How promising is BME at Iowa?

UncannyCrayon
Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:45:59 +0000

I think it is going to come down between UIUC and Iowa.
UIUC I know is not very generous when it comes to need, often only meeting 70 to 80 percent of it. But I do live in Illinois, Rockford (ouch-yeah tell me about it) to be exact.

Iowa, on the other hand, is going to give me the 4300 per year for OOS merit.
If Iowa gives me a great aid package, that coupled with guaranteeing my desired major (at UIUC I have been told that BME doesn’t have a huge capacity so only ~100 are allowed with no transfers in, meaning only those with mega stats are allowed in) and that little bit of free money and the internship opportunities may be too hard to pass up.

More information will be known in December when UIUC tells me what I’m allowed to be in. If they say no engineering at all Iowa seems to be the place. If they say yes to engineering and yes to BME—my situation will be very interesting and it will likely come down to aid packages.