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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some students are more adventurous than others and prefer exploring a new location in a different state and, possibly, region of the country.

[b]Many who attend their state flagship complain a bit about too many kids from my high school or area.[/b][/quote]

This is such a trope that some people use to slight kids that go to in-state schools and/or to feel smug about their kids going to OOS schools.  As if simply seeing students they know from high school on campus is a terrible thing.  [/quote]

Doesn’t make it less true.  A lot of kids hate high school and want to “remake” themselves somewhere else where there aren’t a bunch of kids that knew them before.[/quote]

State flagships with low percentages of, and/or caps on, OOS students (e.g., University of Tennessee) are more "High School 2.0" than, say, UVA or VT which have at least one-third or more OOS students.  You're just at someone else's high school where lots of people know each other and you don't.  I've heard several kids at OOS publics complain that some people (not the majority, to be sure) on their halls or in their clubs tend to hang out with students they know from their high school days and it was thus kind of tough to break in. [/quote]

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