A friend of mine (U of M grad) has three children. The oldest two went to Iowa State. His youngest was dead set against doing the same thing as her siblings; she wanted to be different. But she toured ISU anyways. Before the tour was over, she decided she was going to Iowa State.
I've never been to the campus myself, but that story tells me everything I need to know. I'll never begrudge anyone for choosing ISU, especially for an engineering discipline. Top notch in every way, including research. We should've gotten them into the conference instead of Nebraska.
