<p>What are your thoughts? What do you know?</p>
<p>My son is a freshman at the University of Denver and is very, very happy there. </p>
<p>He raves about his classes, his professors and the facilities--all top notch. If Denver was located on either coast it would be better known, and more popular/selective--right now it is more of a hidden gem of a school. </p>
<p>It is a good choice for late bloomers--my son is an excellent student now but was not motivated back in 9th or 10th grade--a lot of intellectual curiosity, a wide reader and diverse thinker with a great distaste for what he considered busy work. He did much better in his AP classes (and earned very high scores) than he did in the more basic high school courses. I think he is pretty typical of the students there--very bright and ambitious but not the transcripts that would have gotten them in to "top" schools.</p>
<p>Graduates from the University of Denver do very well in the real world--both in job placement and in getting into graduate programs.</p>