Wisconsin-Madison Case Study

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I was assured that I wanted to apply to the University of Wisconsin-Madison when I was researching universities, and saw Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 12th in the nation for its economics program by U.S. News. I also found on U.S. News that Economics was one of Wisconsin-Madison's most popular degrees. Economics has been a major passion of mine for quite some time, and I know I want to study the distribution of resources in my college career.

After being won over by Madison's rigorous economics program, I decided to do a bit more research into the school. Just some of the major things I liked about the University is that it is the perfect size, its optimal location, and the school's abundance of student organizations. Madison's larger size leads to much more diversity of people and …show more content…

I come from a smaller city and we have a severe lack of diversity, and I know I want to go to a college that prompts diversity of not only people, but character and ideas. Although a bigger school I saw that Wisconsin-Madison's class size average was 29 students and heard from a Madison alumni that the school was reasonably tight knit which but my worries to rest. Also, University of Wisconsin-Madison's location could not be better. I visited the city of Madison not long ago and took a fancy to the city. The city was vibrant and exciting and seemed booming with opportunity and interesting developments all around. Most importantly, Madison is not far away from northern Illinois, and anyone with a worried mother would know that location is an essential factor. Lastly, I took a liking to the plethora of student activities offered at Madison. I found many of the clubs and activities that were

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