<p>I actually transferred here from Boston University and our school had somewhere around 25%~27% of students from out of state from many different states, including NJ, NY, MD, VA, CT, etc. and a close friend of mine is a student at Maryland, which I have visited a few times as well and met many students that are from outside Maryland. I'm pretty sure down in Penn State, many of the students are from out of state as well. However, over here at Rutgers, it literally seems that everyone is from New Jersey! Trust me, I've met tons of students here so far and not one single person I have met is from out of state with an exception to one kid who just recently moved to NJ from Upstate, but that's pretty much it. According to collegeboard, only 5% of the whole student body are from out of state. Is Rutgers not like a popular school that students end up going to? I kind of feel like an outcast when I'm like the only non Jersey-ian or however you say it at this university.</p>
<p>New Jersey as a whole has one of the largest amounts of college students in the nation and sends the most students out of state for college of any state in the country. There’s simply a ton of students in NJ hence the NJ state schools have a lot of people from NJ. It’s also a matter of tuition. For an OOS student to go to Rutgers, it costs almost as much as a private school and there aren’t too many scholarships offered to OOS students. Couple this with the fact that the in state tuition rates are much lower practically anywhere else in the country means that a lot of people who are looking for a large state school tend to pick their state’s own school rather than going to Rutgers and paying double or even triple.</p>
<p>^Your statement is flawed because schools like Maryland, even Michigan has nearly identical tuition rates or even more expensive tuition rates than Rutgers for OOS students yet their OOS student % remains above 20% while Rutgers is at a very low 5%. That’s a big difference. Explain this? </p>