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. |
Long Island and Maryland too!! |
It’s more at UGA and UF where tuition is paid by the state and students can’t turn that down. Also they have 80-90% in state. |