Business and Math (BAM) Bridge Program
Thursday, August 20 | 9:00am – Thursday, August 27 | 4:30pm
Build your math confidence. Start your business journey a step ahead.
The Business and Math (BAM) Bridge program is an early-start program for incoming first year students, built to boost your math skills and set you up for success in your first semester of math at UW–Madison and beyond.
In the program, you will:
- Refresh and strengthen your math skills.
- Meet and learn from UW–Madison instructors and clued into campus resources
. - Gain access to ALEKS, an online math skill development program.
- Participate in a mini business case competition.
- Build connections with other first year students.
- Retake the placement exam on the final day—and hopefully improve your score!
With a higher placement score, you can enroll in a more advanced math course and set you up for a stronger start to your college career. Business is a quantitative field, and we want you to thrive in math during your time at UW–Madison.
Ready to improve your math placement?
Register using the form linked below by August 1! (Late submissions are not accepted.)
When you sign up, you’ll receive a confirmation email and an email containing your ALEKS program license to help you prepare ahead of the program. Please watch your wisc.edu email in July/early August for next steps.
Program details
Eligibility
If you’re an incoming first year student who placed into a pre-calculus course, BAM is for you!
Schedule
If you would like more details about programming or the time commitment, you can view the BAM schedule here. Please check back closer to the event date for the most up-to-date information.
You must participate in all scheduled programming, including Saturday and Sunday.
If you have other UW–Madison obligations, let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
Housing
If you’re living in a UW–Madison residence hall, you will be assigned an early move-in date/time during the morning of Wednesday, August 19.
If you have questions or if August 19 doesn’t work for you, reach out to us: successandpolicy@wsb.wisc.edu.
If you have issues with move-in logistics, contact the Residence Life staff: reslife@housing.wisc.edu.
Meals
Lunch will be provided throughout program (August 20–27). On move-in day (August 19), funds for an evening meal will be provided.
Cost
The program is free! However, there is a fee to move into the dorms early ($280), and there may be other expenses that come with living in Madison before school starts.
Scholarships to cover the early move-in fee are available. If you need financial support, please indicate on your sign-up survey.
Set yourself up for success with ALEKS
When you sign up for BAM, you’ll gain access to an online math skill development program called ALEKS. This program will help you brush up on your skills so you’re ready to take on the pre-calculus curriculum covered in BAM.
We will be hosting several virtual Q&A sessions about ALEKS. These sessions will take place on Zoom:
- Tuesday, June 16 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Wednesday, July 1 | 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
- Friday, July 17 | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Access the Zoom sessions here!
Do not re-take the placement exam before attending BAM.
You only get one opportunity to re-take the math placement exam. To maximize your chance of placing into a higher course, please save your re-try for the final day of BAM.
Have questions about your math placement and/or re-taking the exam? Ask your academic advisor at SOAR.
Have questions about BAM?
Email us at successandpolicy@wsb.wisc.edu