Back home this past weekend and reading a special section in the W'loo Courier about where the top HS students in NE IA are heading to school in fall and the % heading to ISU was a lot higher than I remember it being in the past.
Then this morning I see a Dowling tweet that 98 grads are headed from their to ISU in the fall and the next closest is IA with 36.
I like the trend.
Not surprising since most UI students are from Illinois. Boggles my mind how Iowa is considered by many to be the dominant university when far more Iowa natives attend and benefit from ISU.
I thought I heard more Linn-Mar grads are now going to ISU than Iowa.
Wouldn't surprise me one bit. We're in the Linn-Mar district. My kids aren't high school age yet but several of their friends with older siblings, TONS of them are going to ISU. I don't know if it's for engineering or what. Our next door neighbor was on the L-M robotics team that just competed at nationals and he's been an ISU academic "commit" since about age 10. The two houses on the other side of us BOTH have kids in the marching band with siblings following behind them on the same path.
At crwash when I graduated it was Iowa then probably luther then probably uni then ISU. I think the younger grades it's definitely shifted to ISU being ahead of UNI.
That may have been the perception but I don't think it was the reality. Back in the 80's President Eaton cited a demographic study that found there were more ISU grads in Linn County than all other schools COMBINED. A lot of those were probably engineers who relocated here to work at Rockwell after graduation but I have to assume a pretty significant percentage of those were natives as well.
The extension of Highway 100 out to Highway 30 is going to make it much easier to get to Ames from CR.
Not just CR, how about Marion!
