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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because there is an advantage to expanding one’s worldview.  That is not a knock on staying in state as there are other pluses and minuses but I view the new frame of reference is important[/quote]

But is it worth an extra 200,000?[/quote]

No it is not worth it. These state schools are just as homogeneous as UMD and the Virginia ones, as far as geography. [b]So I don't see it being worth for DC to meet a bunch of people from WI,[/b] PA, or CO. If you really want to expand your world view, go to a private school, where you will get demographic diversity. You won't find that at a state flagship.[/quote]
I went to Wisconsin. There are a lot of students from the east coast there and to a slightly lesser extent, California. It was always funny to me because those students almost universally tended to hang out with each other (ok, maybe if they really wanted to expand their boundaries they'd hang out with kids from Mequon or Lake Forest!!!). They usually lived in private apartments or one or two specific residence halls known to have a lot of coastal/Greek life students - NOT the residence halls with all of the Wisconsin schmucks. They tended to all join the same handful of fraternities or sororities. They definitely weren't associating in any meaningful way with kids from say, the rural Northwoods or inner city Milwaukee schools.

I can't speak to other states, but Wisconsin? Yeah, it didn't seem to be about anything like more than a change of scenery and wanting to go to a party school. Which is fine, no judgment, but expanding one's worldview? Hahahah. Hilariously and adorably gullible. [/quote]

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