Participating High Schools

No, Direct Admit Wisconsin is not a mandatory program. Each high school can choose to have students opt in or opt out of participation.

Each participating UW university has its own GPA and course requirements. Students are matched with participating UW universities using progress towards graduation, whether they are on track to complete the required credits for admission to the Universities of Wisconsin and their unweighted cumulative GPA.

It depends on which student information system your district uses. Toolkits and instructions on how to do the setup process in participating Student Information Systems (Skyward, Infinite Campus, PowerSchool) are still being finalized and will be made available to schools soon. The expectation is that the setup process will take less than 30 minutes. More information for school staff is available in the online High School Tool Kit. If you need access to the online tool kit, please contact us at directadmitwi@uwsa.edu. 

We are working with the SIS vendors to plan virtual training and ensure adequate technical support during the setup process. Additional training and promotional materials are available in the online high school toolkit. 

They agree to share the information outlined in the data agreement between the school district and the Universities of Wisconsin and agree to receive communications about Direct Admit Wisconsin.

Student data are shared with Universities of Wisconsin Administration staff by the district to facilitate Direct Admit Wisconsin.

The data sharing agreement is a contract between the Universities of Wisconsin and the participating school districts that outlines how we will use and protect the data you are providing for students who participate in direct admission.

The high school will share the following student data with Universities of Wisconsin: High school and district information, student name, WISEid, high school student ID, graduation year, physical address, email address, GPA, legal sex, and race/ethnicity. Federal guidelines require us to collect race/ethnicity information and is used in aggregate for federal reporting. Demographic information is used for assessment and is not a factor in the direct admission decision process.