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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Iowa is a super depressing town and environment with a HARDCORE party culture. Think like as cold as Ithaca but somehow even more remote, and somehow even more depressing, except all the students drink three times as much and are twice as horny.  [/quote]

okay, if you insist:  Tucson is a drab blacktop sprawl with nice winter weather (can't let a sentence go by without commenting on that....) but wretched crime rates - among the most dangerous 10% of metro areas in the country -- and UofA is, apart from a few science grad programs, mostly a cramped party school for SoCal airheads who couldn't get into one of their state schools, and [b]for poorly prepared AZ locals[/b] coming from a state with lower per capita education spending than WV or Mississippi.

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This isn't really true.  Arizona gives free tuition to the top slice of all the public high schools.  Everyone I know went to UofA for free, and were as smart as I am (I went Ivy)--they just wanted to stay close to home and not go into debt.  Rent is pretty cheap too, and there are lots of part-time jobs available to cover rent.  I know lots of UofA grads that went to top grad schools and have great careers now.   I do agree with PPs that the STEM is really strong, and you probably have to fight your way through to good classes more in the humanities.  Econ is also strong there.
I'm also not sure where you're getting the crime rates....the area around the U is really safe.  I can't speak to the larger crime rates in Tucson or Pima County, though.  Agreed that it is, on average, not a rich city.

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+1 to the quality of local students who stay.

Tucson is, for better or worse, highly segregated. Stay out of South Tucson and it's pretty safe. Stay in the university area and north of it, and it's relatively safe and wealthy. Lots of wealth in Oro Valley and the Catalina Foothills.[/quote]

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