Are the Northeast colleges not as popular in the DMV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Over half of students nationwide live less than 100 miles from where they go to college and only 16 percent go to college more than 500 miles away.

A school like Amherst is nearly 400 miles away.

This alone is why you see comparatively fewer kids from the DMV than NYC attending NE colleges. It’s not so much a matter of preference. It’s simple geography.

You all basically live in a bubble.

Wrong - it is 2023 - not 1940.

+100

It is (current year) - !

[Anonymous]

The issue is cost. This is an expensive area and many people have salaries that do not grant them any or much financial aid but they do not have the disposable savings that colleges estimate — either because of cost of living, or because they’ve only been earning those salaries for a short amount of time or because they prioritize other issues. Plus, this area has some good state university alternatives - better than most of the northeast. UMd and UVa are better ranked than most northeast flagships. So the ROI is calculated differently.

[Anonymous]

OP - depends on the kid and family. My DC wanted nothing to do with climates colder than DMV and nothing to do with the Midwest (which in their view was anything between VA and Colorado. It's quite limiting! My second DC is not a heat fan - so will likely be choosing the exact opposite of first.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

Um?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

Well, it’s not just this area, but here’s the thing: even here the large majority of kids don’t go all that far, especially (even the best) public schools. Yes, many private school kids go further away for school, but the large majority of kids around here are in public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

I grew up in Western Pennsylvania. Many of my classmates stayed in-state for college or went to Ohio/NY. Not many went a plane ride away. All within driving distance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest is only starting high school this fall and I went to college over twenty years ago. It seems like the kids we know from the DMV go to Ivy, UVA, UMD and other publics. We hear of students going to Penn State or UC schools but not so many going to Tufts, Swarthmore, Amherst, Colby, Fordham, Vassar type schools. DH and I are both from the Northeast. My high school had lots of kids going to NYU, Tufts, BC, BU and liberal arts colleges in the Northeast.

Wondering if these Northeast colleges just aren’t popular from the DMV.

Are kids not applying or not getting accepted or not going after being accepted?

Not applying. Expensive and cold, who wants that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

The schools that you are listing are almost free for good students. Educational inflation has far outpaced inflation to the point where a family that may told their kid choose anywhere 20 years ago is now constrained by cost

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

This is total and 100 percent unadulterated bullshit unless you went to an expensive private school, which again puts you in the minority and doesn’t make you even slightly typical or in any position to talk about the majority of the “high achieving students.”

It’s never been the case - never - where only a “few” high achieving students went to UVA, for example. Many of the top graduates of NOVA high schools have been going there for generations. That’s the most obvious example of what you clearly have gotten wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My oldest is only starting high school this fall and I went to college over twenty years ago. It seems like the kids we know from the DMV go to Ivy, UVA, UMD and other publics. We hear of students going to Penn State or UC schools but not so many going to Tufts, Swarthmore, Amherst, Colby, Fordham, Vassar type schools. DH and I are both from the Northeast. My high school had lots of kids going to NYU, Tufts, BC, BU and liberal arts colleges in the Northeast.

Wondering if these Northeast colleges just aren’t popular from the DMV.

Are kids not applying or not getting accepted or not going after being accepted?

The issue is cost. The schools you note are very, very expensive. My child will be looking at those schools but I don't know if we can afford for her to go there.

They all have calculators on their website that will help you figure out the cost to attend. Colby in particular has committed that no student will graduate from Colby with debt--but be aware that their admittance rate is something like 8%.

--mother of Colby student

I just did their calculator and they would expect us to pay $82K/year. I just don't think it's worth that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

This is total and 100 percent unadulterated bullshit unless you went to an expensive private school, which again puts you in the minority and doesn’t make you even slightly typical or in any position to talk about the majority of the “high achieving students.”

It’s never been the case - never - where only a “few” high achieving students went to UVA, for example. Many of the top graduates of NOVA high schools have been going there for generations. That’s the most obvious example of what you clearly have gotten wrong.

NP here. Wow! A little too passionate!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that only one poster has commented on the FACT - not fiction - that most kids everywhere tend to go to college closer to home, and all that poster did was disagree with this FACT.

Am I on a Trump website where “alternative facts” are ok?

I just think the posters are in such a bubble and they don't realize it.

No, most families don't send their kids a plane ride away for college. It's only this area that seems to have many students going far away for college.

I grew up in DMV and most of the high achieving students went a plane ride away to college - and mostly to NE and Michigan/Chicago. A few went to UVA, Duke. Others who had money (or aid) stayed closer to home within driving distance: Delaware and smaller schools in PA, OH, NC. And a bunch went to MD. Now, all those kids are skewing far more to warm places in the south and west coast. I see so many more South Carolina, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Florida than existed in my time. In all cases, they wanted warmer weather.

This is total and 100 percent unadulterated bullshit unless you went to an expensive private school, which again puts you in the minority and doesn’t make you even slightly typical or in any position to talk about the majority of the “high achieving students.”

It’s never been the case - never - where only a “few” high achieving students went to UVA, for example. Many of the top graduates of NOVA high schools have been going there for generations. That’s the most obvious example of what you clearly have gotten wrong.

NP here. Wow! A little too passionate!!

Yea maybe. I just hate when DCUM posters offer opinions and personal anecdotes as fact. It’s so annoying.

But reading her post a little more closely, the poster is likely from Maryland. That would explain why relative few of her “high achieving” classmates didn’t go to UVA and went elsewhere. Still, the large majority of MCPS graduates don’t and never have hopped on a plane for college either. It’s just inaccurate to suggest that there ever was a time where large numbers of DMV graduates hopped on planes to go to little private colleges in the NE.