The UofI was an awesome experience for me and my wife. The campus/Moscow is wonderful environment for student to learn, make friends, and learn about themselves. Your able to dedicate yourself to college, it's a lot like other college towns like Ithaca, etc. An interesting note is that the U of I campus was designed by the same firm that designed U of Washington, Cornell, Stanford, etc... I don't know what top 25 list you are referring to Bob, on the Princeton review rankings Stanford isn't even in the top 10, but I admit it is a nice place. I think that Pepperdine is a most beautiful campus in the America, my oh my - on those cliffs overlooking the pacific. I don’t agree with Bob about WSU. I think that U of I and WSU are pretty comparable, but the student environment for study is much, much better at Idaho. The only advantage would be if your kids planned to live in Washington then they would have a better alumni network in state. If they plan to stay in Idaho, WSU just isn’t worth the out of state tuition. I think when I have kids I'll probably try to encourage my kids to go to either: 1) Stanford, 2) USC 3) UW 4) UofI 5) Whitman 6) UofO. Then again, who knows what the schools will be like in 20-30 years? (you can see by my picks I have a west coat bias!)

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Question: Where would you want your kids to go to school?

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