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Anonymous wrote:My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

That's hardly "going home every weekend." Who wouldn't take the opportunity to study in a quiet place for exams?

And who needs to have everyone in their dorm around when they’re studying for midterms and finals. Seems like that’s the time when kids are least likely to want/need a full house or a crowd.

Anonymous wrote:My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

That's hardly "going home every weekend." Who wouldn't take the opportunity to study in a quiet place for exams?

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Anonymous wrote:The terminology really doesn't matter. OP clearly meant flagship to be the most selective state school in the state.

The fact that Michigan is 50% OOS and Georgia Tech only 10% is most pertinent, and suggests that being OOS at GT could be socially isolating.

I fail to see what difference it would make if a student was in-state or OOS. No one ostracizes someone simply because they're from another state. This is a bizarre way of thinking. My DC attends an OOS school in which most kids come from that state. No one cares!

It absolutely matters. Friend groups from high school move to college together at schools that are 80%+ in state. It is hard to break into that kind of a social scene, get accepted into Greek life, etc. They all already know one another!

Serious question: do you have a kid at one of these schools? Because in real life, "friend groups from high school" aren't moving to their in-state colleges en masse. Sure, there might be some kids from the same high school who you would barely see, but it's just silly to make up stories about entire high school friend groups attending the same college so they'll never have to be apart. No one actually does this.

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Anonymous wrote:My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

Yup and on the other thread DCUM claimed this stuff *never* happens. I have nieces and nephews at various state flagships. They are randomly home on the weekends throughout the school year. I bet that on any weekend there are hundreds of students heading home.

No one ever said that some kids don’t go home “for a night or two” during midterms and finals. And hundreds out of tens of thousands is hardly something meaningful.

Anonymous wrote:My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

This can happen at flagships in small states like Maryland or Delaware or Rhode Island. Bigger states like Texas, Florida, or even Ohio or Indiana are less likely to see this dynamic. Anyone who lives more than a 2hr or max 3hr drive is not going home for a night or two to study or get a home cooked meal or whatever.

Anonymous wrote:My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

Yup and on the other thread DCUM claimed this stuff *never* happens. I have nieces and nephews at various state flagships. They are randomly home on the weekends throughout the school year. I bet that on any weekend there are hundreds of students heading home.

My niece at UMD was really surprised when more than half of her dorm went home for a night or two to study for midterms and then again for finals.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The terminology really doesn't matter. OP clearly meant flagship to be the most selective state school in the state.

The fact that Michigan is 50% OOS and Georgia Tech only 10% is most pertinent, and suggests that being OOS at GT could be socially isolating.

I fail to see what difference it would make if a student was in-state or OOS. No one ostracizes someone simply because they're from another state. This is a bizarre way of thinking. My DC attends an OOS school in which most kids come from that state. No one cares!

It absolutely matters. Friend groups from high school move to college together at schools that are 80%+ in state. It is hard to break into that kind of a social scene, get accepted into Greek life, etc. They all already know one another!

Just ask any oos kid at Texas how hard it is to join a fraternity.

Exactly!

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Why would anyone want to go to Cal Poly Pomona? And, yeah, I'm a Californian. Where did that suggestion come from?

What’s your take on Cal Poly SLO, as a Californian?

Well if you can get in elsewhere do it. It is ranked only as a regional school by USNWR. Acceptance rate is high at 30%. 84% graduation rate which drops to only 64 % for first time students and so on

"As a Californian" wasn't your cue. You're meant to wait for, "As an ignoramus." (And you've broken the HTML, which I've now fixed.)