Mom doesn't want me to go to an out of state college/university

You opinion. We know students who attend who attend Rutgers and TCNJ as OOS students and really find the schools to be excellent.

UNCW is a nice school too. And it’s great your family agreed to send you there. But not all families would choose to do so.

^those are the only two, though. And they are obviously the outliers as the only two good NJ publics. Still puzzling that any OOSer would choose either of those schools, though. Very puzzling.

Anyways. This is way OT. OP still hasn’t provided us with any context whatsoever for some reason.

Plus…the colleges in VA are top notch schools…well at least several are. The OP hasn’t provided a compelling reason to go OOS…at least nothing I’ve seen.

One of the deciding factors in moving to Virginia was the public school system and its excellent instate colleges.