How many of you guys are attending a university close to home?

College Search & Selection
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<p>So, during my high school graduation, I got a little red sheet with the names of the members of the class and what college/university they will be going to. From the looks of it, over 4/5 of my year's graduating class is staying the state of Massachusetts in order to get their university education, including myself.</p>

<p>I live barely 2.5 miles away from Boston College. I guess I am the true meaning of a local attending a local university. Both my home and Boston College are located in the same neighborhood, nonetheless.</p>

<p>How about you guys? Did you attend a university very far away from home, or did you elect to stay in the neighborhood? (It was quite literally "in the neighborhood" in my case.)</p>

<p>I elected to stay home because it's just convenient and far more cheaper than packing my bags and heading off to a far away land... I didn't feel mature enough to live on my own quite yet. And plus, Boston is home to some of the world's finest universities, nonetheless.</p>

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<p>I pray to god that I don’t end up attending a university close to home, not only because there are only three major universities in my state, none of which remotely interest me.</p>

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<p>I live in North Carolina and I applied to one college in Maine, two in Massachusetts, one in New York, two in Pennsylvania, and one in Ohio. As you can tell, I was interested in ‘getting away.’ :)</p>

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<p>That would be way too close for me. Although mine is just an hour and a quarter or so away.</p>

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<p>My university is about 4.5 hours away, not including traffic. :]</p>

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<p>I wanted to get away, but not too far away. I live in Upstate NY and applied to colleges in NY, PA, DC, VA and MD. I’m going to a school that’s about an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half away.</p>

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<p>I wanted to get away and venture out.</p>

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<p>I’m going to college 16 hours away in South Carolina! but most of my friends are going to school in the Boston area (BC, Tufts, Northeastern, Bentley, Simmons, Wheelock, Suffolk, MIT, Harvard etc…)</p>

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<p>I’m going to the other coast. I was not interested in any of the in-state universities.</p>

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<p>I was from the Philadelphia suburbs and went to Penn. It’s about half an hour away. The nice thing is you can be as close or as far (in pscyhological distance) from your home as you choose to be. I actually went home less than some kids who lived much farther away.</p>

<p>But just knowing it was there was always nice.</p>

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<p>I’m 20 minutes from my house in the Philly burbs.</p>

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<p>My two Ds are over 1000 miles away - GA to MA. It wasn’t the distance that they were seeking, it was the difference in culture and lifestyle that they wanted to experience.</p>

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<p>My two S’s stayed instate 3 and 4 hours from home.</p>

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<p>I’m an hour from home and wish I would’ve gone at least a 15 hour drive away. It’s not a matter of seeing high school friends all the time–I rarely do, and like being able to catch up for a few minutes. I do get tired of family dropping in and saying “well you’re only an hour away, thought we’d surprise you and go out for dinner” and i’m like “hellooooo…i have plans/studying/work/out of town/insert whatever else may come up” I don’t mind when they give me a heads up a few days in advance but it’s annoying. If I wanted to be around family all the time I would’ve gone to the school in my hometwon.</p>

<p>I did get a laugh out of the time I decided to roadtrip to Chicago with my roommates for a weekend to see some baseball games, and my parents called asking if I was in my room because they wanted to go eat somewhere. Oddly enough they still show up unannounced, despite the fact that this could happen again. [/rant]</p>

<p>Luckily my intended career allows me to move anywhere in the country to work, and I plan on making up for my college lack of distance by applying only to locations at least a day’s drive or day’s worth of flying away. I’ve been to all 48 states so it’s not a matter of experiencing something “different”, it’s a matter of getting away from home.</p>

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<p>I suppose, just to add, my college is all the way in Portland, Oregon. My home is in Miami, Florida. But this is nothing compared to an old friend out of high school in Miami–she went to Alaska Pacific University.</p>

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<p>I live in a really central part of the east coast anyway. I’m looking at schools that a between two and eight hours away by car. It helps to be closer because transportation is expensive… if $500 of the $2000 I make during the summer goes toward transportation and a good chunk goes toward books, it means veeeeeeery little spending money.</p>