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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  No, suggesting Iowa's some bastion of intellectualism may be disingenuous.

Suggesting it's some bastion of intellectualism compared to Arizona is a pretty apt commentary on Arizona.

is it though? so what is your evidence for this then? [/quote]

Time spent at both, friendship with tenured faculty at both schools.

Look, each of these schools has strengths - they're better schools than many of the deep south flagships that DCUM is recently agog about -- and they're each situated in communities that have real appeal in their own way.   But Iowa shouldn't be dismissed just because most bloviators on DCUM don't really know anything about the Universities of Arizona or Iowa except that one is located where they'd travel to get away from cold weather and the other ... is located in a place they wouldn't travel to.   Or because some ex-Chicagoan who doesn't understand the difference between absolute and comparative judgments recalls it as a school that Chicagoland kids who couldn't get into UIUC attended (guess what, OP's kid probably isn't in the running for UVA or UMD either).  [b]This chain has really let the OP down[/b].[/quote]
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OP needs to let folks know what the major is. That is the only way for people to weigh in on academics since the reality is that neither of these schools are selective state schools. That is why folks are discussing the weather. Frankly, it makes no sense why OP is even choosing between these schools, after visiting most people would have a strong preference for one over the other. The is also a DC centric board. A lot of us would rather gouge our eyes out than live in either Iowa or AZ.[/quote]

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