First thing.. Congrats on two good options. It is clear you didn’t research this enough. Go on Facebook and find your peeps at Wisconsin. I live in Chicago and tons of students from here and it’s been a hard get the last 5 year’s. When discussing engineering Wisconsin is a very good school and all national companies know about their engineering programs. You don’t work where you go to school.
Also.. Students from Wisconsin just don’t wake up at 4:00 am to milk the cow’s and take care of the chickens before going to high school. So you will find people that look and act like you. Your peeps! Us Midwest people are also pretty friendly. It’s a beautiful campus and they have good ice cream there. What else could you want?
Do deeper research. I am also not a fan of starting at one campus then switching in another year. Wisconsin is a top program for engineering. Go be an engineer and good luck.