Committee on Undergraduate Recruitment, Admissions, and Financial Aid - January Meeting

Our committee has been accumulating information in order to make recommendations to the Office of Admissions by the end of this semester. Each meeting is meant to gather information about the various aspects of this committee (recruitment, admissions, financial aid) through talking with people knowledgeable in each area. Here is a summary of the January meeting:


Kathy Cramer Walsh, Political Science - How Wisconsinites View UW-Madison

• Wisconsinites are proud of our sports, marching band, and research


• They are not happy with admissions, cost, and partying.


• Many Wisconsinites view UW faculty as lazy, liberal, and elitist.


• Kathy found that not as many rural students apply to UW but those who apply do very well in both admissions to UW and perform equal to others in grades once here.

I'm hoping some of you reading this will have suggestions as to how we can better reach out to the rest of Wisconsin...

As of Monday, February 2, the Office of Admissions and the Office of Visitor & Information Programs have been combined into 1 office, headed by the Director of the Office of Visitor & Information Programs.