<p>Other people have asked it, but I'm going to, as well.</p>
<p>Does this full ride include room and board? If so, then maybe you should take it. Do you hate the place you live, as in the city? Hating the city you live in and hating home life are two very different things. I hate living at home, but I like my city well enough. </p>
<p>Do you really hate the school you got the full ride to, or do you find it decent enough, but don't like the idea of going there because you'd have to live at home?</p>
<p>I think you should seriously consider it once you've visited campus, learned more about the school, and if the full ride includes room and board. You like the campus, like the ACADEMICS, and the student body doesn't seem so bad, consider it.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd be miserable going to college but having to live at home. It wouldn't matter if I loved the school to death and got a full ride. I'd still hate it.</p>
<p>"if I had to go to a school where people weren't even close to the top 10% of their high school class, I would probably drop out of college because I would be so miserable"</p>
<p>I know kids in the 2-3% of my class who really don't deserve to be there. Seriously, the person ranked #5 cheats in every class I've had with her and always asks the person ranked #1 for help before she even looks at the assignment. Rank doesn't mean that much in some high schools.</p>
<p>cool brezze, this is what makes the world so diverse and unique in its own different ways. everyone is different and my case is that just the fact I would leave home, I get scared to death and its coming from a transfer student not even a freshman. I am even applying to privates since they are a little easier to get into and closer to where I live. There's no way in hell I would like to leave home, just to pay extra cash and live "college experience", I'd rather stay chilled, study hard, be in my city, and not having to live away from my own bed. </p>
<p>and responding to haik.. well thats a difference of opinion and yeah I respect your way of thinking in that you wouldnt like to stay in the same city because it would be boring for you. Personally, I love the fact i could have a fixed place and job i am a very routineous and dont get bored that easily. It's really hard for me to even consider being bored. I can do the same thing everyday, and be conformed as long as I am happy, and smiling. Again this is how I feel, and everyone has different intentions on to why going to college and living on campus makes them better off. I personally am not considering the idea, and wont ever do it, this would be my last, last option. Like I am going to be sincere, if this wouldnt be my year in that I get to my dream schools, (UCLA, AND OCCIDENTAL THAT IS) I dont care how I would do it, but I would definitely consider taking the bus 3 hours to where I live, or car whichever, and go to the nearest one which in this case coincidently happens to be UCSB, but this is my last option. I hope everything goes well and to all of you. good luck!</p>
<p>If I get into UCLA (lol!), I will definitely go there even though I live only about a half hour away. I'll live on campus and get an apartment later. I don't see how that could be considering staying at home, since it's just the same area. I personally love SoCal and would love to live here the rest of my life, so eh. If you really want to go away though, do it :)</p>
<p>Yup, agree completely: whether or not you want to leave home has a LOT to do with where you live, what it's like and whether or not you want to leave it. The fact that you're feeling torn about this means that something larger is at stake here. If you're so opposed to doing the easy thing in this situation--living comfortably at home with a free ride and everything, then it must mean that you REALLY want to leave--and most of the time, the best things in life DO NOT come easy. </p>
<p>Personally, I'd do anything to leave the small town I live in, but that's just me--and we have a pretty mediocre UC in the vicinity. And mediocre is not an understatement. I know some stellar stellar students with top grades in our class who WANT to stay here, cuz they love it so much here--and all I can say is more power to them:) To each his/her own.</p>
<p>I'm debating to move out or not - the school I'm going to will be a 45 minute drive from home, or a 2 hour commute via commuter bus and the MUNI Metro. </p>
<p>Kinda makes me wish I didn't screw up at the community college.</p>
<p>As somebody who is currently living at home, I say you will probably be happier if you leave. My situation is a bit different because I'm at home in order to take care of a chronically ill family member, but I'm not happy about my situation and look forward to getting out. But if it's going to put a major stress on you financially, it may not be worth it. Can you go to the local school for two years and then transfer?</p>
<p>It wouldn't be the end of the world to go to school near where you live now. I had to live at home for 3 years and go to my local school because I couldn't afford anything else. I survived and in fact, made new lifelong friends and got a good job and lived somewhere else after I graduated. </p>
<p>If you do go to your local school, just get involved and meet new people and try new things. College is as much a state of mind as a place. I grew up in a college town and thought I knew the University and that I'd know everyone there from my home town, but that did not turn out to be the case at all. None of my friends I made in college were from my home town, nor did I continue to do a lot of social things with my high school friends simply because I grew into a different person with different interests, and it happened right in my back yard.</p>
<p>I am a parent of a HS senior and a college junior and I insisted that they both at least try living away from home. I lived at home and attended my local college for 4 years and worked at night to put myself through. I wish so much I had the opportunity to go live at college. I feel it is a totally different experience. My college experience was similar to going to high school for 4 more years and I did not come away with any close friends (except for one terrific husband - married 29 years). My son is living about 1.5 hours away and it has been an incredible college experience for him. He has made so many close friends (that is what happens when you live with a group of people) and has tried many things he would not have tried had he been living at home. Half of his growing up has had nothing to do with the academics but as much to do with living away from home. He too was a little timid about leaving but it has been the best experience for him.</p>