Urban1996, are you serious about academics? If so, Santa Clara University isn’t even close to UW-Madison in terms of your education, as well as many other resources. And, unless Santa Clara University gave you a nice financial aid package that makes it hard to beat, I can’t see any reason other than weather to choose SCU.
And I say this having lived in both areas, and having been accepted to peer institutions as an undergrad in both areas. Example: a peer institution to UW-Madison would be UCSD, not SCU. And this does not imply that UCSD is better, nor worse, than UW-Madison. They both have many strengths, and attract students from all over.