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To me it’s more like someone saying they hate Yale and love Harvard or vice versa. And in this example especially if the family lived in the south vs, the northeast. In retrospect I think Yale would have been a better fit for me, but I had a fine time at Harvard. As far as OP is concerned, I had the sense that maybe she’d like to be further away from her family and trying a new part of the US on for size - and that, I totally get. So even though the universities are probably quite similar in many ways, I think if she/he wants to see if the switch could be made at this late date - why not.</p>
<p>I do think it’s possible she just met a bad subset of OSU students. I know my younger son felt like ultimately school visits and especially overnights probably were less reflective of the school culture than he had thought.</p>