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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of US college students enroll within 50 miles of home.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/03/when-students-enroll-college-geography-matters-more-policy-makers-think[/quote]

My kid graduated from a Montgomery County high school last spring, graduating class of around 600 I think.  There's no way a majority of that class was even [i]admitted[/i] to schools within 50 miles of home.  Sure, a good number of those kids are going to MC, UMD, UMBC and the various other publics and privates in and around DC, but there's no way that number is over 300.  UMD for example is just not going to accept that many kids from one high school.[/quote]

Regardless of what you think about your hyper-local situation, that is what the data says.

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At public four-year colleges, the median distance students live from home is 18 miles. That number is 46 miles for private nonprofit four-year colleges, and only eight miles at public two-year colleges.[/b][/quote]

There are a lot more kids graduating from the DC area high schools each year than there are students in the freshman class at the University of Maryland.  To say that the median distance from home is 18 miles does not translate into the inverse being true - that most of the kids within 18 miles of UMD go there.  That sort of dynamic may exist in many states across the US, but it is simply not true in the DC area.  Yes, my "hyper-local situation" bears that out.  UMD won't even admit that many kids from a single high school in Maryland to make that kind of statistic even possible.[/quote]

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