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Wisconsin admission has been known to heavily consider the origin of the applicant along with what he/she is studying as well. If this person is from a Wisconsin "village" and is trying to study agricultural or water science it really is not even a remote surprise. The admissions office wants to promote the higher education of the Wis. villages (and they give them a lot of money as well) and it sees this up-bringing as an extreme educational disadvantage. Additionally, I doubt even with this disadvantage would this applicant make it into UW if he/she was already set on entering one of our premier schools, but if he or she is entering one of our smaller schools, especially those that have become so vastly unpopular that they need to fill them up, then there is no doubt they make it into this school. The assumption of a level playing field at Wisconsin in terms of intelligence is not even remotely correct. Any public university is going to have range, but Wisconsin may have the most because it is elite in a few fields, pretty dang good at a few others, and it has an incredible girth of subjects all sitting at the "high-end public" education level below that. Also, the origin argument. It is pretty interesting that somewhere on this thread someone said they go to UW because they didn't get into Minnesota. Meanwhile, 99 to possibly 100% of Minnesota native UW students got into Minnesota quite easily. There is even a rumor that Madison has had an implemented "Minnesota Quota".