Student Section Arrives from Around U.S. News | September 25, 2024 | 0 | by Morgan McCarthy Less than half of UW-Madison’s new record-breaking freshman class is from Wisconsin. The university released its 2024 freshman enrollment numbers on Monday. There are 85 hundred freshmen this year, a seven percent increase from last year. But just 38-hundred of those kids are from Wisconsin. The rest are from across the country. UW-Madison continues to be a very popular school. The university said nearly 66-thousand would-be freshmen applied to UW-Madison, Nearly 80-percent of them were rejected.