Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

FWIW most people in the college admissions field don’t consider UVA a “southern school”. There are mainly thoughtful discussions about this on College Confidential. First, it’s considered a Mid-Atlantic School not Southern (which is why no one has picked up on your thread). Second, the students do not come from the south. The bulk of the Virginia residents are from the excellent schools in Nova, then Norfolk, but very few geographical gromthe southern part of the Commonwealth. Then come relatively (to other top Publics) high number of OOS and the international students. It’s a very cosmopolitan environment. Third, if you want to say “well, it’s below the Mason-Dixon Line, the you would have to call Georgetown, UMD, John’s Hopkins, etc. “southern schools”, which no one does. They are classified as Mid-Atlantic schools

Wow. Have they ever visited UVA? It’s very southern.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Southern universities have moved on from covid. It’s not surprising that someone who is 18 wants to spend $60k a year on a school where you’re allowed to attend parties, don’t have to take frequent nasal swabs, and aren’t required to take repeated boosters for covid. Not to mention better weather, fun sporting events and prettier women.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Less girls will probably now want to live in states where they are denied their right to an abortion so this trend might reverse.

Fewer, FEWER!

Reminds me of the old joke about Hofstra University co-eds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

FWIW most people in the college admissions field don’t consider UVA a “southern school”. There are mainly thoughtful discussions about this on College Confidential. First, it’s considered a Mid-Atlantic School not Southern (which is why no one has picked up on your thread). Second, the students do not come from the south. The bulk of the Virginia residents are from the excellent schools in Nova, then Norfolk, but very few geographical gromthe southern part of the Commonwealth. Then come relatively (to other top Publics) high number of OOS and the international students. It’s a very cosmopolitan environment. Third, if you want to say “well, it’s below the Mason-Dixon Line, the you would have to call Georgetown, UMD, John’s Hopkins, etc. “southern schools”, which no one does. They are classified as Mid-Atlantic schools

No. Kids from NoVa counties make up less than a third of in-state students. (At least that was the case with the class of 2020. I can’t imagine it’s changed all that much since then.) The remaining two-thirds are very much from the southern part of the state, which includes Norfolk (although I think you probably meant to say Va. Beach). And don’t forget Richmond. None of this makes it any less cosmopolitan. Just get your facts straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many northern states even have large traditional universities? NJ and NY certainly don’t

Rutgers University in New Brunswick has about 35,000 undergraduate students enrolled.

Syracuse University has about 15,000 undergrad students.

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Because cold weather sucks

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Anonymous wrote:Are northern Jewish kids going to southern oos publics?

Tons of Jews in North Carolina

I'm sure this is true somewhere, it's a big state, but it's hilarious to me. I lived there my whole life until college and met three.

I lived there my whole life even through college and met none until I moved away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many northern states even have large traditional universities? NJ and NY certainly don’t

Rutgers University in New Brunswick has about 35,000 undergraduate students enrolled.

Syracuse University has about 15,000 undergrad students.

56 percent are commuting students. It’s a different atmosphere.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, many students do not want to spend their social time at small, cold weather, isolated/rural schools drinking beer in a crowded stuffy fraternity basement.

I know someone whose kid transferred from Williams to UGA for pretty much that reason.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not that complicated:

Pros:

- The weather is warmer
- Schools are cheaper
- Easier to get in

Cons:

- Academics aren't good (This doesnt matter for jobs but will prevent students from getting into good PhD programs)iCal

YMMV:

- Conservative politics (not a problem for many, would be for others, including me)

Ifyou don't care about academics that much and are fine with conservative politics & hot weather, these schools are a no-brainer.

Actually grad schools also like geographical diversity in their class, top schools will accept high performing students from any school.

I'm in grad school and I promise you that a good student from Alabama will not be viewed the same a top student from Wisconsin. For professional schools and masters it won't matter, but for real grad school it is a big deal.

Your post is nonsense. Good Alabama vs top Wisc? That is apples and oranges. Top Alabama will be viewed same as top anywhere. Good Alabama is same as good Wisc. Don't fool yourself/

I'm sorry but it just isn't. Wisconsin students can work in better labs and have more rigorous math instruction etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Many kids are being pushed out of their home states - too many applicants willing to prep prep prep… they want a more traditional American experience

This is white flight on a national level. Just admit it. No need to use the word 'traditional" when we all know you mean white.

I don’t think that’s a good analogy. The white kids are more like a poor community being priced out of a gentrifying neighborhood.

White kids literally can’t get into the northern schools any more. And the position of the Asian American community on here seems to be that that is right and good, that higher stats Asian American students have a constitutional right to those seats.

So it’s more than a little rich to cry “racism” when the exact same kids you worked so hard to keep out of elite northern schools go to school somewhere else. What did you expect them to do?

I think this is a bit off. Most southern schools have added diversity inn decent numbers. Also its not poor whites going but rich kids. Abortion is not playing a role as those kids could just come home or go somewhere else. Numbers so far this year show increase in applications to those states.

Pp isn’t saying the white kids in question are poor but rather gentile whites of average/above average academics are being “gentrified out” of their home state institutions by those with more “education capital” (Asians) —

Analogous to how poor people get gentrified out of their home neighborhoods due to lack of competing financial capital

Whites to Asians in academics is like blacks to whites in neighborhood gentrification

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easier to get in. More sports. Hotter kids.

because it's easier. Generally, good looking people rely on their looks a lot more than their brains. Not so good looking people have to rely on their smarts more.

Southern schools have hotter and fatter kids at the same time

Nescacs have less IG models but also less zaftig.

In fact I don’t think you are allowed to attend a nescac if your bmi is high

[Anonymous]

I know many more northerners who have now sworn off red states, due to their turn into crazy conservative territory (ie, no abortions, no acknowledgement that slavery might have been a bad thing, no acknowledgement that some children are gay or transgender and their families have rights too, book banning, etc).

Are there teens who want to head to the part of the country that pretended COVID was not a thing. Probably, since magical thinking is not unusual in the immature. But your headline misrepresents the people I know by a mile.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easier to get in. More sports. Hotter kids.

because it's easier. Generally, good looking people rely on their looks a lot more than their brains. Not so good looking people have to rely on their smarts more.

Southern schools have hotter and fatter kids at the same time

Nescacs have less IG models but also less zaftig.

In fact I don’t think you are allowed to attend a nescac if your bmi is high

Are the females hotter or do they waste more time on their hair and make up?

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Anonymous wrote:Because they want to escape the woke indoctrination of many of the captured schools in the Northeast.

When I hear people use “woke” this way, they sound brainwashed to me.

And stupid.

Brainwashed and stupid people think those who resist brainwashing are brainwashed, stupid.