Hi skibum2,
My friend from college is finishing up his 3rd year at ISU. He loves it there and when I saw him over Christmas he said there were great opportunities to work in a clinic literally right on the ISU campus. Sounds like they have cadaver dissection to learn anatomy (seems like not all PT programs go this route which I find strange). He feels that faculty are supportive. Only problem he encountered was that he had to take a class where the professor was from the East Coast and made it a bit difficult to get some of his ?'s answered. He says a lot of his classmates are older and most of the women in his class already have 1-2 kids.
All in all he says that the $$ savings made it worth it to him. He qualified for in-state residency while he was going to school. There may be something to be said for that, especially with the horror stories of insurmountable DPT debt at some schools like USC.
Congrats on the ISU acceptance and good luck! 🙂