Record number of high schoolers swapping the Ivy League for the SEC thanks to sunshine, campus culture - The Times

[Anonymous]

Can’t argue with the data they cite. Seems to boil down to fun and sunny weather. Ivy League losing its cachet. Ivy match kids increasingly prefer Vandy and Duke or a full merit scholarship at Alabama.

Why young Americans are shunning elite universities for the Deep South. Social life, sunshine and picturesque campuses are luring students from the northeast to colleges in South Carolina, Alabama and more.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/why-young-americans-are-shunning-elite-universities-for-the-deep-south-2ktn6fmv2

[Anonymous]

Social media influence.

[Anonymous]

So now USC means the University of South Carolina, not University of Southern California.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social media influence.

Part of the dumbing down of America. Education isn’t the focus. Just partying and enjoying themselves. I’m not sure why parents pay for the 4 year party but they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Social media influence.

Part of the dumbing down of America. Education isn’t the focus. Just partying and enjoying themselves. I’m not sure why parents pay for the 4 year party but they are.

Worse their DD are going to jail or possibly death.
Plus no jobs upon graduation is a great financial decision

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now USC means the University of South Carolina, not University of Southern California.

Colleges in southern California and Arizona are also benefitting from these sun belt trends.

[Anonymous]

When/what was the previous "record"?

[Anonymous]

LOL

so desperate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Social media influence.

Part of the dumbing down of America. Education isn’t the focus. Just partying and enjoying themselves. I’m not sure why parents pay for the 4 year party but they are.

Your stuffy Ivy (or Ivy wannabe) grad might end up working for a Bama grad who dominates him or her in what really matters: the elevator test. Roll Tide!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Social media influence.

I can only speak for myself but it’s stunning how clueless we were about the rest of the country in the 80s and 90s. Social media and YouTube has made kids hyper aware of these colleges and regions before a campus tour. To me as a dumb propagandized high schooler in the 80s, the south seemed a world away, backwater, full of dumb and slow hicks. To kids now, the south is booming and fun, students look happy and attractive, academic programs are world class, merit scholarships can be life changing, and you get sunny weather instead of the cold, snow and grey skies.

[Anonymous]

How many more of these headlines do we need? It seems like the same story keeps getting recycled over and over.

[Anonymous]

Do current hiring managers (genx -elder millenials) value southern schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Social media influence.

Part of the dumbing down of America. Education isn’t the focus. Just partying and enjoying themselves. I’m not sure why parents pay for the 4 year party but they are.

Worse their DD are going to jail or possibly death.
Plus no jobs upon graduation is a great financial decision

If local job market is such a concern, why do DC-MD-VA parents send their kids to Michigan, Wisconsin, Cornell and Dartmouth? None of their kids stick around those regions or entire states after college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many more of these headlines do we need? It seems like the same story keeps getting recycled over and over.

It’s application season and this trend is getting clicks. This random tweet has millions of impressions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many more of these headlines do we need? It seems like the same story keeps getting recycled over and over.

It’s not a new trend, this has been snowballing for 20 years. Hope Hicks was raised in Greenwich and went to SMU in Dallas in 2006. At our children’s private high school, we noticed popular overachiever girls and boys suddenly going to Ole Miss, Georgia and Auburn back in 2014-2018. Vanderbilt and Duke are the hot colleges for seniors in the very top of the class.