re: What is up with BR area rich kids going to school at U of Alabama?

I kid, i kid

I made a 26, class president, 3.7ish gpa and LSU still wouldn't waive my arse

I could have gone most anywhere I wanted but I only applied to LSU

I have buddies that went to OM and Bama but I never had any interest in doing all that

Granted how my first year at LSU went maybe I should have left BR, but thats another story...

Also the rich kids going to OM/Bama thing in my experience is pretty much dead on. Let's just say I don't know any poor people that did that.

LSU waives at a 27 too. I switched to LSU last minute & didn't have time to take the ACT again.

Let's just say my parents hate me

I had about the same coming out of HS. Got similar offers from a handful of other schools, and out-of-state waived at a good bit more. Bama was the best choice for me, but look around. Lot of state school will give great scholarships with those scores

If I had college age kids I wouldn't let them go there for anything. The drugs are unbelievable, it's a bad combo, kids with money to blow and good supply of drugs? I have never seen a school have such a drug problem among their Greeks. Trips to rehab and over doses are not the exception up there.

Well that's a very general statement. There are drugs at every college and some people do a lot, some people do a little, and some do none. I would agree there is more coke at Alabama than LSU, but I think there is a lot more coke in Athens and about the same in Oxford compared to Tuscaloosa.

Coke isnt what I'm referring to, actually it would be the least of my worries up there although there is a ton of it around. I'm referring to the pills and the drugs down that line. Plenty of good kids from good families getting in way over their head up there, more than LSU. Can't speak for other SEC schools, just what I have seen and experienced at these 2.

It must be weird for U-high kids going to LSU. They have been going to the same campus for years! And I was such a loser, I didn't know what tigerland was , tailgating, or anything till freshman year of college.

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Fact 1: Alabama is a somewhat better school than LSU academically

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I've worked at both institutions, and the difference here is negligible. Like in terms of teachers, students, curriculum. Some incredibly smart kids at both schools. Absolutely horrible administrations at both schools. At Bama the last year I was there the keyword was "consumer-oriented" institution, which was a ridiculous frame for student-teacher interactions.

Bama is the richer school though.

I absolutely wouldn't send my child to LSU or Bama without a full ride, and even then, I would seriously consider sending them elsewhere.

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my daughter got a 33 ACT and has a 4.0 GPA
alabama offered a 4-year full out of state tuition scholarship less than 2 weeks after she sent in her app

if she doesnt get a similar offer from her first choice

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whats her first choice? i hope its something much better than UA

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I had about the same coming out of HS. Got similar offers from a handful of other schools, and out-of-state waived at a good bit more. Bama was the best choice for me, but look around. Lot of state school will give great scholarships with those scores

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same scores as a 33 and a 4.0 and bama was the best choice? jeez