re: Odd family story - young female cousin’s college choice

MSU appeals strongly to a certain type of person, I think. Very quiet, well-ordered campus, almost like a little slice of the former East Germany or something.

I can appreciate that place, but 4+ years there sounds pretty stifling.

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My terminal degree(STEM) is from Tulane. Obviously better than LSU on every metric. I'd have been better off going to LSU. It's all about what connections the school has to industry. Tulane students are generally old school northeast money. If your not one of them Tulane degree really means shite.

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I was listening to Marc Maron's interview with Peter Berg and he was telling him how he was a terrible student in high school and how he didn't get into his backup school (Might have said the backup to his backup school)which he said was Tulane but he didn't get accepted. I knew a lot of students were from the northeast but it still sounded random to hear that as his fallback school.

It’s not like she’s turning down Yale to go to SUNY something or another

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usin’s college choice
I've gotta know, are Bama Bangs similar to the New Iberia haircut?

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Mett is one of the first Google images I get.

All this can be explained by....

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Book Smart girl, no common sense,

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I went to State from growing up in Alabama. I then went to LSU for grad school. Like another poster said - State is very appealing for certain types of students, but parents really love it.

I didn't think two seconds about MSU until December of my senior year in high school. I was deciding between Auburn and UAB. MSU came in and offered me a shite load of scholarship money and I visited. I liked it, but my parents LOVED it.

My niece did the same thing. State offered her a ton of scholarship money out of the blue seemingly. They are recruiting Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile and Houston like they were Jackson. Its a strategy that has worked. Lots of suburban Birmingham kids at State. MSU has a recruiting office in Mountain Brook. Ole Miss does the same thing with Dallas and Atlanta.

State has a non-resident scholarship matrix that is very attractive. MSU is already the lowest priced SEC school. Then you go into a kid from Birmingham with a 28 ACT and you can waive most of the out of state fees, and all of a sudden MSU is cheaper that Bama or Auburn.

A 28 ACT is a $56,000 scholarship to MSU. Its $28,000 at Alabama.

State's business school (especially for accounting) isn't bad and the new building is really impressive.

I’m not gonna argue with her descriptions of the other schools on her list

But I would post to the sec rant just to confirm

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Moo State

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Starkvegas has been pretty fun every time I've visited. Would go there over Old Piss, Springhill, and USA for sure.

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No big deal. It’s not like she got into Harvard

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Yeah this isn't that weird. People pick schools poorly all the time. I've seen plenty of top performing kids go to small private schools with little academic prestige.

They weren’t exaggerating.

Tulane is basically the 3rd or 4th option for people in the northeast who can’t get into high end schools but are still willing to pay those prices to go somewhere.

That inflates the tuition cost, which is why the main students from the south going there are on scholarship because the school isn’t worth what they charge for normal tuition.