<p>Only difference would be I wouldn’t apply to UT. I’d apply to my state flagship instead.</p>
<p>Obviously those from California would apply to the elite UC colleges and those in Virginia would apply to UVA/W&M.</p>
<p>If I lived in California, my in-state school choice would likely be UCLA/UCB/Stanford rather than NCSU/UNC/Duke. And if I lived in Georgia, I would likely be leaning more towards GT, though I did manage to get accepted but cannot attend due to financial reasons.</p>
<p>Oh, definitely. Most of my top choices are a couple hours away from where I currently live, plus I get a lot of aid at my state school. If I was in NY I’d be looking at nyu or rpi, in texas I’d obviously be thinking of ut austin but right now none of those are on my list. I’ll be going somewhere local for sure, no way I’m going off to the other side of the country.</p>
<p>It probably would be different, but not because of my location. I would have probably been a different person depending on my experience in high school, and maybe I would have wanted different things in a school. But otherwise, I don’t think it would have been different. I live in California and my schools are all over the place.</p>
<p>I would definitel have a different list. I would be much more open to the Los Angeles schools if I didn’t live half an hour away from them.</p>
<p>Yessss. If I lived in Cali, or maybe just generally on the west coast, I would have definitely applied to some of the California public schools. I’m on the opposite coast though, so yeah…</p>
<p>I think everyone’s answer to this is the same. If people live in states with good public colleges (California, Virginia, Michigan, North Carolina), they would naturally apply to them.</p>
<p>^No love for UT :(</p>
<p>Probably. I haven’t done a lot of research yet, but my main safety right now is UMass, because it’s in-state. I also have been looking at schools in the northeast. One reason is because that is the area I have always been in, so it would be the same culture. The other reason is that I would still like to remain relatively close to home rather than across the entire country. I would miss my cats too much (I know, that’s a silly thing to choose schools by)</p>
<p>I live in MS and sure as hell do not want to go to OLE Miss, MSU or Souther Miss</p>
<p>I really love a lot about Oberlin and how it was a leader in education women and African Americans, and is so avant garde.
If I lived somewhere else, I would probably see the city of Oberlin as adorable and endearing.
However, having visited the city of Oberlin many times growing up, I see it as a too-small town that could easily bore me that is, frankly, just way too close to home. It’s too bad haha.</p>