<p>Iowa schools are strong, but not nessecarily the best. Iowa puts a lot of its education budget towards k-12 over colleges. Iowa does have awesome k12 programs and are one of the top states for ACT, which has headquarters in Iowa.</p>
<p>Actually, a lot of people from Illinois go to Iowa schools... I live near Iowa City and I know that there are a ton of students at the University of Iowa from the Chicago/Rockford area. You definitely won't be alone as an Illinoisan :)</p>
<p>But yeah, I think Iowa schools are pretty good overall. My school is ranked in the top 1000 high schools nationally...</p>
<p>There are even a decent number of people from Chicago going to my local community college. In my Comp class, there was 3 people from Chicago out of 20 or so.</p>
<p>3 hours drive from twin cities, not bad.
FYI. Chicago native.</p>
<p>So... does anyone think that financial aid will be announced this week?</p>
<p>I'm hoping! Did they say when there going to send them out? I thought I remember reading somewhere that roommates will be announced in April so i think that roommates and financial aide should be around the same time. it seems like everything is going on this week with decisions and financial aid at other schools, I would have to expect it is going to happen.</p>
<p>Yeah, most schools send acceptances April 1, so they'd probably want to send out their aid packages soon to be competitive with other schools' offers. I don't see a date anywhere on the website though, so who knows?</p>
<p>The recruiting still continues though. My son just got a call from Northwestern University. He never really seriously considered them and they didn't offer him any merit.</p>
<p>Fin. Aid is up on Acessplus</p>
<p>Oh, great. Thanks.</p>
<p>Financial aid is posted on Access+</p>
<p>Anybody want to post any numbers??</p>
<p>I was pretty happy with what I got.</p>
<p>Where can you tell what you got and have to pay o.o? I am really bad with finance stuff</p>
<p>To find your Aid Award:
Login to AccessPlus---Student tab in Upper Right---financial Aid in left side list---Financial aid Award</p>
<p>Understanding Aid Award pdf:
<a href="http://www.financialaid.iastate.edu/forms/planning/awardletter_09-10.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.financialaid.iastate.edu/forms/planning/awardletter_09-10.pdf</a></p>
<p>has anyone gotten their orientation info yet? I am signed up to go, but I think it said that there would be more information coming in April.</p>
<p>Yep got it on Saturday</p>
<p>me too. going June 11-12th.</p>
<p>yea got it saturday also june 28-29th</p>
<p>grrr…still haven’t gotten mine and I am signed up for June 8-9.</p>
<p>Hang in there, mm99.
I would give admissions a call and ask if they sent an orientation pkg to you. It could have gotten lost in the mail.</p>