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The share of California high school graduates heading out of state for college has nearly doubled in two decades.

Arizona, Oregon and New York are the top destinations.

Javier Perez, a senior at Benjamin Franklin Senior High School in Highland Park, dreams of studying computer science at Dartmouth College.

“For me, it’s really important to be surrounded by the right people,” said Perez, who earlier this year spent two days on the New Hampshire campus during a spring college tour and said he felt a “genuine connection” with the people he met. Plus, he likes cold weather.

He’s hardly alone. A Public Policy Institute of California report released this month found that the share

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