No, you're right, living on campus is required. Now they have their own dorms on the campus at 10th and Lincoln, so the bussing is a thing of the past.

Midtowner, each class is approx 70 students, sometimes a little less. So about 30 per year leave the state. How many of these kids would have left anyway? Probably the vast majority of them. So, given those pretty fair assumptions....what's the difference? Some of those kids come back, but not many.

Moreover, some of these kids would not have had the resources to even come close to realizing their potential if they stayed in their small towns. They would have been there, had math through trig, then not have had a shot into attending top-notch schools. OSSM provides the opportunity for some of these Oklahoma students to be competitive where they otherwise would not be.