<p>Will OOS feel lonely, if majority in-state students go home during the weekend?</p>
<p>I’m worried about this too, as most of the people from my school are staying in state and can visit home on the weekends. But I think if you get accepted to a prestigious OOS school, you should have no regrets. You will meet new people and see a new part of the country, something that intrigues me about going out of state. </p>
<p>If you stay in state you will likely stay in state for future jobs, etc. If you go OOS, you will likely have a new life in a new, exciting setting, but still with the possibility of returning home as you will still be a resident in state and may have better job prospects there.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school. Some have a real “weekend commuter” feel, where students head home or elsewhere on the weekends, but some are places where students tend to stick around. You really just need to figure out which OOS schools are in which category.</p>
<p>@scscience, I don’t like my state univ that much. I either go private or to be oos. the sticker price for oos is still 1/2 of the private colleges.
@bruno14, would you please give some college names in each category? thx</p>
<p>*Will OOS feel lonely, if majority in-state students go home during the weekend? *</p>
<p>What school are you talking about?</p>
<p>What % of kids are from OOS? </p>
<p>Is the state large in physical size where many instate students would still live too far to go home?</p>
<p>Is it in a state that is small in physical size where many of the instate and OOS students are still within an easy driving distance?</p>
<p>If the campus empties out on weekends, then it can be a REAL problem.</p>
<p>Let me share with you this story. A friend of mine and her H went to a regional state school in Ohio. This couple met at this school and therefore they had very strong feelings/ties to this school. When they attended, they commuted as most of the other students did. Those who lived on campus went home on weekends. </p>
<p>During their D’s senior year of high school, all they could talk about was sending their D to this OOS school…(about 1000 miles away).</p>
<p>We all warned them that their D would not likely have the same experience as they did. They wouldn’t listen. Their D (brainwashed by all the parent “happy talk”) happily went off to this school. </p>
<p>Oh my…you should have seen the “bad to worse” Facebook postings that started coming within a few weeks . By mid-semester, she applied to transfer out. She’s now at another OOS school, but it’s a Flagship and therefore has many more residential students, and a good number of OOS students. Unfortunately, because she went to this second school as a transfer, she no longer qualified for the good-sized merit that she would have gotten as an incoming frosh. So, the family learned a very expensive lesson. :(</p>
<p>If a good number of students are coming from a distance then most will not be commuting or going home on weekends. Additionally, if the school has a “spirited campus” with big sports to watch, then many kids will be on campus on weekends.</p>
<p>Regional/directional (non-flagship) publics are likely going to have this problem. Those schools largely serve a local region.</p>
<p>Thanks mom2collegekids, I’m interested in UMD-CP, Penn state and UNC-CH, do you know anything about oos over there?</p>
<p>If you friend’s D found a BF in Ohio school, it would be a different story 
If oos feel lonely, they need BF/GF :-)</p>
<p>State flagship research universities such as UMD, Penn State and UNC are heavily residential and the vast majority of students do not go home on weekends. At IU, weekends are party central if that’s your thing.</p>
<p>The schools that you mention are flagships that don’t have a bunch of kids leaving on weekends.</p>
<p>however, only UNC-CH gives great need-based aid…if you QUALIFY for that aid. Do you know how much your family will have to pay?</p>
<p>Since it sounds like you’re OOS for all these schools, will your parents pay the high costs for Penn St or UM-CP? If not, then they won’t work out.</p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>