University of Wisconsin-Madison Top Questions

Madison is, and will continue to be seen as, a party school. If you're coming for the parties, they're here. If you're coming for the lenient laws, they're here. And if you're coming for world-class sports teams that make all that raucous partying happen, they're here. But UW-Madison is much more than that, and this is true because of scale. Madison is a college town, and as such the student body largely lives on campus for only their first and perhaps second year. Students are active in the communities they reside in off-campus, and help blend the line between student community and All The Rest. What does this mean? It means that here, you have access to anything. Politics are right down State Street at the Capitol, world-class research (even for Undergrads!) is done on campus and on the near west side, numerous companies hire students constantly, and there is always good food.

The stereotypical Wisconsin student does not exist. We come from all over (UW's out of state population comes out to 40{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the student body) and are here to one real reason: to learn. The stereotypical mentality; however, is that everyone parities non-stop. There are kegs in the dorm bathrooms and that all anybody does in Wisconsin is drink. These stereotypes are true depending on where you live and where you put yourself. Obviously, UW is a GREAT school. The people that party non-stop first semester eiher drop out quickly or come back second semester a "changed person." It's big time academics and it takes people a little while to realize it. The stereotype exists... but it goes away. That's the real answer.