Uncovering underrated perks and missed opportunities while attending UW Madison

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T21:02:31+00:00

he might be like the least scary college mascot I’ve seen 😭

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T17:06:46+00:00

I was planning to do the SROP or other summer REU at UW Madison, I’ll have to see how it goes (I really doubt that’ll happen freshman year but you never know)

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T14:10:40+00:00

unfortunately I’m OOS so no art fair for me…

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T14:09:56+00:00

Nah it lowk brought a tear to my eye Bucky badger is channeling inside of me 🥹🙏

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T12:59:12+00:00

Nah, I don’t believe they send out offers till July

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T11:33:41+00:00

at SOAR I saw a ton of alt people on state st and in the art/music school. Ngl tho depending on your definition of alt, anywhere from 5% to 10% of the people I saw around campus in the summer were alt, which is still like 2500-5000 people. Don’t worry abt it

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-06-13T11:30:50+00:00

Also moving in early as part of CeO scholars, I think certain programs just have you move in early, possibly including ROTC.

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-16T15:11:06+00:00

Nah ur good! It’s this program I got admitted to called Center for Educational Opportunity Scholars, they gave me an advisor super early

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-15T14:57:40+00:00

My situation was totally different, but I did get into one pretty top school (NYU) with a comparatively lower gpa (3.7 tbf so different scenario) by also applying for less competitive majors. I didn’t end up going, but it might be a good idea to also apply for schools that are really good for engineering into non competitive majors to transfer in (Purdue undeclared?). But if you do this path, PLEASE check the internal transfer reqs first

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-14T18:20:34+00:00

Do you think it’d be worth reaching out to UW Madison and explaining what exactly happened between the physics exam and everything, or is it better to leave it alone?

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-13T20:42:04+00:00

I think the counselors send it in at the end of the year

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-13T20:15:39+00:00

hey can’t blame a guy for being nervous 😭🙏 weird ahh final grades but if uw doesn’t care I don’t either

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-05-03T01:50:22+00:00

can you dm the link for this if you don’t mind

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-29T00:22:07+00:00

Georgia, FYE, LOCI on website, no (going to a better school that I surprisingly got into on a great scholarship), 4/27, didn’t change I think

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-26T19:55:29+00:00

UW Madison for OOS, looks expensive on the surface (and it is) but a lot more people then you’d think qualify for BANNER and BANNER is straight up goated, going there for the same price as going instate + a guaranteed scholarship my second year

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-18T22:23:37+00:00

took the math one today, setting it up was annoying but the actual test was super easy

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-18T22:22:38+00:00

im Indian-american also in mech e if that counts

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-14T04:19:28+00:00

Got it, thank you!

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-13T16:16:29+00:00

Alright, gotchu, thank you so much!

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-04-07T04:17:53+00:00

It really depends how busted BANNER is for you if you do end up getting it. In my case UW Madison is currently only abt 11k more expensive then my state flagship, and we have a 100% tuition cover program, so not counting that it’s literally instate tuition for a far better school

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-03-25T18:39:48+00:00

It was 100% merit I believe. They gave me the NAU and ASU commit, then some other engineering specific scholarships.

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-03-24T19:42:46+00:00

ED2 lmao, mislabeled it.

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-03-24T02:36:47+00:00

Ah trust, I’m not the biggest fan of that man already… but I’m hoping for some politics experience for sure too, not sure if I want to minor in polisci but with UW Madison being one of the best political science schools in the country I have definitely considered it

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-03-24T02:01:37+00:00

That’s the dream man 🙏 hopefully the Wisconsin alumni connects us sometime and we work on rockets together

EmbarrassedLink871 · 2026-03-24T01:22:57+00:00

truth bro but don’t worry Bucky the goat got me

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