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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W&M is really 13th grade for smart Virginia kids.

My daughter goes to a public university in another state and 75 percent of school is out of state and international.

W&M is not a real college experience given so many Virginia residents [/quote]
given that most of college students go to in state colleges where most have students from in state, I'd say that is the normal, "real" college experience.[/quote]

This argument is always so stupid to me if you grew up in DC/NoVA/MoCo.

My kids have friends from all over the world.  We lived in Georgetown when my son was born and all of his early friends (and mine) were from Europe or S.America.  He has maintained contact with many that now live in Brussels, Berlin, etc.  We moved close-in VA when he was starting school and his sibling was born.  The public was very International.  Again, many classmates had parents in foreign service, diplomats, world bank and there was also a large portion of first generation immigrants. They have friends that left and came back from Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar, etc.

So--as a donut hole family, I'm not particularly worried about it being '13th grade'. I went to a state VA school and my roommate was out of state and the other VA friends I made I did not know prior. One of the great things about having friends from the general area you grew up is rides to and from school and hanging out together over the summer, etc.

We live in the 'city' again.  D.C. and my kids often take the train up to NYC to visit cousins, etc.  They take the Metro to get to and from high school.

I just will never understand this argument.  Yeah- I guess they could go to UNC where it's 75% students from North Carolina and that is going to be a much more homogenous group than kids from VA.[/quote]

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