Why do people go to another state’s public university?

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Anonymous wrote:Post after post slamming a young college student for being overweight and I’M the troll???

Didn’t happen. And, yes, you are the troll.

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Anonymous wrote:For the same reason they go to private schools. They don’t like their in-state public options.

What a polite way to say Maryland isn’t ideal…

Maryland is too close to the DMV and doesn’t have UVA’s cache. So kids from Montgomery County are embarrassed to go.

Most kids from MoCo are rejected by UMD or don’t get into Business or Engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:For the same reason they go to private schools. They don’t like their in-state public options.

What a polite way to say Maryland isn’t ideal…

Maryland is too close to the DMV and doesn’t have UVA’s cache. So kids from Montgomery County are embarrassed to go.

Even KD went to Texas — which isn’t a basketball powerhouse!

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Apparently they don’t go over cache & cachet at UVA.

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in some states a kid can go to an OOS university cheaper than staying in state.

among other things ...

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UVA’s reputation is much better than Maryland’s.

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Anonymous wrote:For the same reason they go to private schools. They don’t like their in-state public options.

What a polite way to say Maryland isn’t ideal…

DS attending UMD from NOVA has only been on campus for a few days, but he's having a blast! No a/c and all. And it's not even basketball season. He's a CS major and absolutely thrilled. Doesn't regret his decision in the least.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA’s reputation is much better than Maryland’s.

Not in the subjects that matter. Engineering, computer science, economics etc.

There both fine public schools. But Maryland is on the rise. Virginia is on the decline.

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Anonymous wrote:Usually because they can’t get into UVA. Then they lie to themselves and others and say they wanted an “out of state experience.”

Not everyone wants to go to UVA.
We are in Virginia and my senior won't even be applying to UVA. We visited over the summer and our experience was awful. Our visit to Old Dominion University last fall was actually an OUTSTANDING experience. Based on our two experiences I have no idea why UVA has a better reputation.

Look, I’m sorry. Nobody with a chance at UVA admission also visits ODU. THAT’S why you’ve decided UVA is awful and ODU is outstanding. You’re fooling no one but yourself. Let’s not do this again, ok?

Go ahead and believe that if it makes you feel better.

NP here. PP is right and you are being obtuse. Deliberately, most likely. The two schools have nothing in common in terms of prestige, environment, programs of study, or rigor. One is Uber competitive admissions and the other accepts 96% of applicants.

This doesn’t mean they aren’t both fine schools. It just means their target applicant pools are wildly different.

I'm not being obtuse.
Our guide at UVA was overweight and wearing daisy dukes and an extremely low cut shirt. She punctuated every single sentence with "um" and used "uh" as a comma in about half of them. She "upspoke" the entire time.
The ODU students were dressed in appropriate business casual. They were confident and articulate.
The difference was night and day.
If our guide is not representative of the UVA "target applicant pool" I can't imagine why she was chosen as a guide.

Great way to choose a college.

DP
It’s a valid reason.

Eliminating a school because the tour guide was overweight is juvenile and offensive.

Not because the tour guide was overweight. Because she did not come across as intelligent when she spoke. Because she was dressed inappropriately. The fact that she was wearing too small/too low cut clothing was accentuated by her weight.

If that were true, then the poster would not have even mentioned the weight. She would have focused instead only on her alleged lack of intelligence. So you can just stop now.

And if it were not true , all of the responders would have at least reacted and acknowledged that a tour guide that upspeaks, uses "uh" and "um" in ever sentence, and dresses in 1 inch shorts is not a good representative for a college that wants to be taken seriously. Yet, all of the responders seem to think those things are perfectly fine.
So you can just stop now.

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You lost when the first thing you mentioned was her weight. This is what you care about. You sound sexist.

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Anonymous wrote:For the same reason they go to private schools. They don’t like their in-state public options.

What a polite way to say Maryland isn’t ideal…

DS attending UMD from NOVA has only been on campus for a few days, but he's having a blast! No a/c and all. And it's not even basketball season. He's a CS major and absolutely thrilled. Doesn't regret his decision in the least.

Hello fellow parent of a UMD CS major. Congratulations. Getting into UMD CS program directly as a freshman is a pretty big deal, per the registrar I spoke with.

My DS is there, too, as a CS major in University Honors. He's having so much fun. He's played a few rec sports over the weekend that he normally doesn't play, and he had fun, met new people.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA’s reputation is much better than Maryland’s.

Not in the subjects that matter. Engineering, computer science, economics etc.

There both fine public schools. But Maryland is on the rise. Virginia is on the decline.

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I went to a state flagship out of state. The tuition was nowhere near as much as private school. I didn't care for any of the publics in my own state, and the out of state was ranked very well. It was a bargain, even with out of state tuition. Not every state has a lot of good publics.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems impossible for a grown adult not to understand this.

Can we stop pretending this is a real thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Usually because they can’t get into UVA. Then they lie to themselves and others and say they wanted an “out of state experience.”

Not everyone wants to go to UVA.
We are in Virginia and my senior won't even be applying to UVA. We visited over the summer and our experience was awful. Our visit to Old Dominion University last fall was actually an OUTSTANDING experience. Based on our two experiences I have no idea why UVA has a better reputation.

Look, I’m sorry. Nobody with a chance at UVA admission also visits ODU. THAT’S why you’ve decided UVA is awful and ODU is outstanding. You’re fooling no one but yourself. Let’s not do this again, ok?

Go ahead and believe that if it makes you feel better.

NP here. PP is right and you are being obtuse. Deliberately, most likely. The two schools have nothing in common in terms of prestige, environment, programs of study, or rigor. One is Uber competitive admissions and the other accepts 96% of applicants.

This doesn’t mean they aren’t both fine schools. It just means their target applicant pools are wildly different.

I'm not being obtuse.
Our guide at UVA was overweight and wearing daisy dukes and an extremely low cut shirt. She punctuated every single sentence with "um" and used "uh" as a comma in about half of them. She "upspoke" the entire time.
The ODU students were dressed in appropriate business casual. They were confident and articulate.
The difference was night and day.
If our guide is not representative of the UVA "target applicant pool" I can't imagine why she was chosen as a guide.

Great way to choose a college.

DP
It’s a valid reason.

Eliminating a school because the tour guide was overweight is juvenile and offensive.

Not because the tour guide was overweight. Because she did not come across as intelligent when she spoke. Because she was dressed inappropriately. The fact that she was wearing too small/too low cut clothing was accentuated by her weight.

If that were true, then the poster would not have even mentioned the weight. She would have focused instead only on her alleged lack of intelligence. So you can just stop now.

And if it were not true , all of the responders would have at least reacted and acknowledged that a tour guide that upspeaks, uses "uh" and "um" in ever sentence, and dresses in 1 inch shorts is not a good representative for a college that wants to be taken seriously. Yet, all of the responders seem to think those things are perfectly fine.
So you can just stop now.

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You lost when the first thing you mentioned was her weight. This is what you care about. You sound sexist.

You are (lamely) deflecting from the fact that PP had a bad experience with an unprofessional tour guide.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems impossible for a grown adult not to understand this.

Can we stop pretending this is a real thread.

+1

C- trolling, at best