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

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages on tabloid fake news. nice

The surest way to ensure clicks and views is to write articles that make white people feel better about their choices -

Murdoch knows what racists like.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents who comment about attractiveness of students at warm weather schools may be referring to happiness & fitness due to active outdoor lifestyle found at these schools.

This. Don’t make something a problem that isn’t. SEC kids simply take care of themselves and take pride in their appearance. They’re happy and outgoing, all American kids. Again, something that was once the status quo at “top” colleges before they got taken over by dorks.

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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.

What is with parents talking about the attractiveness of students?

World class academics? Really. Trump won with students at Alabama. Proof enough it’s not the place for serious students.

Gross x2

Plenty of writers used to write about how everyone at Yale and Stanford were attractive overachievers; from Fitzgerald a hundred years ago to Ann Coulter and David Brooks 20 years ago.

People instinctively appreciate beauty. People instinctively appreciate happy and confident young adults. There’s a certain energy to these booming southern campuses. Night and day from the gloomy, [/b]foreigner-filled [b]campuses in the north and northeast.

I think like this trigger you ruthless striver parents. Y’all know no amount of scamming and helicopter parenting can get your kid into a top tier sorority or fraternity in the south.

Like I said, gross.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages on tabloid fake news. nice

The surest way to ensure clicks and views is to write articles that make white people feel better about their choices -

Murdoch knows what racists like.

Imagine being so unintelligent that you can’t form an argument without just calling someone a racist. YOU are why Trump is president.

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Anonymous wrote:The tours were took in the spring of a few T20s it seemed like Caucasian American kids were a small minority of the overall student body. Indian and Asian were the clear majority, then Jewish, Hispanic, Arabic, and Black American and Nigerian kids. It felt like a UN summit.

Are you saying that’s..a bad thing?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9 pages on tabloid fake news. nice

The surest way to ensure clicks and views is to write articles that make white people feel better about their choices -

Murdoch knows what racists like.

Imagine being so unintelligent that you can’t form an argument without just calling someone a racist. YOU are why Trump is president.

Trump is POTUS because racists don’t like to be called out for being racist?

Lol

“There are too many brown people at T20s, but don’t you dare call me racist.”

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What started out as a regionalism issue (The World vs. the SEC) has gradually devolved into a racial one. Please don't let that happen. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:The parents who comment about attractiveness of students at warm weather schools may be referring to happiness & fitness due to active outdoor lifestyle found at these schools.

This. Don’t make something a problem that isn’t. SEC kids simply take care of themselves and take pride in their appearance. They’re happy and outgoing, all American kids. Again, something that was once the status quo at “top” colleges before they got taken over by dorks.

Good for you genius. You figured out you don't belong in some top "dork" college. Enjoy the SEC.

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Anonymous wrote:Completely ridiculous headline. The article did not cite one single instance of a student choosing an SEC school over an Ivy either anecdotally or based on data. No one is choosing South Carolina, Ole Miss, Tennessee or Alabama over an Ivy. Sometimes (rarely) UT Austin, Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech will get those students, but even that is rare due to the generous aid packages Ivies can offer to relatively high income families. Southern schools have become more popular, sure, and are taking students away from the mid-tier privates and some state schools, but they are not displacing the Ivy+ or top flagships.

Click bait for MAGAs is never based on facts.

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I also hear people say that there are too many immigrants or children of immigrants at Ivy league schools from alot of parents and kids, i hear it from Black and White families to be honest.

The Ivy league testing is a bad way to judge who gets in, in my opinion it should be 50% weighted and 25% leadership, and 25% Extravehicular,

Let's be honest the immigrants who are 35% of the ivy league are great at taking test, but are horrible at applying those skills as leaders in industry

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Anonymous wrote:The tours were took in the spring of a few T20s it seemed like Caucasian American kids were a small minority of the overall student body. Indian and Asian were the clear majority, then Jewish, Hispanic, Arabic, and Black American and Nigerian kids. It felt like a UN summit.

This x1000. It was shocking. I get why people are outraged. It is 100% manufactured ratios and keeping out smart, UMC, high achieving kids SOLEY because they are white. They want that DEI. Best thing Trump has ever done is force these schools to scrap their ridiculous DEI efforts. And I am a liberal democrat! DEI just reached the point of absurdity.

My high achieving UMC white kid was accepted at multiple top 15 schools in 2023 (so before the Supreme Court ruling), as were several of his white friends.

No truly high achieving kids of any race are getting kept out of anywhere.

BTW, my kid’s Ivy campus is like 40% white…I find it interesting that someone differentiates Jewish kids who are also Caucasian American white as though they are Amish or some strange sect.

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Anonymous wrote:I also hear people say that there are too many immigrants or children of immigrants at Ivy league schools from alot of parents and kids, i hear it from Black and White families to be honest.

The Ivy league testing is a bad way to judge who gets in, in my opinion it should be 50% weighted and 25% leadership, and 25% Extravehicular,

Let's be honest the immigrants who are 35% of the ivy league are great at taking test, but are horrible at applying those skills as leaders in industry

Agreed. No one should be judged by the car they drive.

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Anonymous wrote:I also hear people say that there are too many immigrants or children of immigrants at Ivy league schools from alot of parents and kids, i hear it from Black and White families to be honest.

The Ivy league testing is a bad way to judge who gets in, in my opinion it should be 50% weighted and 25% leadership, and 25% Extravehicular,

Let's be honest the immigrants who are 35% of the ivy league are great at taking test, but are horrible at applying those skills as leaders in industry

Ok, racist

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Anonymous wrote:I also hear people say that there are too many immigrants or children of immigrants at Ivy league schools from alot of parents and kids, i hear it from Black and White families to be honest.

The Ivy league testing is a bad way to judge who gets in, in my opinion it should be 50% weighted and 25% leadership, and 25% Extravehicular,

Let's be honest the immigrants who are 35% of the ivy league are great at taking test, but are horrible at applying those skills as leaders in industry

The leaders of Google, Nvidia, Meta’s Super Intelligence group (who sold his company to Meta for $15BN) and countless other companies would disagree.

Folks…you can’t both claim SEC schools are incredible, but then ignore that the most transformative companies in existence are founded, run and filled with grads of the top schools for the most part.

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Are the children of immigrants not “all-American”? They can excel in “American” things (other than standardized testing). UCLA’s and Rutgers’ football place kickers are both children/grandchildren of immigrants, to give just two examples.