July 25, 2025 Direct Admit News

Welcome Direct Admit Wisconsin High School Partners! The first data submission window is now closed. No additional files will be accepted until the second submission window opens on September 9th. The second submission window will close on September 26th.

Key Dates:

On July 22nd: UW Administration sent Direct Admit Wisconsin admission offer letters to students via their high school email.
On August 1: The Direct Admit form will open to students.
Beginning August 1: UW Administration will send Direct Admit Wisconsin admission offer letters to students via US postal mail to the home address in your data submission file.
Beginning August 4: High Schools that use Infinite Campus and Skyward can post copies of the admission offer letter to the parent and student portals using the designated SIS process. This letter has been shared with Skyward and Infinite Campus.
On September 9: A second submission window opens for high schools that did not submit files by July 14th deadline OR high schools who have corrections or additional students that need to be included in Direct Admit Wisconsin due to summer school course completion.
On September 26: The second submission window closes.
Beginning in early October: Students in the second submission window will receive their Direct Admit admission offer letters.

Program Implementation:

Don’t forget!

Starting this year, UW Administration is not communicating to students who will not receive a Direct Admit admissions offer because they do not meet one or more of the eligibility criteria. It is up to each high school to decide how you want to notify or communicate with your “no tier” list of students.

For schools that submitted files in July:

To help students understand what to do next, admission offers included a link to a Next Steps video recorded by members of the UW Administration staff. See the video here!
If students who should have been sent an offer letter tell you they did not receive one, please have them check their spam/junk folders before contacting us.
If updates to student tier status need to be made because a student received no tier or the wrong tier erroneously, or if they completed a summer school course that changed their eligibility, these can be submitted in the second window in September.

For submissions in the second window:

Starting September 9th, you can submit your .csv file and transcript bundle to UW using the process designated by your SIS if you missed the July deadline.

Ensure your IT department adds our IP address and email domains to their “permitted list” so students can receive our emails. This will allow them to verify their identity and link their direct admit information to their admissions portal account.

+ 168.245.113.105
+ go.wisconsin.edu
+ apply.wisconsin.edu.

What’s new for the 2026-2027 cycle?

FERPA notification with opt-in/opt-out

In order to provide you with Direct Admit WI status for admitted students, we will need to ask parents/guardians for permission to share this information back when students are opting into the program. We will provide you with a new sample template with updated FERPA and opt-in/opt-out language. Look for this updated template in the next newsletter.