This isn’t factual. There was a whole other thread that provides statistics and everything. |
If only our OOS kids could get in!!! |
Yeah--you can be a VA kid and have your entire class be from NC at UNC (fill in other public schools). State publics that serve the state are filled with kids from THAT state. The BS argument that if you stay in-state you have have no geographical diversity---but then you go a state away with everyone from the same state but you--is ridiculous. I get it if you didn't get into your state flagship or the other state public has a program you can't get at your own....but this 'HS 2.0' crap is stupid. I didn't see anyone from my HS at my large public university. There were 10 of us from my class at a 20k student body. And--people are telling my kid he's nuts to go to a private near home when that private has only like 1% from the DMV and is filled with International students (50 countries represented) and every state and there is a 3 year requirement to live on-campus. In this area, kids are worldly. The amount of places and things my kid has done by 18 and the independence he has living in a city is way more than I had even after graduating from my suburban HS and them my rural public state university. |
This is from the website from Purdue: 5,067 not from Indiana 4287 Indiana residents https://admissions.purdue.edu/academics/freshmanprofile.php |
Different sources definitely calculate these numbers differently. Wherever possible, all the figures listed are from College Factual to ensure better comparability. |
You're the one being dramatic and speaking in absolutes. Peeved is probably the mildest word I could've used. And you're changing the goalposts now, you didn't state "average public state flagship". |
Maybe a few of course. But this originally came up as someone claiming that it was somehow pervasive that kids at a state flagship all go around moping because they are not at Yale. Absurd. |
You know snobby, entitled kids. The vast majority of kids going in state to their state flagship are not moaning about not being at Brown. Money alone … |
Like nails on a chalkboard — please make it stop! |
Some frats and sororities from some of these big state schools, particularly in the south, do prefer in state. But only some. Many others have lots of OOS students and even some where it is the majority.
So the example above is not the norm. |
NP. Many but also many from NY and NYC. Also MD and VA. |
I find this thread so odd just thinking of my experience at Indiana in the 1980s.
My best friends were from Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New York and Massachusetts. And I was a state resident of Indiana I loved meeting all of them and I loved that there were NOT from Indiana and had grown up, in some cases, in such different environments. Being with a bunch of Hoosiers at a state school made no difference to any of them. They loved it there. Good memories. Good friends. |
Back in the olden days (early 90s) when JMU had an undergraduate enrollment of 12k, my dorm floor consisted of kids from NOVA, Tidewater, Southside, MD, CT, NY and NJ. If this is the experience of a regional school pre-internet and common app, it's probably more difficult to find a school that is tough for OOS. |
I know people who bribed their kids to go to UMD in state. I know adults who went to in state great schools who wish they’d gone away. This is common. The person calling these kids names is so sanctimonious and out of touch. |
That’s how I read it as well. The overwhelmingly majority of instate Michigan kids who attend Michigan aren’t peeved in the slightest thst they didn’t get into a private school. There are very, very few private colleges that are Michigan’s level. Now if you mentioned OOS students, that would be more believable. |