Indiana vs. Iowa

Izzie
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:08:51 +0000

Sorry, I don’t know a whole lot about Iowa, but I have been there and it looks like a very nice school. The student body appears to be pretty midwestern and not terribly diverse. I took my soon-to-be senior son there and he preferred Indiana. We went on perhaps the worst weather day of the year with driving freezing rain so I’m sure that had something to do with it. If he didn’t like Indiana so much, I would take him back for another visit because I’m sure he would like it. I know several students that go there and they like it a lot, especially the hard partiers. The campus and the town are very pretty.

My son has chosen Indiana as his first choice. He has filled out the application online but hasn’t sent it in yet because his schedule for this year hasn’t been finalized. He will probably go there if he is accepted which he should have no problem with. He has grown up in a Big 10 town so his criteria for a school is that it be Big 10, not too close to home and not too far away so that leaves Indiana, Iowa and Purdue. Once he saw Indiana, he loved it.

It just seems to me that if you are from Southern CA and your first choices of schools are at the beach or in the desert that you might not be really happy with a midwestern school.