{"id":141,"date":"2026-04-30T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/?p=141"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:07:04","slug":"why-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/2026\/04\/30\/why-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Iowa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings readers,<\/p>\n<p>As May 1st rolls around, I imagine many people are picking the college that they will attend in the fall. Obviously, I am biased, but today I am going to talk about why I originally came to Iowa and why I chose to stay!<\/p>\n<p>To give you a little background, I went to high school in Colorado.\u00a0 I knew about this University from one of my relatives who teaches there. When I was applying to college, I figured my major would be Economics or Business Analytics. The University of Iowa has a nationally ranked Business Analytics program, so I applied and then waited to hear if I was accepted or not. Full transparency, this was not my dream school, and I did not plan on attending. However, Iowa has a way of going to the top of people&#8217;s lists very quickly. When I got my acceptance for this university, I was very excited, and the more I talked with friends and family, the more I realized it was the right choice. Here were my top reasons to come to the college:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opportunities through the Henry B. Tippie College of Business<\/li>\n<li>I LOVED the campus vibes<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a Big 10 school<\/li>\n<li>The sports scene (Caitlin Clark, do I need to say more?)<\/li>\n<li>Great college town<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is why I am choosing to stay at this University for the next few years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The community I have built<\/li>\n<li>The faculty<\/li>\n<li>Amazing opportunities through clubs and activities<\/li>\n<li>Academic support<\/li>\n<li>Interesting classes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope these insights help affirm your decision to come to Iowa and your decision to stay!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>\nSavannah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings readers, As May 1st rolls around, I imagine many people are picking the college that they will attend in the fall. Obviously, I am biased, but today I am going to talk about why I originally came to Iowa and why I chose to stay! To give you a little background, I went to high school in Colorado.\u00a0 I knew about this University from one of my relatives who teaches there. When I was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/savannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}