Students enrolled in SEC schools from the Northeast

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Anonymous wrote:Huge migration to SEC schools-see it everyday on college decals on Range Rovers, Mercedes and BMW’s . This trend will continue as others have mentioned warm weather, great sports, booming sunbelt cities, improved academics at a school half the costs of a northeast private. Will this impact the Ivies or top LAC’s no but most likely midsize privates ranked outside the top 25 charging 90-100 k a year for mediocre results.

This. I think this is a big new trend and it will just take certain people longer to realize that many of the NE schools are no longer desirable. Of COURSE you will still have tons apply, but it's more international full kids now anyway. The experience is different.

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I look at all those Alabama graduates laughing and clapping at that unhinged commencement speech last night and wonder what kind of education they've received. No full-tuition merit award would be worth sending my kid to MAGA camp for 4 years. Disgusting.

Will smart kids from the Northeast continue to "flock" to this hellscape?

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I know of only one student in my daughter’s class who went Deep South. He went to Mississippi but only lasted a year. Culture shock was too much.

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Anonymous wrote:It is not the bottom 50th percentile going to these schools. Not the top 15%, but certainly not the bottom 50% percent.

It’s not the students with options from better schools.

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I'm in Massachusetts and SO many kids are going to South Carolina, Auburn, Elon. It's baffling to me but the big rah rah southern schools are definitely in fashion. These are not kids with top stats so that's part of it, but I still wonder how much bang for the buck the degree gives them when many want to move back north in 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Massachusetts and SO many kids are going to South Carolina, Auburn, Elon. It's baffling to me but the big rah rah southern schools are definitely in fashion. These are not kids with top stats so that's part of it, but I still wonder how much bang for the buck the degree gives them when many want to move back north in 4 years.

Generally agree but Elon is much different than the other two. It is a small private and has been drawing a decent percentage from the northeast. It is far from an Ivy but for a kid who might have been considering Skidmore or something like that, it is a decent alternative.

Also, no guarantee these kids want to move back north - they might be happy staying down there. Though that depends somewhat on the political climate...

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Anonymous wrote:This chart is a little misleading because Alabama is mostly OOS, but they were like that before this percent change was captured. Same for South Carolina. This does validate that UTK has come on strong for those that don’t get in UF/UGA/SC.

OOS doesn't necessarily mean NE.

For Alabama it does. They have targeted NE suburbs for many years. Also, South Carolina has been called the University of New Jersey for a while.

They may have targeted the NE but majority of their OOS students still come from the south. Twice as many OOS students at Alabama come from TN and GA compared to NY and NJ. Heres a map if you’d like to see for yourself: https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/the-university-of-alabama/student-life/diversity/chart-geographic-diversity.html. South Carolina has more students from NJ but still not nearly as many from NJ as from the South, especially from NC. https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-south-carolina-columbia/student-life/diversity/chart-geographic-diversity.html

Your link doesn’t work. Also is this a reputable source?

I can’t get the link to work either but if you google demographics out of state + the university name you will find this data for yourself.

At Alabama, most out of state representation is Georgia, but next is Illinois. 60% OOS.

Yes, at Alabama the top out of state representation is from Georgia, then Illinois, florida, Texas, and Tennessee. None of which are in the NE.

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The nominal number of kids attending is still nearly nonexistent in the scheme of things.

LSU went from 100 to 558…but LSU has 32,665 undergrads.

So the %age is still only 1.7%.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of these mid Atlantic yuppie families are actually giving their kids good advice. Their parents career paths of going to a prestigious undergrad to get into a high end law school to join a firm that “provides legal services” to the federal government may not be stable going forward. Safer to go to a sec school, join a fraternity/sorority and marry a country club kid from a family that owns ford dealership chain and construction companies is much wiser. “We’ll come visit you in Hattiesburg twice a year!”

I echo this. Things are changing VERY rapidly and the old rules no longer apply. As the ivies become more and more international/questbridge/social justice, the actual wealthy are becoming less interested because the network is not the same as it was even ten years ago. Newer networks that are actually a bit more conservative (which is hush hush) are cropping up.

We all know that this just isn't true; but keep dreaming.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory best of both worlds. Northern school with a Southern address.

Read the headline. Subject is SEC schools.

Emory boosters are insecure that GA state schools are more fun.

No fun when you're unemployed

STFU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I look at all those Alabama graduates laughing and clapping at that unhinged commencement speech last night and wonder what kind of education they've received. No full-tuition merit award would be worth sending my kid to MAGA camp for 4 years. Disgusting.

Will smart kids from the Northeast continue to "flock" to this hellscape?

To be fair there was an active counter protest yesterday. Not everyone there is a a MAGA nut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm in Massachusetts and SO many kids are going to South Carolina, Auburn, Elon. It's baffling to me but the big rah rah southern schools are definitely in fashion. These are not kids with top stats so that's part of it, but I still wonder how much bang for the buck the degree gives them when many want to move back north in 4 years.

I'm in CA in the bay area. You get a TCU, SMU, Auburn kid every now and then but in general nobody except low stats kids ever go to Souothern schools and it is rare for them as well. Just not attractive to people out here.

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Wow the liberals are mad always insulting people with different political viewpoints. The trend in wealthy suburbs across the country to the SEC is only magnifying. Amazed at how many are going south! Qualify by not seeing Bama, Auburn, or UFlorida decals on Teslas. Most families are independents or Republicans not lefties

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Anonymous wrote:I found this chart and article pretty interesting. I also wonder if Vandy is just accepting more from other areas.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/college-south-sec-northeast-students

Change in new students enrolled in SEC schools from the Northeast, 2014 to 2023

A bar chart that illustrates the change in enrollment from Northeast students at SEC schools from 2014 to 2023. LSU leads with a 486% increase, followed by Tennessee at 378.7%. Notably, Missouri shows a significant decline of 62.9%, while Vanderbilt's change is nearly flat at -0.3%.

LSU
+486.0%

Tennessee
+378.7

Ole Miss
+230.1

Florida
+106.3

Georgia
+106.1

Texas
+102.5

Auburn
+94.0

South Carolina
+89.8

Kentucky
+63.9

Texas A&M
+59.6

Mississippi State
+38.5

Alabama
+31.2

Vanderbilt
-0.3

Arkansas
-6.7

Oklahoma
-16.9

Missouri
-62.9

Not sure about other schools but Florida has significantly increased OOS acceptance rates at the expense of IS students. It’s insanely challenging to get in as an IS student now.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow the liberals are mad always insulting people with different political viewpoints. The trend in wealthy suburbs across the country to the SEC is only magnifying. Amazed at how many are going south! Qualify by not seeing Bama, Auburn, or UFlorida decals on Teslas. Most families are independents or Republicans not lefties

Wrong, don’t make this political. There are liberals in the SEC and conservatives at elite privates.

-SEC booster