Thank you for the details. Is there a webpage that has this information? Looks like just 2 courses - so one would assume one can declare for CS major after the 1st Semester? Does anyone have a child who has done this in a previous year?
accepted OOS
L&S Neurobiology
SAT 1510
4.0 UW GPA
6 APs (As many as offered)
2 years research (45 weeks a year)
4 years model un (2 years of president)
Religious leadership
Started climate club
Other strong ECs and Community Service
Great Table!
Here is info for my son: Accepted to engineering major, GPA (UW) 4.0, 13 APs, 1570 SAT. Also accepted Purdue, Texas A&M and Maryland. Deferred at U Michigan. Still waiting on UT Austin decision.
Congrats everyone accepted and good luck to deferred!
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If i am going to accept my offer, do I have to pay my deposit right away or can I pay it in a few days?
3.9 UW, 4.6 weighted. 7 AP (all A’s) 2 dual enrollment college classes, and a great essay imo as I read it and edited it a million times 
soccer 4 years, lots of EC and some volunteer work.
By May 1
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Is this from U of Wisconsin?
Here is the link:
Computer Sciences FAQs for Prospective Students – Computer Sciences – UW–Madison.
You can declare CS major as soon as you meet the requirements.
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Most every school in the US is by May 1.
There may be advantages to paying/committimg earlier - housing for example.
But you asked - can you pay in a few days. Yes. At Wisc, for Fall, by May 1.
So In a few days - yes.
This way all kids have chances do compare offers. Many kids don’t have decisions yet.
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Unfortunately, there is no advantage to paying/committing earlier for Wisconsin Madison housing. As long as your housing contract and deposit is signed by May 1 it is lottery style. You fill out your preferences but are not not guaranteed anything. Also, UWMadison is unique in that they do NOT require first year students to live on-campus but approximately 90% do.
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D24
OOS (MN)
3.78 UW, 10 AP/IB, 4 HON
TO
Deferred (Biomedical ENGR)
Do Engineering kids get admitted in RD after deferral? I would guess the chances are small but I can find no info to get a good sense.
Luckily already admitted to UMN and Purdue.
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What do they mean by grade of “BC”?
I copied from other response:
Apparently, Wisconsin admits by school, not by major. Students admitted to L&S need to meet certain requirements to declare for CS. The bar is pretty low. Just two courses. See below.
Contrary to what many believe, students are not admitted directly into the CS major. Students will spend time as a non-declared student while they work towards the major declaration requirements outlined below. Students can declare the CS major as soon as they have satisfied those major declaration requirements, which will take most students two semesters.
The requirements to declare the CS major are as follows:
Completion of COMP SCI 300 and (MATH 222 or 276)
Grade of BC or higher in an introductory programming course (COMP SCI 300, 354, or 400)
taken at UW-Madison
2.250 GPA or higher in the first attempt of the following courses: COMP SCI 300 and (MATH
222 or 276)
Once these requirements are met, students must fill out an online major declaration form.
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UW–Madison doesn’t have A-/B+/B-/C+. Instead, it uses a grading scale that contains letter grades AB and BC which correspond to GPAs of 3.5 and 2.5, respectively. See Valid Grades – Office of the Registrar – UW–Madison for more details.
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For the table maker and future years …
Denied
S24 OOS (IL Chicago area)
Applied for finance in school of business
3.5 UW/4.2 W
1380
Varsity sport/DECA/competitive summer program/part time jobs
Accepted to IU Kelley, MSU, Maryland
Denied UIUC
Good luck to all deferred!
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Pilate, I cannot thank you enough for your efforts in tabulating the information offered by those on this thread. Certainly, you are working with biased, self-reported data from the very limited sample set of those who are on this list (which, as you noted, may be highly skewed by people not wanting to submit whether they were rejected or deferred). I never thought you suggested that the summary was statistically predictive or anything like that.
I do appreciate that you tabulated this information (which is hard to track through all the messages on this thread). I am very grateful for the time, effort, and skill you invested here to help the rest of us.
Thank you, also, for replying to my concern about the out-of-state acceptance rate published in that newspaper article. I did not think that 18% OOS acceptance rate seemed right, but I did not have other information to rebut that figure.
My son was deferred at Wisconsin-Madison, which was (is?) his first choice but was accepted at Michigan. (OOS, non-GPA high school/second in his class, multiple AP classes, many ECs, multiple varsity sports, chose not to submit test scores.) I appreciate the information because my son seems to be making up his mind that Michigan was his first choice all along - but he did not believe he would get into Michigan. (Statistically, it did appear he had a much better chance of getting into Wisconsin than Michigan). I am grateful so grateful for your efforts in collecting the information because, even if the table should not be considered statistically-predictive, it presents information that I might share with my son in considering whether to wait until 3/31 before making up his mind or before we schedule a trip to the Midwest.
Thank you, Pilate - thank you very much.
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Does UW-Madison offer admitted student visits for engineering? I only see prospective student events.
Thank you !
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OOS REJECTED
Female
Private day school Midwest
34 ACT, 3.78GPA
High rigor including AP Calc BC
Unique language 4 years
Competitive dance 4 years
Overnight camp counselor 2yrs and camper before
At school tennis and squash, yearbook editor & some other small club involvement
Honest essays
Prob average LOR
Wanted big rah rah
Father attended
Applied undecided maybe bio maybe business (interests addressed in essay)
Any ideas on what went wrong?
The 3.78 is unweighted