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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes small regional private colleges, as well as community colleges, are seeing drops in enrollment. Given the expense it’s not strange that kids who might have enjoyed a private college choose a large cheaper state school.

But it’s not some simple rural vs urban thing, that’s a lazy argument. There are plenty of rural state schools that are popular - University of Illinois is pretty much surrounded by cornfields, but its enrollment and prestige are doing just fine.

I know kids who are turned off by urban campuses where you can’t really tell where campus ends and city begins.  [/quote]

You don’t see a difference between a state flagship with 45,000 students in a town with 220,000 people and a SLAC with 3,000 students in a town with 8,000 residents? They may both be surrounded by cornfields, but they are completely different experiences. [/quote]

Please. There are plenty of colleges in cute towns and plenty of large state schools in meh towns.

And you know there are private colleges that in the same towns as state schools, right?
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We’ll, yes. That’s the point. What surrounds the town isn’t relevant. What matters is the town itself. [/quote]

Unless you're an outdoors type who would like to go hiking or skiing on the weekends.

And let's face it. People are not attending Illinois State University because they want to be in Normal.
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