This fall, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment (OAR) hosted a number of events to engage with high school counselors. In Illinois, OAR hosted four events that included counselor breakfasts in Oak Brook and Skokie and a more focused breakfast for counselors who serve students in the south suburbs of Chicago. OAR also offered a …
After two years, our Experience Wisconsin Open Houses—the largest undergraduate prospective student events we host on campus—are back! On Friday, October 14 and Friday, October 21, we will welcome future Badgers and their families to campus for a full day of discovery and exploration. Guests will fully customize their experience by choosing from a variety …
On Friday, March 11, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment hosted our first Your UW Day of the year. This was our first large in-person admitted student event in two years. We saw 655 attendees, including 268 admitted students. Students and families were able to choose from a variety of afternoon academic and optional sessions, …
On Friday, January 28, we released all first-year Early Action decisions. This release was our largest yet at 36,800 decisions sent to students. These decisions included nearly 19,500 admits, just over 12,000 defer decisions, and around 5,200 deny decisions. Students were notified via email when their decision was available in their MyUW Student Center, with …
This spring, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, schools, colleges, and offices across the university will offer a full suite of in-person and virtual events to admitted and prospective students. This year’s admitted student events include three in-person Your UW Days for freshmen, held in March and April, as well as an array of programming …
Freshman students who applied by our Early Action deadline for the Fall 2022 term will be receiving their decision at the end of this month. With our Early Action decision release right around the corner, you may find yourself getting questions from applicants and their families (whether work-related or not), so we want to provide …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will continue to be test-optional for students applying for admission through the spring 2025 term, extending the previous suspension of the test-score requirement. This means ACT and SAT test scores are optional for students applying for fall 2022, spring 2023, fall 2023, spring 2024, fall 2024, and spring 2025. This decision …
The Office of Admissions and Recruitment team is currently focused on reviewing the 38,600+ completed freshman Early Action applications, which equates to us reviewing about 5,600 more applications at this time compared to last year. All Early Action decisions will be released at the end of January, with the exception of our Posse cohort and Chicago Scholars, who already received …
Between August 2021 and December 2021, the Office of Admissions & Recruitment hosted 86 prospective student events and information sessions, with 10,665 registrants and 6,520 attendees as of November 5, 2021. This includes 38 virtual information sessions, panels, and events, including four student panels, one two-day transfer advisor conference, a virtual Open House, and a virtual Transfer Your UW Day. We hosted 48 in-person information sessions …
Our main focus for Fall 2021 continues to be diversifying our applicant pool outside of the U.S. With another cycle of virtual recruitment, we were able to attend visits and fairs in 26 countries, across five continents. We also partnered with EducationUSA to offer a series of workshops on topics related to studying in the …