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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College students care much less about museums and culture than parents. Students choose OOS flagships bc they want a big school, big sports experience. These schools are mostly in cities where the university is the center of the city.

It’s not for everybody, but many students like the traditional college experience. [/quote]

+100[/quote]

Absolutely agree.  They want the big school, big sports experience - it's not because the towns of the OOS flagships are so great in comparison to their home cities.  [/quote]

I don’t think the towns even necessarily need to be “better”. Just being somewhere different is fun. [/quote]
er.. different is not always fun. [/quote]

You’ll never know if you don’t try. [/quote]
Sure, and they may hate it.

I have lived in different cities and state across the country.  My spouse even moved to a different continent.  Different is not always better.  But, sure, I can understand wanting to try it.

The PP stated " Just being somewhere different is fun."

My point is that just because it's different, doesn't make it more "fun" or better.
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Some places aren’t necessarily “better” than other places but being somewhere new is fun for some people. Shake up the routine. Try new things. Appreciate things you like in other places.

People can find enjoyable things to do in most places where colleges are located.

YMMV. [/quote]
"Try new things.."'  what new things can an 18 yr old in PA try that they can't try in MD or VA? [/quote]

Go to Penn state football game? [/quote]
? that's kind of silly.  You can still go to a Penn State football game while you attend UVA or UMD.  They allow non students to attend their games you know.[/quote]

I'm not the pp you quoted.
But Penn state isn't exactly a short trip from UVA or UMD.   You'd need a car, which many college students don't have, and aren't able to rent due to age.   A hotel room.  I don't know about Penn state specifically but many college football stadiums have a "student section" which are the most fun for students--if you don't have a student ID (for that specific school) you can't get in to those sections.[/quote]
I'm sorry, but that's a dumb answer to the question, though.

paying oos so that they could go to the football games there and sit in the student section -- seems to be a superficial, immature reason to pay oos for college.[/quote]

Strawman. The question was what is something you can do in PA but not VA/MD. NOT why does the kid want to go to school OOS. 
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Ok, but you can say, "I can have an actually Philly cheesesteak made in Philly rather than one made in MD".  See how ridiculous cherry picking[b] "things I can't do in MD or VA"[/b] seems.[/quote]

Literally no one said that was the reason why they picked an OOS school.  [/quote]

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