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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] The OP doesn't say where they live at all, I didn't assume they are even currently in the midwest. So if not even from the midwest why would they want to stay after graduation? Iowa is getting older and grayer, upwardly mobile young people tend to move out and never come back. Arizona is more attractive to long people for obvious reason as backed up by migration patterns as well. This doesn't seem to be a hard decision. Unless you live in Iowa and want in state tuition, but again, OP is short on the details.[/quote]

Many Americans go to college in places (like New Haven, or Durham, or Ann Arbor, or St Louis, or Rochester) that they have no intention of settling down in once their four years of undergrad are done.  Why is this chain turning into a debate about the merits (or implications) of migrating in perpetuity to Arizona vs Iowa -- not the topic -- as opposed to the relative merits of attending these two (quite distinct) universities?  One suspects that because DCUM readership doesn't know much specifically about either of these two schools, it's filling the void with assertions about where the weather is nicer and where they personally would prefer to live. 
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Except it is relevant because people who attend Arizona so frequently pick it for the weather and little else.  Given that, they also tend to be people who couldn't get into any decent school in California, which includes a whole lot of Californians.  This brings down the quality of classes.  But the area is an interesting change of pace, and the campus is gorgeous.  Can't speak to it, [b]but I'd guess that's not how people choose Iowa, which may be a good thing[/b].[/quote]
I'm from suburban Chicago. Iowa is like THE school of choice for Chicago area kids who didn't get into UIUC (or Wisconsin or Michigan) but still want the big state school experience. No, obviously they're not choosing it for the weather but football, drinking, Greek life, parties? Yes. It's definitely A Thing. not a bad school, but suggesting that it's some bastion of intellectualism compared to Arizona is pretty disingenuous. [/quote]

Okay, so they’re equally bad, I only no Arizona, honest mistake.[/quote]
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