<p>Guys, I need your advice.</p>
<p>I'm a resident of the state of Wisconsin and admitted to the Honors program of Both UW-Madison and UM. Mich offered me about 10K financial aid (work study and loans), so I still need 20K for tuition and fee. The in-state tuition for Madison is less than 7K. Where do you think I have to go? BTW, I plan to study biology (biochem, molecular bio, cellular bio) and do pre-med. My career goal is to become a surgeon.</p>
<p>I vote for UWISC all the way. I applied there and got in but being out of state is a bankruptcy wish there.</p>
<p>Although I heard (not positive) that UMICH is getting a brand new medical/biology/molecular biology research lab, Wisc seems to be ahead of the game there and has been for some time. EX. Wisc has majors such as Genetics that UMich doesnt have available to undergrads.</p>
<p>Why pay so much more an equal or lesser education?</p>
<p>Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Unless you just want to get out of Wisconsin, and your parents have a bottomless checkbook, there's no way you can justify spending all that extra money for an education that Wisconsin can provide just as well, if not a bit better.</p>
<p>Yes, Michigan is pouring money into life sciences but it's still in the works.</p>
<p>Med school is expensive. I think you'd be smart to go to Wisconsin and save your money (or your loan balance) for med school. My advice would be different if your in-state option was a much lower-quality school, but U-Wisconsin a fine place.</p>
<p>I think wisconsin also has a very strong biology department.</p>
<p>Michigan is playing catch-up in life sciences and UW is not resting. UW has recently built or is building new buildings for biochemistry, microbiology, life sciences research, stem cell research, and flu research.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news.wisc.edu/10446.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.news.wisc.edu/10446.html</a></p>
<p>I'd say visit and see what place fits you. Both schools are great.</p>
<p>Look at this as a business decision. Is a Michigan degree really going to help you that much more than a Wisconsin degree? If you want to go to med school, I doubt it. Save your money.</p>
<p>Thank you!!!! It helps a lot.</p>
<p>They already released notifications for the UW honors program?</p>
<p>Yeah! They do it on a rolling basis.</p>
<p>when'd you send in your application to honors?</p>
<p>If you told me you were pre-law or Business, I would probably have recommended Michigan. But for the pure sciences and pre-med, I would recommend Wisconsin considering the difference is cost.</p>
<p>CCRunner,</p>
<p>UW: I submitted it 45 days ago and was notified about 25 days ago.
UM: I submitted a few days ago and haven't gotten the notification yet.</p>
<p>This is a no-brainer. Graduated Madison, went to grad school at Kellogg. Am doing fine here in Chicago. I believe the in-state cost at UW is about 15-16K. Michigan OOS is around 40K. You will save the 100K; use it to go to grad school instead of taking on a ton of debt.</p>
<p>Employers are indifferent to your undergrad. They look at grades, and WHERE you go to grad school.</p>
<p>Wisconsin. Both schools are great public universities. We live in Michigan, and Wisconsin is the one school I wouldn't let my kids apply to - because they're so similar I couldn't see paying the difference. I've always heard that Madison is like Ann Arbor - but better and prettier. Now that ought to set off a war...</p>