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re: Everyone Wants to Go to College in the South Now
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:44 am to LSUDVM1999
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:44 am to LSUDVM1999
Hate to admit it, but Bama was the catalyst. Couple of titles, on TV all the time and it looks fun. Well not everybody can or wants to go to Bama but they get to looking at other schools.
As for Tulane and Jewish/Northern students, it's been that way for decades. The joke is it's for kids from Jersey who couldn't get in to Duke.
As for Tulane and Jewish/Northern students, it's been that way for decades. The joke is it's for kids from Jersey who couldn't get in to Duke.
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Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:45 am to Ten Bears
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While I agree, applications at Northern universities are up as well. It's just, on average, more difficult to get into a northern school.
This is the issue. It’s simply a numbers game. If a kid from the Midwest can get into Michigan, they are going to Michigan. I run into people all the time that went to Cornell in the 80s and 90s. It’s next to impossible to get in now.
These kids are choosing between SEC schools and small yankee D3 schools, they are not passing up traditional name brand northern schools for SEC schools.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:49 am to LSUDVM1999
They all want to go to John Melvin University
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:50 am to LSUDVM1999
And who would have thought, the obnoxious liberal protestors and cancel culture folks are awful and miserable to be around.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:50 am to pjab
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These kids are choosing between SEC schools and small yankee D3 schools, they are not passing up traditional name brand northern schools for SEC schools.
That and the tuition difference. Out of state at an SEC school is about $50K, whereas a small liberal arts school in the North is $80-85K. Over 4 years, that's serious money.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:54 am to LSUDVM1999
Ole Miss is growing every year .. they are contracting with apartments to house freshmen. Which pushes upper classmen out of housing.
Housing there is ridiculous cost wise and only getting worse.
Housing there is ridiculous cost wise and only getting worse.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 11:58 am to biglego
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They all want to go to John Melvin University
Honestly, as a high school athlete who wasn't good enough to even be a DIII walkon, I would have taken a look at a place like JMU. Hopefully my parents would have knocked some sense into me.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:00 pm to pjab
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This is the issue. It’s simply a numbers game. If a kid from the Midwest can get into Michigan, they are going to Michigan. I run into people all the time that went to Cornell in the 80s and 90s. It’s next to impossible to get in now.
Yes its a number game, but its not just that. Of course if you are good enough to get into an Ivy or other top 25 school and your family can afford it you are probably going there regardless of location, and most of those schools are in the eastern U.S.
But there are a lot of good students who are bypassing strong state and name brand northern schools for southern universities due to the reasons mentioned in the article. It's not a lot, but a significant and growing number.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:08 pm to Ten Bears
It’s not about the money. An extra $30k/yr isn’t a concern.
Two summers ago I met an acquaintance for lunch in Philly. He’s a UPenn grad and still involved with the school. His son was home for summer from Bama. I was surprised to hear he was at an SEC school. He explained that he and many of his friends had great college applications but simply did not get accepted to their target schools due to the competition. His options were the SEC experience or northern schools not many people have heard of. It makes a lot of sense to me. Money was never brought up.
I’m out west. A friend’s kid goes to Auburn with no connection to the south whatsoever. A coworker in VA kid goes to UF. Both kids are loving their experience just like many of us did.
Two summers ago I met an acquaintance for lunch in Philly. He’s a UPenn grad and still involved with the school. His son was home for summer from Bama. I was surprised to hear he was at an SEC school. He explained that he and many of his friends had great college applications but simply did not get accepted to their target schools due to the competition. His options were the SEC experience or northern schools not many people have heard of. It makes a lot of sense to me. Money was never brought up.
I’m out west. A friend’s kid goes to Auburn with no connection to the south whatsoever. A coworker in VA kid goes to UF. Both kids are loving their experience just like many of us did.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:10 pm to NOLALGD
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But there are a lot of good students who are bypassing strong state and name brand northern schools for southern universities due to the reasons mentioned in the article. It's not a lot, but a significant and growing number.
How does this explain large increases in applications to Northern schools? Many schools in the North are receiving record numbers of applicants.
I'm not disputing the shift, I'm just saying the shift more a result of the difficulty to get into to the schools from the north. And when parents see their kids getting rejected from "second tier" Northern schools like Colgate, Haverford, Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell, etc it makes more sense to go South.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:11 pm to CocomoLSU
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That's fine as long as they leave their bullshite politics up north
They won't.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:17 pm to LSUDVM1999
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About two-thirds of college graduates go on to work in the same state where they graduate,
Not in Louisiana.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:20 pm to Swagga
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isn’t filled with pretentious assholes
Do you even Ole Miss bro?
Posted on 10/1/24 at 12:21 pm to LSUDVM1999
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