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re: What is up with BR area rich kids going to school at U of Alabama?
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:56 am to lsuhunt555
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:56 am to lsuhunt555
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Baton Rouge fricking blows.
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Theyre both a shithole
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Have you been to Tuscaloosa recently? City sucks dick
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bullshite. What fricking culture? Pinky out pretentious wanna bees? That's not a culture.
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Gainesville sucks arse.
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No worse than Tuscaloosa.
all these threads converge onto this central theme on the OT: everything sucks. everywhere sucks. what you think is ok, i think sucks. no place has any culture. nowhere is ever good enough.
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Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:56 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Fayetteville is more of an all-encompassing "college town" than Tuscaloosa.
NW Arkansas isn't a college town. Sorry.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:57 am to TheCaterpillar
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If it weren't for LSU, Baton Rouge would be Lake Charles, LA.
FIFY
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:58 am to Golfer
Of that group, I'd rank them thusly (keep in mind that I've never been to Columbia MO, Starkville, Columbia SC, or College Station)
1. Nashville
2. Athens
3. Oxford
4. Columbia, SC
5. Baton Rouge
6. Knoxville (they're probably too high, but I really liked this town for some reason)
7. Lexington
8. Auburn
9. Columbia, MO
10. Fayetteville (they may have gotten a much better ranking had I not visited during thanksgiving)
11. Tuscaloosa
12. Gainesville
13. College Station
14. Starkville
1. Nashville
2. Athens
3. Oxford
4. Columbia, SC
5. Baton Rouge
6. Knoxville (they're probably too high, but I really liked this town for some reason)
7. Lexington
8. Auburn
9. Columbia, MO
10. Fayetteville (they may have gotten a much better ranking had I not visited during thanksgiving)
11. Tuscaloosa
12. Gainesville
13. College Station
14. Starkville
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:58 am to kingbob
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This. Baton Rouge only really has 4 things going for it:
Baton Rouge people are infinitely cooler/friendlier/more fun than Ole Miss preppy types. Living in Ms. for three years almost killed me because of all the redneck pretension to Southern Royalty. I went to boarding school with all the Ole Miss types and they were so over the top, even worse than the Uptown Tulane people. South Louisiana has a unique fun culture that is completely separate from anything else in the South. I really missed South Louisiana people when I moved away for a decade. Not so much the place as the people. Louisiana is flat and swampy and not much to look at imho.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:59 am to Y.A. Tittle
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A majority of students are from out of state,
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Link?
LINK
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When the University of Alabama class of 2012 first arrived on campus in the fall of 2008, 63 percent of its members were from the state of Alabama. Most of the members of the class of 2015, which arrived on campus last fall, are not.
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Slightly more than 50 percent of the students who walked on campus as freshman at the beginning of the academic year were from other states or foreign countries. The increasingly large percentage of out-of-state students attending Alabama has set the University apart from other Southeastern Conference schools.
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For the admissions office, more applications mean more selectivity. Six years ago, 64% of students applying to the University of Alabama were accepted. By 2012, the acceptance rate had dropped to 53%. About one in four students from the 2012 freshman class carried a 4.0 high school GPA. The class also includes 241 National Merit Scholars, more than any other public university in the U.S.
Alabama is absolutely going HAM at getting more nationally respected academically, getting good academic talent nationwide, and getting to be a regional university instead of a 'state' school.
Alabama is increasingly a great academic school in a great town. Tuscaloosa is a good town, especially for students.
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 10:05 am
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:59 am to STEVED00
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If it was Texas, UGA, or UVA then i would understand.
Those are 3 really hard schools to get into from OOS. And for most people the order of preference would be:
1. Go somewhere different and a great school (UT, UGA, UVA etc.)
2. At least go somewhere different (Bama, OM)
3. Stay Home as a last resort.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:59 am to Golfer
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NW Arkansas isn't a college town. Sorry.
You been to Fayetteville?
I really found it much more college-towny than I've ever found Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:59 am to TreyAnastasio
The simple fact that FSU is like 60-70% females automatically means FSU >>>>> Bama, OM, LSU
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:00 am to Y.A. Tittle
Yes. And Fayetteville itself is a "college town" but NWA is over 500,000 people and growing.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:00 am to lsuhunt555
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The simple fact that FSU is like 60-70% females automatically means FSU
Trash is still trash even in great numbers
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:00 am to tween the hedges
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ETA: Nothing pisses me off more than people who went to Bama or Auburn because Georgia denied them and then they won't shut the frick up about how much better their football team is.
Kind of like UGA fans who went to Georgia Perimeter, or went to UGA before the late 90s talking about how awesome UGA is academically.
In metro Atlanta, I think most AU kids go to AU because they like AU. Some are just UGA rejects (and some would be), although I think Bama gets more students via that route.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:01 am to Paul Allen
well thats more because of UT raising admission standards
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:01 am to DadFanAlum
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. LSU will continue to lose some LA students, but also continue to attract some from other states that wouldn't have even considered LSU a few years ago.
kinda reflects on football recruiting as well with us losing some in state recruits but still getting studs from Texas and other states....
when i started as a frosh at lsu 2000, i feel like i was at the tail end of the whole LSU being for in state peeps only, by the time i graduated in 2005 it seemed like the university was beginning to change alot, i think that change is definitely for the better
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:04 am to CrippleCreek
Alabama football helps a lot, obviously. When I graduated, within 5 years of UT winning a title, you had Atlanta kids going there and Florida and anywhere else that seemed fun and different.
You don't hear about many kids going to UTK now unless they have it in their family. It all shifts, Alabama is probably the hottest regional school for both increasing prominence and football, but that'll be cyclical. If LSU could move toward being a middle of the pack academic school, they'd get some of that. LSU has a good brand.
You don't hear about many kids going to UTK now unless they have it in their family. It all shifts, Alabama is probably the hottest regional school for both increasing prominence and football, but that'll be cyclical. If LSU could move toward being a middle of the pack academic school, they'd get some of that. LSU has a good brand.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:04 am to TreyAnastasio
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Trash is still trash even in great numbers
Same could be said about Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge and Oxford....
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:04 am to TreyAnastasio
One thing I like about Tuscaloosa compared to Baton Rouge is how the college bars are smaller (JL's is an exception.) I hate going out in baton rouge and being surrounded by a bunch of douchebags in flatbills dancing to rap. Much more live music and smaller bars with not as much trash in ttown. And if you don't think thats true, you've never been to Tuscaloosa for anything besides a football game.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:05 am to kingbob
I haven't been to half of these cities, but no way Columbia SC is fourth. 
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:05 am to Big Wooly Mammoth
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you've never been to Tuscaloosa for anything besides a football game.
A LOT of people have only been for a football game and then think they 'know' Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 10:07 am to Ignignot
exactly, lots of kids don't like going to college near their parents. I kinda wanted to get away from my friends and family, but my father refused to pay for tuition out of state or for Tulane. That left me with LSU, Tech, or ULL as my only options so I went with LSU because I wanted to do Tiger Band. Kids who don't have that constraint look elsewhere to assert their independence. When I was in high school, that was UT, Tulane, Ole Miss, ect. Now, Alabama is hot due to their recent football success and the huge upgrades they've made to their campus. Having a massive 100,000 seat stadium and winning national championships with consistency is a huge selling point to teenagers. Having giant greek houses that promise endless libations, inebriation, and fraternization with the opposite sex is a great selling point as well. BR kids wanting to go to Alabama is a fad, but there will always be kids wanting to get away from their parents and go out of state. Those with means, will.
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