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Anonymous wrote:The terminology really doesn't matter. OP clearly meant flagship to be the most selective state school in the state.
The fact that Michigan is 50% OOS and Georgia Tech only 10% is most pertinent, and suggests that being OOS at GT could be socially isolating.
I fail to see what difference it would make if a student was in-state or OOS. No one ostracizes someone simply because they're from another state. This is a bizarre way of thinking. My DC attends an OOS school in which most kids come from that state. No one cares!
It absolutely matters. Friend groups from high school move to college together at schools that are 80%+ in state. It is hard to break into that kind of a social scene, get accepted into Greek life, etc. They all already know one another!
Serious question: do you have a kid at one of these schools? Because in real life, "friend groups from high school" aren't moving to their in-state colleges en masse. Sure, there might be some kids from the same high school who you would barely see, but it's just silly to make up stories about entire high school friend groups attending the same college so they'll never have to be apart. No one actually does this.
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