State schools where it doesn’t suck to be OOS

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Michigan of course!

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Anonymous wrote:Michigan of course!

There may be a lot of OOS students but I’ve heard the OOS students are kind of siloed by region.

I’ve heard about it what the other poster said about Wisconsin. In state kids and OOS “rich” kids self-segregate in an unfortunate way.

[Anonymous]

Colorado - Boulder. Tons of OOS students (I think around 50%) from all across the country.

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UD
UF

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Anonymous wrote:Great post. I’m hoping to hear more info on:

U of Vermont
U if Massachusetts
U of Wisconsin

UVM is 60% out of state. I can’t imagine problems there with people who go home for the weekends or only hang out with high school friends.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC
NC State

Really? Even with the caps?

I'm old (graduated 20+ yrs ago) so my experience may be out of date, but I went to UNC in state with 50 people from my high school and many of my college friends were from my high school. I don't even remember meeting any students from anywhere other than NC in my time there. My impression is that the out of state students hung out with each other. It's also so much harder to get into UNC from out of state that those students are on average on another level...

It’s still that way. It’s mostly NC kids. I always laugh when parents go on about leaving the state for diversity and wind up with just a huge group of kids from the same place. Meanwhile, the private university down the street from us has a high population of international students (50 countries) and kids from all over the country—almost none from the DMV.

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How is UIUC for OOS student in biology?

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Anonymous wrote:You will do fine as long as you aren’t a typical East Coast douche who thinks everybody wants to constantly hear about where you came from & how much better the bagels/pizza/corned beef sandwiches are back in Boston/NYC/Philly/DC.

This was every New Yorker when I attended UF.

Yes, Florida does not have a bagel-making history like NYC. We know. We know.

[Anonymous]

W&M has what is basically a mandatory 3 day fun orientation with your dorm-mates which really helps kids start friendships.

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Anonymous wrote:This has maybe changed but it used to be that at Wisconsin the OOS (particularly East Coast) students ended up in private dorms together and so did not mingle much with in state students.

Hmmm. My friend’s daughter is a freshman at UofW and we thought it was such a strange coincidence that her roommate (random assignment) was from two towns over. I wonder if the school is intentionally putting them together.

For UMass, I’ve got a lot of friends with kids there (and went there myself decades ago). It is not typical for kids to go home on weekends. Amherst is a great college town, plus lots to do in the area/region that’s accessible to students.

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Anonymous wrote:When I asked on the Pitt tour about what events they have to help freshman meet each other the tour guide said she couldn’t think of any. A Midwest flagship said orientation was a zoom session on how to register for classes and a dorm meeting.

This was so different from F&M where they described so many summer programs they offer to help students connect. (Of course, that is one of the big differences between large publics and small privates. Pros and cons to both.)

Nah. It’s not a big difference between small and large schools—just between the schools you’ve named.

You’re making a sweeping generalization based on little personal data points.

F&M only has 2,000 students. 😂 How could you not meet 2,000 people on such a tiny campus? 🤣 The campus is a block or two.

These all have ways of meeting freshman:

UVA
UF
UMD
Michigan
UNC
Binghamton
Penn State
And on and on.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UNC
NC State

Really? Even with the caps?

I'm old (graduated 20+ yrs ago) so my experience may be out of date, but I went to UNC in state with 50 people from my high school and many of my college friends were from my high school. I don't even remember meeting any students from anywhere other than NC in my time there. My impression is that the out of state students hung out with each other. It's also so much harder to get into UNC from out of state that those students are on average on another level...

UNC mostly takes in-state kids. It’s the same today.

IIRC, only 8% OOS kids are accepted or I might be thinking of Michigan.

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It’s still true about the difference in academic level between in and out of state at UNC. A professor I know wishes more OOS kids could be admitted to make this better.

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Anonymous wrote:UMD has been great for my kid from VA. Does that count?

Good to hear this! When I attended UMD (many years ago in the late 80s- early 90s), so many students went back home on the weekends. Mostly Montgomery, Howard and Baltimore Counties.

I think UMD is quite different today, where so many high achieving kids get shut out of top tier, and end up at UMD. They want the college experience, so they don't go home on the weekends, well, most weekends.

My DC is there, and we live 45min away. They don't come home that often. I'm sure there are many who do go home often, though, but there are also many who don't.

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Anonymous wrote:You will do fine as long as you aren’t a typical East Coast douche who thinks everybody wants to constantly hear about where you came from & how much better the bagels/pizza/corned beef sandwiches are back in Boston/NYC/Philly/DC.

^^this. realize that you’re at a *state* institution. ideally the kid would invest in the state and give back, in gratitude for the spot taken away from an in-state student who actually pays taxes there.