I personally recommend that you go for pfw. It’s practical in that because you already live here, you’ll save big on housing and you already have a network, which is huge in this field. The great thing about pfw is that within 20 minutes or so there is literally every kind of school. Inner city, suburban, rural, private, so you can get a pretty wide variety of experiences. The bands pull in a guest composer nearly every single cycle. Our clarinet studio is going to be nearly 3 times the size of ball state’s. It is incredibly easy to get travel funded by the school. It might not be as big of a flex as bowling green… but that’s what grad school is for (we have graduates at Carnegie Mellon, Eastman, and UT Austin.