<p>applicannot-- I know two people who ended up transferring out of GW because FA was way better elsewhere, although they both felt initially that they had received good packages (at least one had an EFC of 0).</p>
<p>Duke, Vanderbilt, William & Mary, Rice, Emory, Davidson, Washington & Lee compare well with the Northeast schools. Esp if you want to live in the South after graduation.</p>
<p>A picture is worth a thousand words…</p>
<p>[File:2007</a> US News Top 40 colleges.gif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007_US_News_Top_40_colleges.gif]File:2007”>File:2007 US News Top 40 colleges.png - Wikipedia)</p>
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<p>^^ In that picture, the top 40 colleges are located east of the Mississippi River.</p>
<p>I would say that, generally speaking, students who very strongly don’t want to leave the Northeast feel that way for one of three reasons (and more than one reason can apply to a person, certainly):
-they want to stay close(r) to home/friends
-they have formed largely negative stereotypes about other areas of the country
-financial reasons (either staying in-state for public school tuition or worrying about the cost of flights)</p>
<p>The first and third ones can be legitimate reasons, IMO.</p>
<p>There are plenty of people who don’t want to seek out adventure and new-ness, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I think it’s good to seek out new experiences, including living in a new area of the country, but I also think that it’s not bad to want to stay closer to home. It depends entirely on the person, and what he/she is looking for in his/her college experience.</p>
<p>because Columbia, Princeton, and Penn are all within a 90 minute drive from my location in NJ? i really don’t have a huge reason to leave.</p>
<p>With the exception of New York City, nothing in the Northeast is appealing. Chicago has more to offer than anything over there, besides NYC.</p>
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<li>You could also argue that it’s not just any one city that makes the northeast awesome, it’s the incredible concentration of cities that are readily accessible to each other. Chicago is a great city, but that’s all you have. I’d rather have Philadelphia, DC, and Boston as neighboring cities than Milwaukee and Detroit…</li>
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<li>You could also argue that it’s not just any one city that makes the northeast awesome, it’s the incredible concentration of cities that are readily accessible to each other. Chicago is a great city, but that’s all you have. I’d rather have Philadelphia, DC, and Boston as neighboring cities than Milwaukee and Detroit…"</li>
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<p>Milwaukee is actually a nice city, as is Minneapolis. St. Louis has some very wealthy areas as well, as does Kansas City. Honestly, living in the 'burbs of any major city in the country is pretty much the same thing.</p>
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<p>Metropolitan suburb living…ur doin it rong!</p>
<p>as someone who originally grew up in the northeast before moving out to the midwest, I agree with the northeastern sentiment.
People are just different there, and a lot of the time, it’s a good type of different…like more driven, more stylish, refined, cultured, unique, etc.</p>
<p>In NYC, practically NO ONE wears the riff raff from Aeropostale or Abercrombie and whatnot…especially not girls. And yet midwesterners and suburban folk seem to think it is “all the rage” when in fact, they are just ugly, cheap, printed t-shirts/polos made by some poor third-world child.</p>
<p>I know that all sounds elitist, but…meh. NYC is truly in a league of its own. Even cities like Chicago and LA are really just wannabes.</p>
<p>Yakyu Spirits is clearly ■■■■■■■■, hes never been to Boston, Philadelphia, or DC. I bet you’ve only been to NYC, i live about 20 min from NYC, but i think Boston is 10 times better.</p>
<p>When I look at our high school’s college bound graduates in the newspaper, there is a preference to staying in the Northeast-New England, NY, PA typically. My S already stated he would not look elsewhere & this was in the Spring of his junior year. I just feel that the kids don’t want to hop on a plane when there are so many great schools in their region. They constantly see T-shirts, sweatshirts etc. of Northeast colleges & universities as they are growing up & hear/read about their sports teams. It just may also be the fear of the unknown!</p>
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Yay, an excuse to quote my favorite Cambridge study.</p>
<p>[New</a> Yorkers are neurotic and unfriendly, says Cambridge University ‘personality map’](<a href=“New Yorkers are neurotic and unfriendly, says Cambridge University 'personality map'”>New Yorkers are neurotic and unfriendly, says Cambridge University 'personality map')</p>
<p>*AGREEABLENESS
Personality traits: Warm, compassionate, co-operative and friendly.</p>
<p>Highest-scoring states: North Dakota, Minnesota, Mississippi, Utah, Wisconsin, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Nebraska.</p>
<p>Lowest-scoring states: New York, Nevada, Wyoming, District of Columbia, Alaska, Maine, Rhode Island, Virginia, Connecticut, Montana.*</p>
<p>^ The study also cites North Dakota as the place with the nicest people. I’m pretty sure there are more cows there than people…lol. jk 
States like Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska, which aren’t exactly northeastern, are also on the list while places like Mass., New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Penn, Maryland, are not there 
I know plenty of great New Yorkers, so such a study really doesn’t make any difference. IT only makes a difference/impacts the opinions of people who either:</p>
<p>1) Have never been to NYC
2) Don’t have any friends from NY
or 3) are, sadly, somewhat envious of the NYC lifestyle.</p>
<p>Also:</p>
<p>Personality traits: Curious, intellectual, creative.</p>
<p>Highest-scoring states: District of Columbia, New York, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington, California, Vermont, Colorado, Nevada, Maryland.</p>
<p>Lowest-scoring states: Wisconsin, Alabama, Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, Hawaii, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa, Delaware.</p>
<p>New York accents make me want to commit genocide</p>
<p>skateboarder-- as a NY Jew I’m pretty offended by that nonsense.</p>
<p>California has the most regionalism, almost no one goes to school outside California. The top students go to Stanford and Pomona, then the rest of the top tier goes to UCs and USC, and then the rest go to CSUs and MAYBE Arizona, Arizona State, or Oregon, but those are rare cases.</p>
<p>Melody- it’s fine, you graduated from my dream school</p>