Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

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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.

All schools have moved on from COVID. The South isn't special, outside of the insidious objectification of women, which is a different kind of special.

Au contraire. Mandates are still going strong at Northeast schools. Hundreds require a booster if the student hasn't had one yet and several even require the new booster for kids who already had the old one. Some families have HAD IT with the total lack of ethics, whether they say so publicly or not.

(Let's see if this post gets censored; it is common for DCUM to remove replies like mine.)

THIS. The reason we're focusing on schools in the south is mainly because of the mandates. We know one too many families who have been affected by vx injuries. It makes no sense to mandate at this point.

95 percent of the current covid cases and corresponding deaths are among the un/under-vaccinated.

But science...

Exactly, unvaccinated college students are dropping like flies from covid. (/sarc)

You can say the same for many other vaccines. How many others have you refused?

You missed the point, responding to the PP claimingmist deatha are in unvaccinated. Most young adults are not at significant risk of severe disease, from the covid od the past or the omicrom of the present. Unvaccinated college students are not dying from omicron.

As for cases, the new booster does not provide significant and durable protection from infection (see NYT article cited above). Heck, even CDC Dir and FDA Commissioner got a case of covid within a few weeks of their new boosters.

Seroprevalence is very high. There is no data proving benefit of the new booster against subsequent infection for college students. No basis for mandate.

OP asked why people may be interested in southern schools. You may not agree with the reasoning as you are not up to date on the latest science, but this is indeed one reason among others that people choose southern schools.

And a great reason to avoid them. I don’t want my kids building a social network with kids from nut job families.

Here, this list will show you which to attend and which to avoid

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11BrDadiUGN-vQBe7Jolcb_-aWhLT7S2AkWOkSX49M40/edit#gid=1883815625

U Chicago, a DCUM favorite, has no vaccine mandates. Neither do GMU, JMU, Mary Washington, Tech and UVA.

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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.

Not Asian but agree. We are in NoVa and VA schools are as Southern as our DC would probably go.

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I went South for school back in the mid-80s. Best thing I ever did! Went back up North to New England for grad school, but those 4 years down south for school were the best! I wouldn’t want to live there forever but I liked experiencing something new and the weather was so much better, I was less depressed living there!

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Wait. I thought everyone decided not to apply to southern schools because of southern states’ Covid and abortion laws?

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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.

This appears to be true.....

TCU 2008 in-state 79% vs 2021 in-state 54%
TCU 2008 Asians 2% vs 2021 Asians 3%

SMU 65% vs 45% in-state
SMU 6% vs 7% Asians

% overall OOS going up, but Asians not changing much at all.

They're not avoiding those Southern schools because they're Southern, but because they suck.

Emory: 21.3% Asian
Vanderbilt: 18.8% Asian

If north east t20s went race blind, those numbers would drop off a cliff for vandy and Emory.

Very very very few Asians who attend Emory and vandy would go if they could get into Columbia or penn

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Anonymous wrote:And on the academics part, the southern schools really do struggle to hire great faculty. They don't pay at the top of the market and don't prioritize building great research institutions. AThis isn't a problem for most students, because kids just want jobs and are generally insensitive to academic quality, but it's something you should really keep in mind if your kid wants to do a PhD.

LOL. What decade are you living in?

The University of Texas built one of the best biochemistry labs in the world, luring Professor Jason McLellan to move his his entire lab from Dartmouth. They modeled the Covid spike protein that was the key to the development of the Covid vaccine and are currently close to development of the first RSV vaccine. There’s lots more oil money where that came from.

https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2021/03/how-ut-research-led-to-the-development-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-record-breaking-time/

It was clear that to stay relevant in structural biology, you had to be able to do electron microscopy and have access to one of these state-of-the art facilities,” McLellan says, “and UT Austin had one that was brand new.”  

And so, on a snowy day in January 2018, McLellan moved his family and nearly every member of his lab south to Austin. Wrapp was among the graduate students who had followed McLellan from Dartmouth to UT, a decision he says was an easy one.

“I applied to Dartmouth specifically because I hoped I would be able to join Jason’s lab,” Wrapp says. “So, when he told us he had made the decision to come to UT, it was a no-brainer for me to come along.” 

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. I thought everyone decided not to apply to southern schools because of southern states’ Covid and abortion laws?

Only in liberal DCUM's fever dreams. Not in real life.

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Anonymous wrote:Trigger bans are already in place in many red states.

If you have not read them before sending your kid to a college in one of those states you are a sucky parent.

Little susie is going to have sex Little Johnny is going to have sex. ZERO contraception will be available.

Little susie has a health emergency related to any female issues DEAD!

I Know DCUM doesn't agree. Good luck with that you will be horrified in about 9 months.

Why would contraception not be available?? Plus, why the assumption that kids will be having sex in the first place? Not everyone does?

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The PP is a known troll who always claims that there will be ZERO contraception, women's jobs will disappear, and women will be required to be barefoot and pregnant. In short, she is a total nutjob.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

You're simply amazing. How do you live with your vain self?!

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It is ALL about the money, people. You must not realize how much cheaper it is to go there. They literally are saving families close to $100K over 4 years because of their merit awards and some people are willing to take them up on those offers. That crazy university president who remade the school also turned their physical plant into the sort of place that people who prefer new construction in a subdivision where you have to drive everywhere to a Kalorama Circe townhouse. Personally, I don't buy things on sale that I wouldn't be willing to pay full price for. But I was lucky and able to save enough for the college costs of my offspring, so we weren't in a situation where those dollars could convince me to send a DC there.

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Sending your kid there is 100% a white privilege action. Latinx, Asian, and Black kids can't do that without risking harm. Some Jewish kids are willing to take the risk. I can't read the article but did it mention anything about the disproportionate share of Whites from the NE?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. I thought everyone decided not to apply to southern schools because of southern states’ Covid and abortion laws?

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+1. lol

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a list of schools with and without mandates, organized by state. Compare states. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11BrDadiUGN-vQBe7Jolcb_-aWhLT7S2AkWOkSX49M40/edit#gid=1883815625

Here’s your answer

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I doubt this is really true for half of people choosing colleges. Many young women are refusing to go to unis in states with abortion bans. Most of them are in the south.

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

They go to Tulane