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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a great situation in Illinois. There's only one very highly regarded option, it's pretty expensive even in-state, and they let in lots of out of state students to cover the shortfall in funding because it's been underfunded by the state. They give virtually no merit aid. [/quote]

48.4 percent of Illinois public high school graduates enrolled in four-year universities in 2017 attended out-of-state institutions.[/quote]

Maybe that's because while UofI is highly rated (and yes, is extremely difficult to get into especially for engineering/CS), there are no real choices other than UofI.  The other state schools are at a much lower level of academics.  Also, many students may just want to get out of Illinois, or more specifically don't want to attend school in a [b]rural, isolated area[/b] (Have lived in Illinois, have relatives in those rural areas, so I speak from experience) 
 Maybe they want an urban area.  Or maybe they just don't want to attend such a large university with 34K undergrads.  If they want smaller and/or more urban, there really are not any viable state choices in Illinois.

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Usually when people complain about rural isolated schools they aren’t talking about large college towns with regular public transit [/quote]

I agree that this isn't a rural college with only 2K student type of school.  But UofI is still in a rural area; it's not urban.  Very different than say UW Madison or UM Ann Arbor.  Outside of the Chicago area the state of IL is rural---been there, done that, lived there, have relatives still living there.  So yes, Champaign/Urbana is a "vibrant" college town due to over 40K students (grad and undergrad), it is only a college town and still a 2 hour drive from Chicago, with farms being the only thing in between.  There is nothing around them except the college town.  
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that's why so many go to that booming metropolis of *checks notes* Iowa City. Or West Lafayette. Or Oxford, OH. Yeah, that's it.[/quote]

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