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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are three reasons OOS flagship schools are presently popular.

1) Kids want to leave the DMV, which is fairly boring, and experience a different corner of the country. Totally normal.

2) For kids with good stats, you can get some very good merit at public universities throughout the rest of the country. It's often cheaper to go the University of South Carolina or Indiana University than it is to go your instate options, particularly UVA and UMD, where it's difficult to get merit scholarships.

3) Schooling in the DMV has been depressing for the past 5 years. The long, long school closures during Covid. Virtual classes. The overkill with DEI lectures and assemblies every day. Micro-aggressions. Trans issues. It goes on and on and at a certain point kids are just rolling their eyes and want to get on with life. Students want to have a normal, traditional college experience. And they feel they are more likely to find it elsewhere. [/quote]

^ this is why I hope my kids end up somewhere else [/quote]
Nobody in their right mind would choose U of SC over UMD for CS or engineering.  That would be a dumb move.[/quote]

Or Math, Physics, Journalism, Political Science…[/quote]

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