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The University of Wisconsin - Madison was a beautiful campus with a countless amount of opportunities to get whatever you want out of your college experience, whether it be top-tier academics, social experiences, career development, or club involvement. With such a large student body, there were plenty of like minded people to enjoy your years at college with. While I was at the school, it was undergoing many facility improvements that promised an even more premium environment than I experienced.... Read More The city of Madison is also a great place to explore and enjoy while not working on your studies.

I am currently a junior at UW-Madison and getting my B.S. in Genetics and Genomics. I chose to go to Madison as I want to go to graduate school and hope to find a career in research. Madison is well known for its many research labs and opportunities on campus, so getting experience in a lab setting was easy to do, and I had many options. However, once coming to Madison, I have seen many, many ways in which the campus (and the entire UW system) is actively contributing to climate change by not taking... Read More sustainable measures around the campuses. The UW foundation is investing in fossil fuel infrastructure, which is then funding the very projects (eg; Line 3) that their students are actively protesting. There are multiple clubs, and many students, on the Madison campus that have repeatedly asked the University to divest away from fossil fuels and commit to cleaner, renewable energy programs that have been ignored. I will not recommend UW-Madison, or any of the other UW campuses, until they have all divested from fossil fuels and invested in their students' futures.

I was excited to come here for the many research opportunities and UW's reputation. However I've discovered that UW-Madison is a performative institution that claims to invest in the futures of its students, but in fact does the exact opposite. They don't support students with diverse identities, refuse to divest from the fossil fuel industry, and worst of all, pretend to care about us and our futures when they really don't. This institution is actively participating in the death of our planet and... Read More disregards the current and future welbeing of humans just to make money.