College and University Blog
Far Away or Close to Home?
When it comes to choosing a college or university, your choices range from the school down the street to halfway across the world. For some, the prospect of going far from home seems like a necessary evil in order to attend a top pick institution. But for others, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel anywhere in the country or the world.
Whether you enjoy the idea of travel or not, going to a school far away from home has its advantages. Most importantly, it can increase your odds of acceptance, so if your goal is to go to the highest-ranked school you can possibly get into, going across the country (or the world) may just be your ticket to the upper tier. Why is this so? In a nutshell: diversity.
Many colleges and university have a genuine desire to diversity their student bodies, and even the less genuine among them recognize that increasing statistical diversity is to their advantage in the education marketplace. If you
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Elisabeth Bailey is a freelance writer and editor with particular interests in academics, food,and sustainability . She is also the author of A Taste of the Maritimes: Local, Seasonal Recipes the Whole Year Round and writes regularly for Canadian Farmers