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Originally Posted by peter12
Doesn't matter. Go to where your program is best. Don't spend ridiculous amounts of money going away for your undergrad when your local university is just as competitive.
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While I agree with going to the institution that has the best specific program, I think I learned a heck of a lot by moving away to go to university. Some of the lessons were hard, but they were all valuable. I know many people who lived at home and went to school, and the majority regretted the decision.
Perhaps it is different in AB; I grew up in London, On, and off the top of my head I can come up with 8 universities within a 2 hour drive (Windsor, Western, Laurier, Waterloo, Guelph, York, UofT and my alma mater, McMaster), so perhaps that is a bit different than being a time zone away, although typically I would only go home once a semester and at Christmas.