<p>In-state students tend to consider in-state universities. That fact is true in every state. Even if 100 students from your graduating class attended UA, what is the chance that you will have to interact with them very much when there are over 30,000 students on campus? Seeing someone in a 100+ person class is very different from having to take every class with them and then living in the same residence hall aka neighborhood as you did in high school.That said, people do change once they get to college. A person you didn’t get to know much in high school might end up becoming your best friend.</p>
<p>Just because one can name a number of high schools in Alabama, New Orleans, and Dallas which send a lot of students to UA doesn’t mean that students care beyond simple curiosity where their classmate went to high school. </p>