<p>hawkette, I'm well aware of why you started the thread. This is precisely why I think that collegehelp's inaccurate information on at least 2 schools should be corrected-- most especially since he omitted the #1 feeder state for one school, and the #2 feeder state for another. </p>
<p>If you are truly interested in just how regional a school may be, include the correct (and all) information. Otherwise, what's the point?</p>
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As for the state Us, I think the percentage of in-state students is a stark difference to the elite privates. Many (most?) students couldn't care less, but this bit of information might have some value.
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<p>For applicants who don't realize that all public universities will have a larger percentage of in-state students than not, then maybe they shouldn't be going off to college. ?? This is not, and surely shouldn't be, news to anyone.</p>
<p>jkh: My point is-- what's the point of posting this stuff, if it's incorrect, and nobody really cares to make the correction? I have no idea what your point is and don't really care. At least on that latter point, we agree.</p>
<p>jack, with the number of your posts, you should know by now that we are all the blind men with the elephant. I appreciate what people can supply and, overall, am mighty impressed with this site. Stop quibbling and start providing us with something worthwhile.</p>
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<p>danas: I just did. I corrected the information for Duke, and someone else corrected the information for Penn. I have no idea what other pieces of information from the other schools are incorrect up there, but I can bet that there are more. </p>
<p>If you want to believe everything you read on these boards as gospel, you're certainly free to do that. My advice to you (and this goes under the category of "something worthwhile," too, is to question everything you read on these boards. To read statistics or data of what anonymous people post on an Internet board as "gospel," and never question from where it originates, nor ever correct the information when you know it's wrong, seems both very naive and very lazy to me.</p>
<p>While I agree that the bottom line is somewhat interesting here--that most top schools (or otherwise) have their biggest draw from their own region), it shouldn't be news to anyone. And, certainly, the statement that public universities will have a larger percentage of in-state students than private schools is--duh-- a given. Again, if you didn't know that before reading it here . . . well, that's a bigger problem.</p>
<p>If you really view yourself as a "blind man with the elephant," you should be happy when people post corrections to "data" that's presented here. To each his own.</p>
<p>It was me that noted the NY info for Penn was missing.
So what. I appreciated the info, and got a quick response.
Pretty freaking good, in my book!</p>