Rhodes College VS UW-Madison

TTG
Sat, 06 May 2017 13:15:35 +0000

“Worth it” is hard to say. It really depends on your family circumstances. And you have 2 (or 3) great choices. YOUR preferences, and the cost, are what it comes down to. The schools are different, but you can see, all very respected institutions (Wisconsin does have a higher international profile). Just weigh what you’ve read here in terms of your family circumstances and personal preferences. You will be living and studying in one of these places, not your family and not all of us.

Is the price difference easily affordable for your family?

Does weather make much of a difference to you? New London will have big snowstorms most winters and lots of mornings with temp in teens or twenties (Fahrenheit). Memphis will probably be hot in September, but students can often just wear light jackets much of the winter, though it certainly gets cold sometimes.

Both Rhodes and Conn Coll are small LAC communities with close collaboration between students and professors. Wisconsin is almost a small city in itself and closely integrated into Madison.

More to do in Memphis or Madison on a Friday or Saturday night, but New London is closer to NYC and Boston for weekend trips. Some students would never want to make a weekend trip, or could not afford to do it much. Others would want to do it a lot.

With some typical prudence and caution, all are safe communities where you and your family can feel that you will be okay. It doesn’t sound like there is much difference here.

Tennessee in general will be more socially and politically conservative than Connecticut, though I’m guessing the Rhodes community will be more socially and politically liberal than the state in general.

Rhodes and Wisconsin have a business major, Connecticut does not.

Good luck and let us know what you decide. When do you have to let the schools know? It seems like it would be now.