The hardest part about NU are getting in —- and then paying for it.
It’s a bad look to trash excellent schools, such as the University of Iowa.
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I wouldn't say people here are trashing the University of Iowa.
However it is a fact that the NU degree generally carries significantly more weight to employers.
So, as I have always said, scholarship athletes who transfer out of Northwestern without getting their undergrad diploma (with some exceptions) were making a mistake career-wise. NIL changes that and reduces one of NU's advantages.
Sullivan got his diploma. Congratulations to him.
Like Ryan Young, Robbie Beran and many others who played, got their diploma and went somewhere else for grad school, I wish them the best.
However, I would not describe University of Iowa as an "excellent" university. Excellent is about as high as you can go. Excellent (to most people) means Top 10, Top 20, Top 25 maybe even Top 50 if you want to be generous. It costs about half of what Northwestern costs to attend. Plenty of talented kids go there - often because of their family economics. Iowa is a good value compared to many alternatives. But overall, University of Iowa doesn't measure up to Illinois, Purdue or Wisconsin, to name a few.
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