Note, however, that many students and parents have financial constraints that may limit them to in-state public universities and community colleges, often just the ones in commuting range (though these local colleges may still be more diverse in some ways than high schools due to their larger service areas). So most students may not be able to do college in another part of the country even if they wanted to. The students with the academic credentials to attend good-financial-aid private colleges or earn large merit scholarships, or with parents willing to pay private or out-of-state public school prices, are probably outliers among college-bound students overall.