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[quote=Anonymous]Iowa State in Ames was our biggest surprise.  Beautiful campus and Ames was picturesque and open minded.  Diversity and gay friendly.  The people were wonderful.  I didn't realize what a huge engineering school it has.  Pretty decent merit aid and with their low OOS cost, made it the same as in-state.

Indiana has a top business school.  Decent merit aid.

Purdue was fantastic.  That was a another big surprise.  Felt more urban than I thought it would.  Great college town and only 1 hour from Indy and 2 from Chicago.  Half the kids are OOS but they don't offer too much merit, since so many are willing to come and pay full price.

Georgia has a great honors program and merit aid.  Pretty campus, but far from an airport.

USC is really nice and gives out merit aid that can makes it less than 20K a year to go there including R/B.

Arizona State was another massive surprise.  Beautiful updated campus. Palm trees galore and sunny warm days all year round.  Honors college is top notch.  Dorms are all huge and have their own bathrooms.  Journalism, business, and engineering are huge there.  free bus system and only 15min to Phoenix or Scottsdale.  Tempe has a lot going on, on it's own though. Fantastic merit rivals or is cheaper than in-state options.

U of Arizona was nice too, but I wasn't as big of a fan of Tucson.  The airfare was always more and the merit wasn't as nice as Arizona.  It felt more commuter since they don't have as many OOS or international.

Washington is gorgeous, but the weather is just so cloudy and rainy.  My daughter's good friend is there and the snow, fog, forrest fire ash, etc... on top of the copious amounts of rain has been hard this year.  She does love it though.

Michigan and Wisconsin are very popular for east coast kids, but my daughter didn't want the snow and they don't offer merit that makes them worth the cost in my opinion.  Sticker shock on Michigan costs.

University of Florida is another campus that feels like you are on vacation.  Happy kids, great school.  Coming up quick in the rankings and getting tough to get into OOS.  Not much merit since in-state is dirt cheap ($6,500 a year!) and they take a lot of instate kids.

Texas-Austin is wonderful.  The city of Austin is the enclave of democrats and diversity in an otherwise pretty miserable state.  Very hard to get in since they take up to 85% in-state and they offer little to no merit.

I have yet to visit Minnesota but my daughter's friend is there and loves it.

And Pitt is great too.  [/quote]

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