Why Do Females Choose Colleges Close to Home?

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<p>Question: Why do females tend to stay closer to home than males do when picking a college?Do females stay closer to home than males? Maybe so, but that’s a stat I’ve never seen. In fact, when I do a mental inventory of my own high school classmates and their college choices, harking back nearly four […]</p>

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<p>I have not seen a pattern of girls choosing colleges closer to home.</p>

<p>Among my kids’ friends, there seem to be as many guys as girls at nearby colleges, and as many girls as guys who chose to go farther away.</p>

<p>In my own family, my son chose our state university, less than an hour from home, and my daughter chose a different schools that’s more than a six-hour drive away. This didn’t seem unusual to anyone in the family.</p>

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<p>My less than non-random sample of high achieving female seniors at my S’s HS (he’s a Jr) indicates a strong desire to go AWAY to school. We’re in CA so that means the NE for this pack of girls.</p>

<p>My S, on the other hand, appears to be California-centric. So my task is to at least open his eyes to the world beyond CA. It’s not like he hasn’t traveled. He’s visited many regions of the US, including Alaska, and also been fortunate enough to visit 7 foreign countries.</p>

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<p>Why do people feel they ask sexist questions, when my guess is the same people would never ask “Why do African-Americans blah blah blah”</p>