<p>I live in Iowa City, the home of the University of Iowa. Its not the middle of nowhere, not is it anything like the rest of Iowa. Its a liberal town, with decent restaurants, diversity and a pretty active social scene. </p>
<p>The school awesome … Its on my daughter’s list. Its especially good if you are looking into anything to do with the medical field, or writing. </p>
<p>I’m in the Northeast…Ohio State is fairly well respected here. As for the others? Not so much. </p>
<p>IMO Ohio State is the most well thought of school on your list. SMU, Baylor, and Iowa are not more prestigious than tOSU. And are people on here really arguing that Bama is as or more prestigious? </p>
<p>Btw I visited Ohio State and I enjoyed my stay. Great facilities. Really awesome food as well. The campus is huge, so make sure you’re good with that. But otherwise, it really is an awesome school</p>
<p>You want info about the visual appeal? Bama is frequently ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in the US. It is drop dead gorgeous. It is immaculately maintained. </p>
<p>Older buildings are remodeled/refurbished and newer buildings are styled to fit in with the older buildings. Landscaping is well maintained. Seasonal flowers are planted. Hardwood trees everywhere that bloom and change colors with the seasons.</p>
<p>There was a well executed master plan that coordinated signage, lighting, colors, etc throughout the campus and surrounding areas.</p>
<p>Most days have sunny blue skies with white fluffy clouds.</p>
<p>this video is of the College of Arts and Sciences, but gives a good view of the campus…and shows Phase I of the new Science and Engineering Comples (shelby hall). there are 4 phases…the 4th phase completes this summer…it is huge.
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<p>If you go to this link and click on “life at UA” and “visiting campus” you’ll see some of the campus.</p>
<p>tOSU is not particularly well thought of by those of us in the northeast, but it isn’t considered a bad school either. It’s just another large state school. If you want to end up in the northeast, you’d be advised not to attend a state school in the midwest. That being said, it depends what you want to do for work.</p>
<p>“If you want to end up in the northeast, you’d be advised not to attend a state school in the midwest.”</p>
<p>Please do not listen to informative’s nonsense. He just assumes that all public universities are as mediocre as the one’s in his neck of the woods.</p>
<p>I would expect student origins to affect recruitment and hiring patterns, as well as local reputations. So consider where you might like to live and work after graduation.</p>
<p>“I would expect student origins to affect recruitment and hiring patterns, as well as local reputations. So consider where you might like to live and work after graduation.”</p>
<p>That is a reasonable statement. Saying that ALL state universities in the midwest are strictly regional, is not.</p>
<p>According to the Chronicle map I cited above, in the referenced year TOSU did not draw any freshmen from SD, Wyoming, Montana, Mississippi, or Alaska. It drew less than 10 students each from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevado, Utah, NM, OK, Kansas, Nebraska, ND, Iowa, Arkansas, LA, Alabama, SC, Delaware, NH, VT, and Maine. From many of these, it drew only 1-5 freshmen. </p>
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<p>According to the same Chronicle data, the number of freshmen from Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, New York, and Michigan ranged from 46 (MI) to 123 (Illinois). For the total student numbers to be as high as 500+ for any of these states, either the OOS enrollments must be fluctuating greatly (and Chronicle happened to pick a down year), or the numbers include many graduate students. </p>
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<p>According to the 2011-12 Common Data Sets, section B, Iowa enrolled 305 Hispanic freshmen, 119 AA freshmen, and 3283 whites. In the same year, TOSU enrolled 273 Hispanic freshmen, 379 AA freshmen, and 5361 white freshmen. So the percentage of black and Hispanic freshmen at both schools was slightly higher at Iowa (12.9% at Iowa, 12.2% at TOSU). </p>
<p>I don’t have the 2011-12 CDS figures for Alabama. In 2010-11, Hispanics and African Americans comprised nearly 20% of the freshman class.</p>
<p>The data “where your freshman class come from” is two years old. While that may not make much difference for some schools, it does for Alabama. </p>
<p>This last fall’s frosh class is 55% OOS…the numbers from states like Calif, NY, Conn, IL, NJ went up significantly. Calif is now ranked #5 in sending kids to Bama.</p>
<p>Tulane doesn’t have a bad rep. However, it suffered a LOT after Katrina and it had to eliminate much of its engineering dept. Don’t know how other depts fared.</p>
Great school with strengths in a wide array of fields like architecture, anthropology, classics, (tropical) medicine and public health, etc. New Orleans is awesome and probably the most distinctive city in the country. It’s not quite at the Emory/Vandy level, but it’s up there with Miami in the next rung. If financially feasible, I’d personally prefer it over any other school in this thread.</p>
<p>Tulane is usually pretty generous with merit aid, but I’m not sure that applies to transfer students.</p>
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Agreed, Ohio State is the strongest and most reputable. That said, OSU is distinctive among the three by being urban and unusually large even for a public university. If you want a smaller school or more of a college town, Iowa or Alabama is a better bet.</p>
<p>Alabama normally wins for an OOS student because it’s been taking the USC approach of buying students and thereby moving from a decent but unremarkable university to a good one, but my impression is that the money pool for transfer students is considerably smaller.</p>
<p>of the schools you listed, Tulane is probably the highest ranked with Ohio State and SMU neck and neck right behind. Iowa is another state school and Baylor is much lower.</p>
<p>SMU and Tulane are basically the same school except SMU is located in a nice part of Dallas and Tulane is located in a nice part of NOLA. SMU student body is probably more Texas and Southwest, with Tulane more East Coast and Southeast.</p>