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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^this doesn't include transfers.[/quote]

A: "My daughter's high school sends 100 to UVA every year."

B: "TJ is the only school that sends 100 to UVA per year."

A: "I was including transfers"
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Stop being hyper-literal. There are dozens of schools that send 30 40 70 of kids each year to UVA. A teen in Fairfax can step on campus and know HUNDREDS of kids at UVA. Some people love that; I think that's high school 2.0.[/quote]
Uh no, there are not dozens of schools that send 30 40 70 kids each year to UVA. The top two schools are at 106 and 45...[/quote]

Not that PP, but kids know other kids from the class above them, the class below them, various sport leagues and activities. Even if an individual HS class only has 45 kids it still might seem like a lot of people they know on campus. 
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They may not even know the 45 from their school though, and maybe a handful from other schools. My DC went to a big university with 18 kids from her high school class. Similar numbers in surrounding years. So about 70-80 there at any one time, plus kids from other local schools. DC was friends with some of the 18, and some of the others, but maybe sees 10 of them on any kind of regular basis. Between dorms, Greek life, specialty academic program, etc there are plenty of opportunities to meet other people and DCs friends are from all over the country. [/quote]

Np. The problem with going in state is that a lot of people use college as an opportunity to reinvent themselves. It's much easier to do that if you go away to school. I won't say it's impossible but it's harder to do when you're only 2 hours from home and you occasionally come across people who have known you since elementary school or even just your dorky freshman high school phase. Someone on your floor, in your chosen sorority, in classes. It stifles individual self expression.

Now is it worth an extra $30k a year to enable your kid to recreate themselves? Depends entirely on how much money you have. [/quote]

I'm the poster above who posted about my DCs university with lots of kids from her high school. About 20 kids from DCs high school class went to Cornell and about 10 went to Georgetown (several of them were faculty kids). How is that any different really than a group going to UVA (unless it's TJ with 100). People don't consider Cornell to be high school 2.0. My DC goes to a school of 25k+ undergrads and ended up running into a kid she went to daycare with. These kinds of things are going to happen no matter where you go. But I don't think my DC feels like it's a continuation of high school (or day care) in any respect, even if she keeps in touch with a few friends from high school on campus.

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