A school I can’t say I hated but oldest D said was her #1/2 was Northwestern. She loved the campus, the feel and the Lake (in summer). She like the Engineering presentation, I felt it didn’t address the goals she had said were important to her such coop experience (more difficult during quarters vs. semesters). I also didn’t want to drive through Chicago every time we needed to drop her off or pick her up or have to deal with the northern IL winters on those trips. I felt that even if they made it affordable, our middle class kid would have potentially felt our of place. In the end she did not get accepted there and has graduated from Purdue which was her other #1/2. We were elated though we tried to act appropriately disappointed for her when the NU decision came in.