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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like these are so interesting to me bc I didn't put much stock in towns when applying to colleges beyond the safety around campus factor.  I can't imagine writing off a school like Purdue due to the town, especially if I wanted to pursue engineering.  Purdue is its own town!

But anyway, different strokes.[/quote]

The fact it's an hour from the airport is a turnoff for us.  That gets costly to arrange travel at every break.  Not to mention, I'd rather my DD not be in an Uber/Lyft alone for an hour (I'd want the same for a DS).  very different than a 10-15 min ride for many schools.

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FWIW, IU has a shuttle from Bloomington to the airport and vice versa.  Purdue might have something similar.[/quote]

Shuttles are great until your kid's flight is delayed and doesn't land until midnight or 2 am and the shuttles have stopped running.  Then you are out $150+ in whatever cab/uber/lyft you can get at that hour.  As it is my kid would have 2 plane rides for any school like that, then to add a 1-2 hour car ride, made it no for us.  As it is the have a 4 hour flight and then a 1 hour flight, but they are only 5-10 mins from the airport.  Sometimes the layover is 4+ hours so you leave home at 3:45am (6:45 am time at school) and it's 6/6:30pm when they get to the dorm.  So us personally were not willing to do places that would then add 2 hours of waiting for shuttle/car/uber and then the ride.  
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