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This is sort of obvious, isn’t it? It’s a state school - by definition, most of the students will be from in-state.</p>
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Of course you won’t know anyone there. No one knows anyone but the handful of kids who went to their high school. How many is that going to be - 10 or 20? Out of 20,000. It will be the same at every other school on your list.</p>
<p>As for being too big - it is easy to make a big school smaller, and this will happen anyway because the kids you hang with the most will be in your dorm and in your major.</p>
<p>It will be easy to meet people if you are a little pro-active - i.e., get out of your dorm room and get involved in some activities. When I hear kids complain that they are not making friends or meeting people, it is almost always because they are standing back waiting for it to happen to them. You have to <em>make</em> it happen. Put yourself out there, and you will have tons of friends. This is true at every school, too.</p>