<p>do a lot of southerners go to the school? or are the majority from the northern states?</p>
<p>A lot of people are from Va Beach or NoVa, which aren’t traditional southern areas at all.</p>
<p>In short, yes. But its very diverse. There are people from everywhere in Va as well as northern states. Most out of state people i know are from NC or PA. Im from FL. There are also a ton of international students.</p>
<p>This is on the VT website [Freshman</a> Snapshot | Undergraduate Admissions | Virginia Tech](<a href=“http://www.admiss.vt.edu/apply/snapshot.php]Freshman”>http://www.admiss.vt.edu/apply/snapshot.php)</p>
<p>Top 5 home states of out-of-state freshmen (for 2008 freshman class):</p>
<p>Maryland, 561 students
Pennsylvania, 249 students
New Jersey, 246 students
North Carolina, 183 students
New York, 84 students</p>
<p>Virginia Tech is not very southern at all, but the surrounding area is. The vast majority of the students come from: Northern Virginia, Virginia Beach, and Richmond. Now richmond actually ends up with a few people who are “kind-of” southern, in that they might have a slight accent and identify with traditional southern culture, but they are by no means a stereotype. If you’re looking for southern culture here you can easily find it, but it’s by no means a “Southern” school.</p>