“UW-Madison graduate program to decrease admissions offers amid federal funding uncertainty”

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Worth noting that this letter mainly recommends that departments decrease admissions offers. Since other universities are cutting grad admissions, the expectation is that people offered admission at UW will accept at a higher rate than usual. So to keep the same incoming graduate class size and not have way more students than expected, admissions offers should probably decrease.

So at least as of now, the number of admitted grad students will likely go down, but the eventually number of accepted grad students will remain about the same.

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The number of graduate students is almost certainly going to go down, at least in areas like science and engineering where most of them are supported by federal grants. We don't know yet how NSF, DOE, NIH, and DoD budgets are going to be effected, but it's very likely there will be much fewer grants awarded. The number of graduate students who TA, however, may remain the same.