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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any college in the depressing Rust Belt. There are too many better or equal options in growing regions with good weather and scenic surroundings.[/quote]

You keep saying that yet Big 10 universities in the so-called Rust Belt are enjoying a surge in applications.  Lots of kids don't want to go south for different reasons and can get the big school, big time sports, fun party experience in the Big 10.  [/quote]

+1 Many of these midwestern schools are on fire: Purdue, Chicago, U Mich, U Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, etc. The small LACs in tiny towns in the Midwest, ok, I agree that many are struggling. But that is true almost anywhere. More of the college-bound population is being raised in urban areas, and they don’t want to live in the sticks at college. [/quote]
+1 The flagships and highly rated private schools (say, <= 50 on US News) are generally doing well. It's the regional privates and directional state Us (e.g., Eastern Illinois, Indiana University at Kokomo, Ferris State and what have you) that I'd be very leery of. [/quote]

I totally disagree. More and more bright kids from MC and UMC homes are attending these schools because they give great merit scholarships. I’ve been surprised by the “seller” schools that have been turned down in favor of these lesser known schools. [/quote]
Interesting. Where do you live? I'm in MoCo (kids in public, HS classes of '15, '19, '21, and '23) and I have seen a shift to state flagship/state flagship equivalents (both in-state and out-of-state), probably or possibly due to costs, but I'm hard pressed to think of any kids going to somewhere like IU Kokomo or University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh (i.e., out of state/out of region directionals). So they'll go to IU in Bloomington or Purdue, but not Purdue Northwest or IU Fort Wayne. U of South Carolina/Clemson? Yes. Increasingly very popular. USC Aiken or USC Upstate? Not so much. [/quote]

PP- what about the non-state flagships in MD?  When we toured UMBC and Towson more than half of our (admittedly small) tour group was from out of state.  Kids coming from Penn, NJ, Europe and Texas on our tours.[/quote]
Per Common Data Set:
This fall 94% of first year students at UMBC were from MD. That's compared to 95% in fall 2021, 93% in fall 2019, 91% in fall 2017, 93% in fall 2013, and 91% in fall 2011.

In fall 2022, 90% of first years at Towson were from MD. That's compared to 89% in fall 2021, 83% in fall 2019, 82% in fall 2018, 75% in fall 2015, 75% in fall 2013, and 72% in fall 2010.

So UMBC seems to be holding pretty steady in terms of instate vs oos over the years (maybe a slight shift towards more instate). Towson has had a very steep decline in OOS.[/quote]

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