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<p>Well, that’s a good point. In 2010, 91.1% of Rutgers’ freshman class was from New Jersey, so they wouldn’t have had much margin for error to admit more OOS applicants. But I don’t think the OOS applicants were exactly clamoring to get in, either, and it’s still the case that New Jersey exports college students by the boatload to all manner of out-of-state schools, public and private, selective and less so.</p>
<p>Just compare New Jersey’s student exports to Michigan’s. New Jersey’s largest export destination in 2010 was Penn State, which had a whopping 792 New Jersey residents in its freshman class in 2010, followed by Drexel (611), NYU (607), UDel (576), Boston U (419), Temple (404), Syracuse (394), and U Maryland (393). Michigan’s largest export destination (at least among top-75ish schools) was Notre Dame, with 92 Michigan residents in its 2010 freshman class, followed by Northwestern (81), Purdue (69), Indiana (59), Ohio State (46), Penn (34), Cornell (32), and Chicago (31). We’re looking at roughly an order of magnitude difference here. And Michigan is the bigger state in population, by about 11%.</p>
<p>I believe Wisconsin’s pattern is similar to Michigan’s, except for Wisconsin’s tuition reciprocity arrangement with Minnesota which allows large numbers of Wisconsin residents to attend Minnesota public colleges and universities (and vice versa) at in-state rates.</p>
<p>I’m still not sure, though, how much it’s Rutgers all those New Jerseyans are fleeing, or how much it’s New Jersey itself.</p>