>
<p>Definitely Madison.</p>
<p>Where in Minnesota? There are a ton of kids in my school going to Madison next year too, and I probably will in two years.</p>
<p>"if you are from minnesota, why dont you go to University of Minnesota--Twin Cities?"</p>
<p>Minnesota and Wisconsin have tuition reciprocity. This means that residents of either state can attend universities in the other state at in-state tuition rates.</p>
<p>So for the OP, Wisconsin is effectively in-state while UIUC is OOS.</p>
<p>@Take3: I gotcha! Thanks man</p>
<p>At Wisconsin, for the incoming freshman class in Fall 2008, 482 out of 5,774 students, or 8.3%, are from Illinois. See <a href="http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/images/reportClassOf2008.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/images/reportClassOf2008.pdf</a> (Note that while this link uses projected numbers, it's unlikely that the actual proportion is significantly different.)</p>
<p>At UIUC, for new beginning freshmen in Fall 2008, 12 out of 7,299 students, or 0.2%, have a permanent home address in Wisconsin. See <a href="http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/stuenr/abstracts/fa08Freshman_ten.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/stuenr/abstracts/fa08Freshman_ten.htm</a></p>
<p>Thus, the proportion of Illinois residents who are incoming freshmen at Wisconsin is more than 40 times higher than the proportion of Wisconsin residents who are incoming freshmen at UIUC.</p>
<p>The population of the state of Illinois is about 2.3 times higher than for the state of Wisconsin. As per Wikipedia, there are 12,901,563 people in Illinois and 5,627,967 people in Wisconsin. However, this discrepancy is still huge even if adjusting for the relative size of each state.</p>
<p>Also, the financial penalty for a Wisconsin resident attending UIUC instead of Wisconsin is greater than the financial penalty for an Illinois resident attending Wisconsin instead of UIUC. However, in either case, the financial penalty for going out of state is thousands of dollars. Generally, people expect significant added value when spending such amounts of money.</p>