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Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?
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Anonymous
There is a lot of self filtering there. I’ll bet if you break out the math from language SAT scores you can infer the bias at ER. No one goes to ER to coast in a rocks for jocks class. |
Anonymous
Exactly. They look white b |
Anonymous
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Let’s see what could it be that is causing an increase in interest for souther schools. Perhaps they are improving academically and offering a better value for the educational dollar. Less chance of having school held hostage by ongoing protests. Better sports and weather. It could be all of the above. Also they would be graduating into an area with an expanding economy from a school known to local employers.
Sure some will be turned off by state politics but on balance interest for all the reasons above will bring an increase in applications. |
Anonymous
A very mediocre list of schools! |
Anonymous
Not for long. |
Anonymous
No one goes to Clemson over University of Florida. Not at all same tier. |
Anonymous
Probably a Clemson booster. UF and UGA are on par with UVA and UNC. Clemson is a step down. |
Anonymous
| The reason my DC applied to these schools is because they felt like schools they could actually get into with a 4.3GPA and a 33 ACT. Our instate schools (UVA, WM, VT) are so hard to get into from NOVA. Another plus is that normal high school ECs (sports, club, student government, volunteering) are plenty for admission to SEC schools. No need for summer research, passion projects, etc. |
Anonymous
| It's tougher to get into the Northern schools right now, because lots of students want to go to them. |
Anonymous
I also appreciate that the admissions process at places like the SEC schools is so much more transparent and straightforward. They make their institutional priorities clear, I.e. aiming for a student body that’s a certain percentage in-state. |
Anonymous
No, they aren’t. Hard to get over bias, but these schools are legitimately rising. They are as a whole well run institutions with a lot of money, pay their professors well and are attracting world-class researchers. |
Anonymous
Tulane has always been Jew-lane, Emory too, but the other southern schools (SEC) are seeing increases in Jewish kids. They don’t have to deal with the anti-Semitic hassle down there. |
Anonymous
Looks like the campus protests last year did have an effect: Between the lines: Politics are also a rising factor in some students' decision. Colleges in Republican-led states returned to in-person classes sooner than colleges in Democratic-led states after the onset of COVID. High school students who sat through virtual classes during the pandemic may have been inclined to flock south for a more authentic college experience. "Students who were looking at colleges saw more freedom and fun in the South than they saw up North," Selingo said. Zoom in: More recently, elite colleges in the Northeast and California were the main sites of pro-Palestinian protests that sparked clashes between demonstrators and school administrations. "Students have said to me, 'I don't want to go to a college where everybody's angry at each other and everybody's fighting over everything,'" said Maria Laskaris, a counselor at Top Tier Admissions, a higher education consulting firm. "It's not that they don't want to be challenged. They're looking for a good education, an active and generally happy student body." Politically moderate or conservative students could feel that they'd better fit in at schools in Republican-leaning states, Selingo said, as slightly more young people identify with conservatives. |
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Anonymous
Alabama was just off that screen shot at #12 at +31.2%. |