@ljtjrose, I agree with your #2 point. We live in Chicago burbs. My D is at Carnegie Mellon, (didn’t even apply to UIUC) which has a tuition in the low 60K like Northwestern. CMU gave her a large merit award, and my H and I are super happy to be paying a total bill of 10K per year (including housing). CMU has been very generous. Good luck to your son.
@gator88NE, don’t know how you posted the pic (I can’t figure out how to do it), but Illini billboard in your post was a result of a Northwestern football campaign that really riled up UIUC alums. Link here
http://www.laketheposts.com/2014/08/08/nu-marketing-b1g-picture-strategy/
Hmmm, but NJ is larger than DE, RI, CT, MA, VT, NH, but has a large percentage of students going out-of-state than those other smaller states.
At the other end of the scale, the states with >=75% of students staying in-state and >=75% in-state students in the schools in the state are CA, GA, LA, MI, NE, NV, OH, TX.
@Zinhead, seems that the suburban kids prefer a college town/pretty campus while the city kids prefer an urban school.
BTW, as that post earlier up in this thread showed, Chicago still draws by far the most B10 alumni in the Midwest (2nd is actually NYC).
From now until 2025, Chicagoland is projected to add as many people as the Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indy, Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincy metro areas added together.
IL is to the US as Greece is to the European Union in some ways. Chicago’s bubble is very real indeed. NPR just mentioned this morning the IL debt - is it $6 trillion? Did I mis-hear?
Foreign students come to where others from their country have had a good experience, or where it has logistically worked out along with the curriculum and costs. Word of mouth sure had UIUC get on the radar.
A cousin’s son from Europe has several choices for US schools, but has to compete against other students in his program for the specific US college. This is for study abroad only, not to obtain a US college degree.
The very wealthy from China have their child in US HS. The one at our HS had homes in several cities in China. Not sure if dad was a political chief or a technical chief of power plants/etc over vast areas.
Bad but not $6 trillion bad. As of last year, IL’s debt was about $321 billion. I’m sure it’s higher now. State pensions are definitely in danger. It’s a mess.