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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it compare to University of Kansas? [/quote]

Both are a little more liberal artsy than you might expect, due to their in-state rivals (Iowa State & Kansas State) serving a lot of students who want more practical educations.

For what it’s worth, both universities get 4 out of 5 stars for academics in the reliable Fiske Guide to Colleges. That should dispel some of your concerns that these schools are just a bunch of farmers learning to use plows (I’ve lived in the Northeast & know what you guys tend to  think of this part of the country).

Kansas has the prettier & more compact campus, with a coherent architectural theme. Iowa’s campus has a very pretty cluster of buildings at its core, with varying styles of buildings elsewhere. Iowa’s campus slopes down on both sides of  river. Kansas’s goes up a gentle hill. In other words, neither campus is flat.

Right across the street from the heart of the Iowa campus is a bustling restaurant/bar district. Kansas’s campus doesn’t have that sort of district adjacent, but it has plenty of fun nearby.

Both schools get their share of suburban Chicago kids, which gives them a bit of an edge.

Both schools accept over 80% of applicants & give merit aid to out-of-staters, making them nice safeties even for students with more than a few Bs on their high school transcripts.

Both are fun & happy places with a majority of students who wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, as hard as that is for most people on the coasts to believe.

If you are out in this part of the country, I suggest you also take a look at Iowa State, Nebraska, Kansas State, Oklahoma, & Oklahoma State. All of which are very pretty, significantly smaller than most Big 10 schools, & offer good automatic OOS merit aid based on GPA & test scores. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of how much merit aid you will receive. Texas Tech is another beautiful school out here with automatic merit, but size-wise it is more like a typical large Big-10 school. 
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