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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

seems like football especially is a big deal in colleges that don't have much else to do outside of campus life.

When you’re 18-22, the campus is your life. Lots of people like it that way too. Not everyone wants to attend college in a huge impersonal city. To each his own.

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Anonymous wrote:The main reason, at least in the case of Virginia, is that the state didn’t grow their flagship school enough. UVA is too small of a flagship for a state with over 8.5 million people in it. It’s half the size of its peers and isn’t serving the people of Virginia nearly as well as it should.

But you forgot to add in William & Mary. No State public system has something like W&M

Noob here .. can you please let us know what W&M offers that no State public system does ?

A $90k small Slac experience at about $38k all in

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Anonymous wrote:The main reason, at least in the case of Virginia, is that the state didn’t grow their flagship school enough. UVA is too small of a flagship for a state with over 8.5 million people in it. It’s half the size of its peers and isn’t serving the people of Virginia nearly as well as it should.

But you forgot to add in William & Mary. No State public system has something like W&M

Noob here .. can you please let us know what W&M offers that no State public system does ?

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Anonymous wrote:The Greek scene at the big OOS flagships is my only concern. Everything else seems a positive (except the steep prices if no merit, etc)

It’s not big outside of the SEC.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

It is a rich family flex. It signals my kids went where they wanted, where they felt happiest — price was not a factor at all. Same when you hear of a rich non-athlete kid going to some relatively obscure liberal arts private college. It’s because money was not a factor.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

seems like football especially is a big deal in colleges that don't have much else to do outside of campus life.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

The answer is Rush Tok

God forbid kids be made aware that Southern colleges are fun AND have great weather. Things were so much better when kids were naive and you had to go to the same handful of regional colleges everyone in your area funneled to. If you had the misfortune of being born in the Midwest, you had to go to a Rust Belt college with dreadful weather 90% of the school year.

Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

The answer is Rush Tok

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

Anonymous wrote:It seems that many more DMV grads are choosing OOS state flagships ahead of their mid and top ranked in state options. What is the appeal? Is it because it’s far from home? The cost is so much higher, I am confused why this is now en vogue.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

It is a pretty incredible experience.

It’s much more than just sports, although that’s a big part of it. The overall excellence of the school in virtually all of its offerings is simply remarkable. I can’t think of any other university in this country that does it as well.

For big 10 schools, it’s also the whole city. Ann Arbor, Columbus, Madison, Iowa city are all just kind of perfectly sized cities with such a vibrant culture around the university.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

It is a pretty incredible experience.

It’s much more than just sports, although that’s a big part of it. The overall excellence of the school in virtually all of its offerings is simply remarkable. I can’t think of any other university in this country that does it as well.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an OOS flagship but is sports such a big deal for these kids? Does sitting in Michigan Stadium six times a year generate so much interest?

It is a pretty incredible experience.