Why are ivies and other elite NE schools out, southern schools in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought all of the politics of the south made it toxic, yet all of my cousins in the DMV had absolutely zero desire to shoot for ivies or any of the other elite schools in the NE. They became enamored with the lifestyle on the campuses of southern schools by watching social media vids of girls getting ready to go to to tailgates at Alabama or UGA. Other types of of events and parties on the campuses of southern schools also had tons of social media coverage. The students themselves post the videos, so all of the southern schools get tons of free marketing. I heard this was also a big trend with all of the friends of my cousins - they’re applying to southern schools. Is the whole NE school a thing of the past?

LOL. Maybe that's why all the dummies end up in south

[Anonymous]

This just isn’t true. It’s a lie spread on DCUM by magats. Most young kids are disgusted by what’s going on in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Maybe they’d consider with excessive merit aid, but these places suck.

Also it isn’t the same talent pool. Williams or Harvard isn’t getting the same applicants as Arkansas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just found out two good friends from college - one in the Chicago area, the other in the Boston area - are sending their kids to Clemson and Ole Miss in a couple of weeks. Great, typical UMC overachiever and super outgoing students. According to their parents, it's the sunny weather, fun and Southern vibes via social media, and football.

My husband works in politics and he believes fmr Ohio governor and congressman John Kasich also sent his twin daughters to Clemson about a decade ago. So this trend has been burgeoning for a while.

It’s social media and Tik tok rush videos. And the kids are no longer getting accepted to the top schools. Our friends in Long Island had kids that applied to Ivies, UVA OOS, didn’t get in any and headed south. We see it at our HS too. But - the top kids around us still head up north to Ivies/SLACs

[Anonymous]

Anyone following RushTok? ASU, Alabama, and other southern schools make people want to go there instead of dealing with gender-neutral-looking women in the Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought all of the politics of the south made it toxic, yet all of my cousins in the DMV had absolutely zero desire to shoot for ivies or any of the other elite schools in the NE. They became enamored with the lifestyle on the campuses of southern schools by watching social media vids of girls getting ready to go to to tailgates at Alabama or UGA. Other types of of events and parties on the campuses of southern schools also had tons of social media coverage. The students themselves post the videos, so all of the southern schools get tons of free marketing. I heard this was also a big trend with all of the friends of my cousins - they’re applying to southern schools. Is the whole NE school a thing of the past?

LOL. Maybe that's why all the dummies end up in south

Ha! Another reason to seriously limit your kids SM time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just found out two good friends from college - one in the Chicago area, the other in the Boston area - are sending their kids to Clemson and Ole Miss in a couple of weeks. Great, typical UMC overachiever and super outgoing students. According to their parents, it's the sunny weather, fun and Southern vibes via social media, and football.

My husband works in politics and he believes fmr Ohio governor and congressman John Kasich also sent his twin daughters to Clemson about a decade ago. So this trend has been burgeoning for a while.

It’s social media and Tik tok rush videos. And the kids are no longer getting accepted to the top schools. Our friends in Long Island had kids that applied to Ivies, UVA OOS, didn’t get in any and headed south. We see it at our HS too. But - the top kids around us still head up north to Ivies/SLACs

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just found out two good friends from college - one in the Chicago area, the other in the Boston area - are sending their kids to Clemson and Ole Miss in a couple of weeks. Great, typical UMC overachiever and super outgoing students. According to their parents, it's the sunny weather, fun and Southern vibes via social media, and football.

My husband works in politics and he believes fmr Ohio governor and congressman John Kasich also sent his twin daughters to Clemson about a decade ago. So this trend has been burgeoning for a while.

It’s social media and Tik tok rush videos. And the kids are no longer getting accepted to the top schools. Our friends in Long Island had kids that applied to Ivies, UVA OOS, didn’t get in any and headed south. We see it at our HS too. But - the top kids around us still head up north to Ivies/SLACs

+1 they don’t want to go in-state and didn’t get into the top schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone following RushTok? ASU, Alabama, and other southern schools make people want to go there instead of dealing with gender-neutral-looking women in the Ivies.

Cause nothing is more attractive than an athliesure addicted white woman who’s oompa-loompa orange with the intelligence of a doorknob (she’s getting her MRS) and has no independent thoughts beyond her man. That’s soooo attractive.

Oh and she’s Christian but also hates immigrants and couldn’t live without her snarky church community.

Sorry but any accusations of these women being “real women” is a joke. They can’t think beyond their plastic surgery.

[Anonymous]

Let’s be real, if a kid is included by tik tok and rush videos they weren’t the right caliber anyway. The ambitious students are not heading south. The average and below that want fun, sure. Nothing wrong with that, but two very different groups. Nothing has changed for the serious students.

[Anonymous]

*influenced

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just found out two good friends from college - one in the Chicago area, the other in the Boston area - are sending their kids to Clemson and Ole Miss in a couple of weeks. Great, typical UMC overachiever and super outgoing students. According to their parents, it's the sunny weather, fun and Southern vibes via social media, and football.

My husband works in politics and he believes fmr Ohio governor and congressman John Kasich also sent his twin daughters to Clemson about a decade ago. So this trend has been burgeoning for a while.

It’s social media and Tik tok rush videos. And the kids are no longer getting accepted to the top schools. Our friends in Long Island had kids that applied to Ivies, UVA OOS, didn’t get in any and headed south. We see it at our HS too. But - the top kids around us still head up north to Ivies/SLACs

Sweetie, they are not wasting their time even applying to "top schools." Their target is some chill somewhat selective college like SMU or Clemson. They have zero interest in spending four years around insufferable, creepy, far left, Godless, Zionist, abrasive striver peers in some cold weather town. To smart outgoing normal kids, "where fun goes to die" describes not just UChicago but nearly all of the U.S. News top 20, outside of perhaps Vanderbilt and Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be real, if a kid is included by tik tok and rush videos they weren’t the right caliber anyway. The ambitious students are not heading south. The average and below that want fun, sure. Nothing wrong with that, but two very different groups. Nothing has changed for the serious students.

Southern colleges are around red hot economies. Average intellect ambitious kids go to these colleges, rush frats and sororities, marry young, and drive Range Rovers and Escalades and live in a mansion by the time they're age 30. The big SEC and ACC colleges pump out tons of lawyers, medical doctors, dentists, accountants, engineers, and business executives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be real, if a kid is included by tik tok and rush videos they weren’t the right caliber anyway. The ambitious students are not heading south. The average and below that want fun, sure. Nothing wrong with that, but two very different groups. Nothing has changed for the serious students.

Southern colleges are around red hot economies. Average intellect ambitious kids go to these colleges, rush frats and sororities, marry young, and drive Range Rovers and Escalades and live in a mansion by the time they're age 30. The big SEC and ACC colleges pump out tons of lawyers, medical doctors, dentists, accountants, engineers, and business executives.

Agreed. I don't think they're top of the applicant pool at all, but it's reasonable to go south if your goal is home ownership and career advancement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be real, if a kid is included by tik tok and rush videos they weren’t the right caliber anyway.The ambitious students are not heading south. The average and below that want fun, sure. Nothing wrong with that, but two very different groups. Nothing has changed for the serious students.

While being influenced by marketing, meaningless fake and fraudulent "rankings" published by some rag magazine (U.S. News), and hysterical status-obsessed weirdos on college forums makes you top caliber? It's also interesting how you status-obsessed dweebs pretend that all these kids heading South are unmotivated slackers. That couldn't be further from the truth, so it just reveals what isolated, narrow-minded shut-ins you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be real, if a kid is included by tik tok and rush videos they weren’t the right caliber anyway.The ambitious students are not heading south. The average and below that want fun, sure. Nothing wrong with that, but two very different groups. Nothing has changed for the serious students.

While being influenced by marketing, meaningless fake and fraudulent "rankings" published by some rag magazine (U.S. News), and hysterical status-obsessed weirdos on college forums makes you top caliber? It's also interesting how you status-obsessed dweebs pretend that all these kids heading South are unmotivated slackers. That couldn't be further from the truth, so it just reveals what isolated, narrow-minded shut-ins you are.

No one said they're unmotivated slackers. Stop projecting.