Highly regarded American universities would have welcomed Nicoletta Knoble as a student next fall, but she has her sights set on King's College at Cambridge University in England.
The chance to study against a backdrop of elegant, Old World buildings amid a storied history was attractive to the senior from Benet Academy in Lisle, but shaving many thousands of dollars off her tuition bills was no small factor.
Attending school in England, where she will study anthropology and archaeology, means Knoble will spend about $26,000 on tuition and living expenses, about half the cost of some other schools she was considering -- which included the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Syracuse University, New York University and Washington University.
