<p>For me, in state schools include:
Harvard
MIT
Tufts
Olin
BU
BC
Brandeis
Northeastern
Amherst
etc.</p>
<p>So I wasn't even planning on applying out of state. ;)</p>
<p>I'm just glad GA has some great schools with highly ranked programs (state run and private). And, AA is not performed in most state institutions here (except for socio-economic... they do allow you some slack of you come from a ****ty school).</p>
<p>Even though I live in a small town in South Dakota and not much is offered at the local, state, or regional level, I still feel that our schools educate us really well. And, surprisingly, we're very educationally up-to-date and can even check our class grades, assignments, attendance, and transcripts on-line.</p>