| My S just fnished his freshman year in MT at IWU and he absolutely loved the program and the school. It is a beautiful campus as has been mentioned before and honestly the fact that Bloomington is a little sleepy didn't bother him a bit - beisdes their incredibly busy schedules, there were always so many activities on campus (concerts, shows, comedy acts, improv groups plus the usual footbal and basketball games, etc.) Plus, Chicago and St. Louis are short train rides away so a trip to the big city is very close by. He was definitely sad that Tom is leaving but he had many other amazing teachers so he knows the quality of the prgram will remain high. The academic level of the students is definitely high so his academic classes are challenging as well. He got a good talent scholarship ($10K) so that was a plus. I don't know how many auditioned this year but there were about 120 the year he auditioned. There are 6 in his MT class - 4 boys and 2 girls. S thought that they would be taking a few more girls for theclass entering the fall after this becuase the class of 2007 has a lot of phenonmenal girls that will be graduating. Just to echo a couple of things mentioned earlier - the food is amazing and residence halls are great. Next year S will be living in a huge manison converted to a residence hall "Blackstock Hall" that is a theater house. If you need any other info, feel free to PM me. |