@dunnowheretogo My DD is a junior in DuPage County…where do you live? Your thinking is right on! My husband and I both went to UIUC and would not send our daughter there. We visited UW last summer and WOW-it has everything! Another girl in one of my daughter’s classes in interested in UW too, so it seems us Midwesterners may be catching on to its appeal. We wish you the best of luck and agree with previous posters to take everything you read online with a grain of salt!