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Anyone hear much about Creighton University in Omaha or Drake in Des Moines, Iowa ??

Daughter has visited both and likes them, but now-a-days, it's so hard to really tell from a brief visit and we do not know any recent grads.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated ---- gathering as much info as we can.

She is also looking at Hillsdale....

My son spent a day and a half at Hillsdale and loved the place. He stayed with a student in their dorm, ate the food, and attended 5 classes, history, poly sci, law, etc. The campus is charming, the facilities up to date, the professors very approachable, and the atmosphere was very positive. He will be applying this fall and we will see what happens. 25% of incoming freshmen have an ACT of 30 or above. They accept no federal money, but their endowment of 250 plus million allows them to be competitive in offering financial aid. We will see what happens, but I would love my son to attend there. I saw a recent quote from a sudent which really struck me. They said that “most kids comes to Hillsdale as Republicans and leave as conservatives”. Those are the things I like to hear about the school.

Anyone hear much about Creighton University in Omaha or Drake in Des Moines, Iowa ??

Haven't heard much of Drake, but I know a graduate of Creighton who is now a Pharmacist in the midwest. She swears by the school and can't say enough good things about it.

I am told that it is consistently ranked as the best University to earn a Master's Degree in the Midwest according to U.S. News and World Report. In addition, the university frequently sends students to Ivy League graduate programs.

Last year, PC Magazine ranked Creighton as the 5th most "wired" campus in the country.

Don't know what your daughter wants to major in but Creighton is known as a solid natural science school. So if she is interested in Medicine, Dentistry, or Nursing, this is a good school to go to.

If she isn't sure what to take, their College of Arts and Sciences has been highly acclaimed and noted nationally and internationally for academic integrity and excellence without teaching the BS courses you find in schools like the "Dirty Dozen" ( see above ).

Justice Clarence Thomas's wife is a graduate of that school.

The tuition is about the mid-twenty thousands according to the person I spoke to... which is low compared to most of the schools that teach BS courses out there. However, over 90% have their financial needs met in terms of aid.

My sister in-law attended Creighton and wound up secretly marrying a Muslim from Lebanon who was attending Creighton as well. They let him go to school there even though he had entered the U.S. on a visitor visa, not to attend school. It was nearly 7 years before any of her family found out she was married to this guy who keeps a book on nuclear physics on his book shelf next to a copy of the Quran.