University of iowa

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Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

[Anonymous]

Look at Iowa State, Nebraska, and Michigan State too.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

My DD with 3.8uw/4.4w 28 ACT got 9k/yr. They offer up to 15k I think. Your kid will probably get closer to 15.

We LOVED it when we visited. Iowa City is a great place with tons to do. Campus was beautiful too.

[Anonymous]

My DD with 3.8uw/4.4w 28 ACT got 9k/yr. They offer up to 15k I think. Your kid will probably get closer to 15.

We LOVED it when we visited. Iowa City is a great place with tons to do. Campus was beautiful too.

Where did she ultimately attend?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

DC was HS class of 2021, 3.8uw/4.1w and 1440 SAT. Iowa offered $12,500/year in merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at Iowa State, Nebraska, and Michigan State too.

Ames is cow country, even for Iowa! And East Lansing is not a pretty town.

[Anonymous]

I live in Iowa City right now for a visiting professorship. It is a very bad school and a very bad town. The end.

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What about fsu or Clemson? Are those SEC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Iowa City right now for a visiting professorship. It is a very bad school and a very bad town. The end.

Can you give any details here? Like what is bad compared to other large publics?

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One of my kids went there. Had a good experience, academically and socially. Got into a top grad school program coming out of Iowa with departmental honors and strong GRE scores, and has a good job back on the East Coast now. Kid was hardy by nature and prepared for the cold winters.

We loved Iowa City when visiting. "Iowa nice" is real.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

DC was HS class of 2021, 3.8uw/4.1w and 1440 SAT. Iowa offered $12,500/year in merit.

I don't know Iowa specifically but don't get caught up in someone's actual statistics. For most of these schools (and a school like Nebraska), once you hit the minimum stat levels, you get X$$s.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

DC was HS class of 2021, 3.8uw/4.1w and 1440 SAT. Iowa offered $12,500/year in merit.

I don't know Iowa specifically but don't get caught up in someone's actual statistics. For most of these schools (and a school like Nebraska), once you hit the minimum stat levels, you get X$$s.

Good to know! Do you think there is a general threshold for merit? For places like Iowa, Indiana, Minn maybe Purdue?

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me about your experience with visits or child attending. Junior DS has visited in-state MD schools and prefers a larger school. Need some OOS back-ups for UMD that aren't too expensive. Not really a SEC guy.

TIA

Iowa isn't inexpensive from out of state. It's $50K out of state tuition/room and board, etc. Plus travel costs.

Do they offer merit aid to OOS students with strongish stats? 3.9UW 10-12 AP classes.

DC was HS class of 2021, 3.8uw/4.1w and 1440 SAT. Iowa offered $12,500/year in merit.

I don't know Iowa specifically but don't get caught up in someone's actual statistics. For most of these schools (and a school like Nebraska), once you hit the minimum stat levels, you get X$$s.

Good to know! Do you think there is a general threshold for merit? For places like Iowa, Indiana, Minn maybe Purdue?

I would assume...except for Purdue which is not like the others (at least not for STEM).