Indiana vs. Iowa

Izzie
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:44:08 +0000

SoCal, where do you want to end up living after college? If you want to end up in Chicago or Indianapolis, then a midwestern school is great. You will find many alums to network with. If you want to go to New York or back to California, then you won’t find as many contacts through your alumni network. Indianapolis is a wonderful sports town with pro sports and even more non-major sports. They have minor league baseball, and world class swimming and tennis facilities. I just went to USA Swimming Summer Nationals over there a couple weeks ago.

Also, you need to realize that it gets really cold here in the midwest in the winter. It can be a miserable cold, not a nice, brisk, dry cold like when you go skiing at Lake Tahoe. Indiana will have warmer weather than Iowa.

I know plenty of people who went to Indiana and to Iowa. They all loved it and are rabid fans of their respective schools. Most kids who go to college who are reasonably well-adjusted end up loving the school they chose. The ones who don’t either come home to community college or transfer to another school and life goes on. Just pick one. You probably won’t end up going to your safety school anyway.