Why are OOS flagships so popular these days?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

seems like football especially is a big deal in colleges that don't have much else to do outside of campus life.

When you’re 18-22, the campus is your life. Lots of people like it that way too. Not everyone wants to attend college in a huge impersonal city. To each his own.

sure, but like I said, when there's not much going on outside of campus, football especially is king, and all the social life revolves around it.

Also, there are colleges near cities, but not in the city. It's close enough that there are things to do outside of campus.

DP. Again, a lot of people aren’t interested in being in or near a city. It’s not appealing. To each their own.

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Anonymous wrote:SLACs have swung too far to the left for many of these kids who are, according to studies, becoming more conservative.

Many parents want their kids to take the basics like math, science, etc. and don't want to pay $90K for "socialist camp."

Their words, not mine.

This was my thinking for not choosing a SLAC. She did get into several, but very turned off by the nonsense. OOS had so many offerings too. Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, good liberal arts, etc.

Sorry, that was my DC's thought process. Didn't want the crazy stuff.

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Ours too. No idiotic nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:The main reason, at least in the case of Virginia, is that the state didn’t grow their flagship school enough. UVA is too small of a flagship for a state with over 8.5 million people in it. It’s half the size of its peers and isn’t serving the people of Virginia nearly as well as it should.

But you forgot to add in William & Mary. No State public system has something like W&M

Noob here .. can you please let us know what W&M offers that no State public system does ?

A $90k small Slac experience at about $38k all in

Oh, come on. My oldest went there and it is not comparable to a “90k slac experience.” You are grossly overstating it.

DP…. Can you elaborate?

Sure - it’s just a school. Not some fancy small private that offers more perks than any other public university. The PP just sounds silly hyping it up like that. My kid didn’t even especially love it. He said he wished he had transferred somewhere with more “life” to it, but it was really too late to do so by the time he came to that conclusion. He also wasn’t a fan of Williamsburg and spent many weekends with friends at other VA schools.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA waitlisted my kid and didn't bother applying to Tech because he's high stat and didn't want to ED.
Crossing the Potomac as a CS major...Go Terps!

+1 Good! Congrats!

B1G Ten
Google
Oculus
Linear Programming
Hybrid Engine
Universal Price Code
Pulse Doppler Radar
Sirius Satellite Radio
Epic Games/Fortnite
Octane System

Terps shape the world !!

DP. You sound really silly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

seems like football especially is a big deal in colleges that don't have much else to do outside of campus life.

When you’re 18-22, the campus is your life. Lots of people like it that way too. Not everyone wants to attend college in a huge impersonal city. To each his own.

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I didn’t have any desire to attend an urban school and my kids don’t either. We much prefer a beautiful, traditional campus.

Same.

And going to big football or basketball games at a school that really cares about football or basketball is so much fun. Probably my favorite college memory.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA waitlisted my kid and didn't bother applying to Tech because he's high stat and didn't want to ED.
Crossing the Potomac as a CS major...Go Terps!

+1 Good! Congrats!

B1G Ten
Google
Oculus
Linear Programming
Hybrid Engine
Universal Price Code
Pulse Doppler Radar
Sirius Satellite Radio
Epic Games/Fortnite
Octane System

Terps shape the world !!

DP. You sound really silly.

NP, proud of their school...so what?!

[Anonymous]

As someone who grew up outside the DMV, I’m puzzled by the scorn U. of Maryland often gets here. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t the best, but the campus is beautiful & the academics are above average even in the excellent Big 10. We should be proud to have such a university in the area. Which state university in the northeast is any better?

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Anonymous wrote:The main reason, at least in the case of Virginia, is that the state didn’t grow their flagship school enough. UVA is too small of a flagship for a state with over 8.5 million people in it. It’s half the size of its peers and isn’t serving the people of Virginia nearly as well as it should.

But you forgot to add in William & Mary. No State public system has something like W&M

Noob here .. can you please let us know what W&M offers that no State public system does ?

A $90k small Slac experience at about $38k all in

Oh, come on. My oldest went there and it is not comparable to a “90k slac experience.” You are grossly overstating it.

DP…. Can you elaborate?

We had one kid at a SLAC and one at W&M and I would agree that they are comparable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who grew up outside the DMV, I’m puzzled by the scorn U. of Maryland often gets here. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t the best, but the campus is beautiful & the academics are above average even in the excellent Big 10. We should be proud to have such a university in the area. Which state university in the northeast is any better?

I think it's just the fact that it's so close to home for so many MCPS students that dominate the Maryland side of this board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who grew up outside the DMV, I’m puzzled by the scorn U. of Maryland often gets here. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t the best, but the campus is beautiful & the academics are above average even in the excellent Big 10. We should be proud to have such a university in the area. Which state university in the northeast is any better?

Md gets scorn because of college park

It’s 100% vibes and they are “off”

If college park was Boulder or Burlington, umd would be knocking on t20

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who grew up outside the DMV, I’m puzzled by the scorn U. of Maryland often gets here. The surrounding neighborhood isn’t the best, but the campus is beautiful & the academics are above average even in the excellent Big 10. We should be proud to have such a university in the area. Which state university in the northeast is any better?

Not really

[Anonymous]

School spirit, school sports, sororities, fraternities, A LOT OF CHOICES IN MAJORS, ABILITY TO CHANGE MAJORS

I live near a Division I school.

Our ladies gymnastics program draws crowds of around 11,000 people for each meet.

Our ladies volleyball also draws around 11,000 people for each game.

Football draws around 87,000 people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure I would put UVA and UMD in same category. You are going to OOS public instead of in state UVA because you didn't get into UVA. Not many Michigan, UCLA and UNC admit cases. UMD, while a really good school and not that easy to get into instate -- it is not a highly ranked public, more middle of the road. So very likely the OOS is better and you may have even received some merit to make it comparable in price. Add in the allure of geographic diversity and some more interesting places to go to school than College Park and there is your answer. Still think UMD is great choice, great school but not the same declines as UVA......

My kid went to OOS flagship instead of UVA. He didn't like UVA. Also. he received almost full ride (full tuition, room and board, books and transportation etc.)

[Anonymous]

We live in the college town of our state's flagship. While a lot of students from my kids' high school go there, my kids refused to even apply. While they did apply to other in-state schools, OOS publics offered some things to them that our in-state publics do not such as more geographic diversity of students and a higher percentage of students in our faith group (Jewish). They also like experiencing another part of the country. We are paying more for the opportunity, but they were both within the budget of what we saved for college, so OOS publics are what they chose.

[Anonymous]

My kid didn’t get into UVA. That is why they went OOS. VT and JMU were ranked far below their other acceptances.