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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  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.  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]

Seriously?   i think going to a Big Ten university town in the Midwest or a funky desert city in the Southwest for four years would appeal precisely because they're each so very different from the same old same old mid-Atlantic scenery DCUM readers are so familiar with.  Some DCUM readers are as parochial in their worldview as that old New Yorker cover of "a New Yorker's View of the World" -- civilization stops at Pittsburgh with little isolated colonies in Ann Arbor, Evanston, Hyde Park, the Bay Area, and Westwood.

And actually Iowa and Arizona are two universities that stand out for being relatively highly ranked for ed quality (certainly in the top half of nationwide flagships) relative to their (high) acceptance rates.  Congratulations to OP for not being limited by the usual DCUM biases. [/quote]

My East Coast kid went to Iowa, and then to Michigan for grad school, and now has great friends, a lovely girlfriend, and a job with benefits lined up that is also in the Midwest (but not Chicago) and would allow him to transfer back to the East Coast if he were so inclined.  Which he isn't, at least not for now.  He knew he wanted to get away with the extreme competitiveness of the DC area, and avoid the schools to which some of his classmates flocked, and hasn't once suggested that he regretted the decision.

"Iowa nice" is a real thing, and the fact that neither he nor anyone in his circle of Midwestern friends and co-workers would likely waste more than a minute's time arguing over Iowa compared to Arizona, at least not as if their lives depended on it, is just one of their redeeming qualities. [/quote]

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