Signing Up for January SOAR

To accept your offer of admission:

• Log in to the MyUW portal.
• Click on Student Center down arrow/icon and select “Applicant Homepage”. Your Student Center also gives you access to other personalized information, including your financial aid package.
• Click on the tile page with “Admissions”
• Within the Admissions tile, it has “Application Status”; it will show you the applications that you have submitted.
• Accept/Decline Admission: follow the instructions it gives you to officially confirm.
• You will then pay the $100 deposit online. It is applied toward your tuition and fees for the first semester and is not refundable after the confirmation deadline.

To complete accept your offer of admission and pay your enrollment deposit by check or money order, please complete and submit the Enrollment Deposit Form.

You must accept your offer of admission by December 15, or within 10 days from the date of your admission (whichever is later).

If you have any questions about this process, please contact the Office of Admissions and Recruitment.

Your NetID is your username and password combination which allows access to University services, such as your MyUW portal and wisc.edu email through Office 365. You must have an active NetID to be able to register for SOAR.

MyUW is the UW-Madison student portal that you will use to access your student records and complete important tasks, such as: accepting your admission offer, reviewing your financial aid package, the Preparing for SOAR module, and more.

To activate your NetID:

• Locate the 10-digit campus ID number from your admissions letter.
• Follow these instructions to complete the process: NetID – Activating Your Account

If you’ve activated your NetID but have forgotten your NetID password, you can reset it online with the NetID Password Reset Tool. If you have forgotten your NetID, you can recover it using the self-service NetID Recovery Tool.

After accepting your offer of admission, be sure to check your Admitted Student Checklist! These lists from the Office of Admissions and Recruitment will help you keep track of when other important tasks are due before Spring semester begins:

Admitted Freshman Checklist

Admitted Transfer Checklist

Admitted International Student Checklist

If you are a student who deferred their enrollment to Spring 2023 from a previous semester, please complete the following tasks:

1) Contact the Office of Admissions and Recruitment to check your admission status: You must confirm with the Office of Admissions and Recruitment that you intend to start UW-Madison courses in Spring 2023 so they can activate you for the Spring term. This must be done before you will be eligible to start your SOAR reservation.

2) Activate your Missing NetID Services: This important action ensures that you will have access to your Wiscmail (@wisc.edu account) and other important software licensed by the University. Please complete this task after you accept your offer of admission. Note: Reactivation of these services takes approximately 48 hours after you click “Activate Services”.

UW-Madison has over 230 undergraduate majors and certificates. Use the UW Guide to explore all our academic programs and filter by interest area.

This guide from the Office of Undergraduate Advising will help you learn more about our SOAR advising groups and how academic advising works both during and after SOAR.