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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA, W&M, VT all have around 60-66% in state percentage, [b]JMU, GMU, ODU,[/b] UMW, etc. all have 75-100% in state percentage.[/quote]

Troll, cite your source.  I don't think any of these schools have 100% in-state percentage. [/quote]
https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/e19_report.asp

Radford: 91.8%
UMW: 89.7%
VCU: 91.0%
CNU: 94.4%

Would you rather I say 75-95?[/quote]

DP.  Weird that you chose different schools for your response, as opposed to the other three in your previous post.  [/quote]

NP:
JMU: 71%
GMU: 78%
ODU: 90%

But more critically, it’s not clear what magically happens between WM and Tech at 60% and JMU at 71% to somehow make JMU more high school-like. [/quote]

Cost and popularity (campus, athletics, vibe). [/quote]

DP.  None of that makes one school “high school like” as opposed to the other school.  As the PP points out, basically the same number of kids are in-state between VT, WM, UVA, JMU.  [/quote]

Just pointing out WM is significantly smaller than the other three schools. So in terms of “pure numbers” it does not have basically the same number of students as the other 3 and therefore many fewer kids from any individual HS.  Each HS send multiples more kids to JMU and VT than WM. That said, WM is a smaller pool of students, so I’d agree you are more likely to see anyone you do know. My own kid went to a large NOVA public and didn’t know any of the other WM kids from her HS. She roomed with someone she met senior year through her EC from different HS. They talked and were on the same page about parties, neatness, noise etc.  They were fine, but wanted different things in housing sophomore year and parted ways. But, she did run into a close friend from ES who had tracked to a different MS/HS from a split feeder and they had lost touch. She still meets her for lunch once a month or so as a senior.

Honestly, in state is what you make of it.  You can choose to room with HS bestie and primarily hang with your HS friends in at least some cases. And then yes, it can look like 13th grade.  Or, you can purposefully choose someone you don’t know or know very tangentially as a roommate, like DD did, and make an effort to meet new people.  All these schools have enough kids from outside NOVA, be that ROVA or OOS, to find new friends.  Like so many other things in college, it is what you make of it.  Arguing over which schools offer “13th grade” is silly. Reality is if that’s what your kid wants and they won’t go outside there comfort zone, they can probably find 13th grade at most of these schools (depending on the specific kids attending and how many close friends also go).  But, if they are willing to push themselves, all these schools are large and/or diverse enough for kids to reinvent themselves and never regularly interact with their HS crowd. [/quote]

Well said![/quote]
+1, excellent post. But what is ROVA? I’m sure I’ll feel dumb but I haven’t seen that before. [/quote]

NOVA= Northern VA
ROVa= Rest of VA[/quote]

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