South Farms
- near Ogden & Rt 83
University of Illinois is always going to attract smart kids who want to get into the College of Business or the College of Engineering. That is still true today for the kids who qualify from the school districts that pump out the high ACT/SAT score students - your top 15%-20% kids from NewTrier, Stevenson , Hinsdales, the 5 Napervilles in those two districts out there, Wheatons, LT, York, DG's, etc.
The DuPage schools and the northern Cook / southern Lake county schools could basically fill those colleges up .
Where UI is not getting the kids is the ones who want to be teachers, or any one of the various LAS degrees. People have a hard time justifying the tuition for a History degree when you can get it out of state for $10,000-$15,000 a year less. That's not an exaggeration.
So it continues to attract the smart suburban students to Bus/Eng and it doesn't matter if your last name is Anderson, Chen, Patel , Gomez , or Washington. The students will still come for those degrees en masse. Yea a lot of those kids will go east to college, but they always did if they could afford it.
We are losing the smart LAS/Edu/others to schools in the B12 and SEC that will offer substantial partial academic schollies to kids from ILL. Maybe the minority students aren't as tempted to go out of state to the SEC or B12, but the kids named Anderson or Murphy or Balducci are not real hip on paying $40,000 per year for a teaching degree and will get it at the state schools in the south or plains states for $25,000 per year.
It is what it is.
without commenting on the positives or negatives of that, the place is far different today than 25-30 years ago.
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