<p>Thank you Tony! That was very helpful.</p>
<p>I wasn’t so concerned about it being “too Southern”- and to be honest, I really wouldn’t know what that would entail. I lived in Texas for a short time and my parents are from South America, so I really am not close minded about different ways of life. My concerns were more about how OOS as a whole fared, but I guess I failed to express that =P</p>
<p>I didn’t apply to my state school, UNH, because I didn’t want it to be a repeat of high school with a bunch of people from my high school or its surrounding towns, even though I actually love my HS friends to death. I know it’s very different, because you can’t even compare UNH to UNC academically or otherwise, but in this situation I’m just worried that NC students just do what (many) people at UNH do and stick with their old HS buddies, etc and I’ll feel even more of an outsider because I’m OOS.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh, and I want to visit! Badly. I just hope I can find the time to fly down with my mom sometime before the end of April. After all, I didn’t get accepted OOS in the first place because I had a bunch of free time with no job/ECs. I do know how important that is though!</p>