When Allie Gardner was considering where to go to college, about the only thing the Sun Prairie native knew for certain was she wanted to leave the area.
“I really had no intention of coming to UW-Madison,” says Gardner. In the end, however, the 2009 graduate of Edgewood High School realized she couldn?t afford to pay out-of-state or private college tuition, and Madison was the only UW System campus she had applied to.