So UW-Madison is having trouble finding top students who want to attend, according to a March 1 article titled â??With less scholarship cash, UW is losing high achievers.â? I wonder where theyâ??re looking. They might consider looking in their own backyard. Madison West High School boasts 30 National Merit Finalists, roughly 5.5 percent of the senior class this year. Yet it seems that sharing a ZIP code with the university is a marked disadvantage when it comes to admission. This was driven home for us when our daughter, a National Merit Finalist who named UW-Madison her first choice school, was neither congratulated, recruited nor admitted to the university.
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