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?

It is a pretty incredible experience.

It’s much more than just sports, although that’s a big part of it. The overall excellence of the school in virtually all of its offerings is simply remarkable. I can’t think of any other university in this country that does it as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

It is a pretty incredible experience.

It’s much more than just sports, although that’s a big part of it. The overall excellence of the school in virtually all of its offerings is simply remarkable. I can’t think of any other university in this country that does it as well.

For big 10 schools, it’s also the whole city. Ann Arbor, Columbus, Madison, Iowa city are all just kind of perfectly sized cities with such a vibrant culture around the university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

It is a pretty incredible experience.

It’s much more than just sports, although that’s a big part of it. The overall excellence of the school in virtually all of its offerings is simply remarkable. I can’t think of any other university in this country that does it as well.

For big 10 schools, it’s also the whole city. Ann Arbor, Columbus, Madison, Iowa city are all just kind of perfectly sized cities with such a vibrant culture around the university.

Columbus has over 900,000 people in it. No comparison to the other three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

The answer is Rush Tok

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

It is a rich family flex. It signals my kids went where they wanted, where they felt happiest — price was not a factor at all. Same when you hear of a rich non-athlete kid going to some relatively obscure liberal arts private college. It’s because money was not a factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

The answer is Rush Tok

God forbid kids be made aware that Southern colleges are fun AND have great weather. Things were so much better when kids were naive and you had to go to the same handful of regional colleges everyone in your area funneled to. If you had the misfortune of being born in the Midwest, you had to go to a Rust Belt college with dreadful weather 90% of the school year.

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

The answer is Rush Tok

God forbid kids be made aware that Southern colleges are fun AND have great weather. Things were so much better when kids were naive and you had to go to the same handful of regional colleges everyone in your area funneled to. If you had the misfortune of being born in the Midwest, you had to go to a Rust Belt college with dreadful weather 90% of the school year.

Rust belt freak appears again!

[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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

It is a rich family flex. It signals my kids went where they wanted, where they felt happiest — price was not a factor at all. Same when you hear of a rich non-athlete kid going to some relatively obscure liberal arts private college. It’s because money was not a factor.

Uh, no, because OOS schools are almost always less expensive than privates

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Anonymous wrote:The Greek scene at the big OOS flagships is my only concern. Everything else seems a positive (except the steep prices if no merit, etc)

It’s not big outside of the SEC.

Umm, yes it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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 ?

Nothing. The W&M booster always makes that claim.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.