Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

[Anonymous]

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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.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to Texas? 20% of UT student body is Asian with same at Univ of Houston. 40% at Rice and nearly 10% at the remaining TX schools. And all Texas schools have greater Hispanic populations than the entirety of the NE. As a Hispanic myself, I'd much rather be in school in Texas than anywhere on the E coast. Y'all just need to get out more.

+1 I think a lot of these posters have never been out of New England and have attended schools and lived in states with no fewer than 88% whites. They've lived their lives in a rarefied bubble. Their private high schools may be "diverse," but only if those "diverse" families have money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Simple supply and demand. And all those northern libs? They will be registering to vote. There will be a shift over time. You just can’t fight progress.

Even my nieces and nephews who were raised in Alabama and went to a big southern school voted for Biden, are fully vaxxed and date outside their race. Progress is happening with or without northerners. So many misinformed generalizations about the South here.

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[Anonymous]

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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.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

+1 Rice University Asian % is almost 3x general population. PP saying it is a white thing is 1000% wrong. Look at the numbers.

[Anonymous]

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

They go to Tulane

and Emory

and Duke (22%)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

+1 Rice University Asian % is almost 3x general population. PP saying it is a white thing is 1000% wrong. Look at the numbers.

Rice’s Asian population is higher than Cornell, Harvard and Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

+1 Rice University Asian % is almost 3x general population. PP saying it is a white thing is 1000% wrong. Look at the numbers.

Location is an important factor but not as much as the school itself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easier to get in. More sports. Hotter kids.

because it's easier. Generally, good looking people rely on their looks a lot more than their brains. Not so good looking people have to rely on their smarts more.

Southern schools have hotter and fatter kids at the same time

Nescacs have less IG models but also less zaftig.

In fact I don’t think you are allowed to attend a nescac if your bmi is high

Are the females hotter or do they waste more time on their hair and make up?

We have visited a lot of southern schools in the last 2 years. We have also visited a lot of northern schools. It isn’t just the girls that are hotter, the boys are too. Overall, the kids are just very good looking at the southern schools. It is very noticeable. I didn’t see many overweight kids AT ALL at places like Tulane, Florida, Clemson, Uof SC, Auburn, SMU, Tennessee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to Texas? 20% of UT student body is Asian with same at Univ of Houston. 40% at Rice and nearly 10% at the remaining TX schools. And all Texas schools have greater Hispanic populations than the entirety of the NE. As a Hispanic myself, I'd much rather be in school in Texas than anywhere on the E coast. Y'all just need to get out more.

+1 I think a lot of these posters have never been out of New England and have attended schools and lived in states with no fewer than 88% whites. They've lived their lives in a rarefied bubble. Their private high schools may be "diverse," but only if those "diverse" families have money.

100%. I'm from Texas and I was actually blown away by the lack of diversity on the E coast when I moved here. It is WHITE. I'm not really too bothered by that but there is some gall from the NE crowd to call the South "white". Texas is a minority majority state so y'all can just sit down with all that. We don't need to seek out diverse schools for our kids. The entire state is diverse. It's not some to-do list that we have for our kids. It never occurred to me that I'd need to find other Hispanic kids in schools. We are EVERYWHERE.

But ok, NE. Enjoy the bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MY 32 ACT kid was rejected from Auburn this fall. It is crazy out there.

Do you have any idea why? No demonstrated interest perhaps?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MY 32 ACT kid was rejected from Auburn this fall. It is crazy out there.

Do you have any idea why? No demonstrated interest perhaps?

Auburn no longer tracks interest, but DC actually visited. This year they are only considering applicant’s GPA and test scores, no essays or recommendation letters. I think they have had an 150% increase in applications and are overwhelmed. My DC attends a rigorous DC school with no APs or weighted classes (private school), so I think they didn’t know what to do with a GPA that wasn’t 3.8+

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to Texas? 20% of UT student body is Asian with same at Univ of Houston. 40% at Rice and nearly 10% at the remaining TX schools. And all Texas schools have greater Hispanic populations than the entirety of the NE. As a Hispanic myself, I'd much rather be in school in Texas than anywhere on the E coast. Y'all just need to get out more.

+1 I think a lot of these posters have never been out of New England and have attended schools and lived in states with no fewer than 88% whites. They've lived their lives in a rarefied bubble. Their private high schools may be "diverse," but only if those "diverse" families have money.

100%. I'm from Texas and I was actually blown away by the lack of diversity on the E coast when I moved here. It is WHITE. I'm not really too bothered by that but there is some gall from the NE crowd to call the South "white". Texas is a minority majority state so y'all can just sit down with all that. We don't need to seek out diverse schools for our kids. The entire state is diverse. It's not some to-do list that we have for our kids. It never occurred to me that I'd need to find other Hispanic kids in schools. We are EVERYWHERE.

But ok, NE. Enjoy the bubble.

PP here. Exactly! Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a white collar professional in dc, I wonder if grads from the south might be more appealing to employers up here in the NE who have grown exhausted by the current crop of employees who make everything an issue. I’m completely serious.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to Texas? 20% of UT student body is Asian with same at Univ of Houston. 40% at Rice and nearly 10% at the remaining TX schools. And all Texas schools have greater Hispanic populations than the entirety of the NE. As a Hispanic myself, I'd much rather be in school in Texas than anywhere on the E coast. Y'all just need to get out more.

+1 I think a lot of these posters have never been out of New England and have attended schools and lived in states with no fewer than 88% whites. They've lived their lives in a rarefied bubble. Their private high schools may be "diverse," but only if those "diverse" families have money.

100%. I'm from Texas and I was actually blown away by the lack of diversity on the E coast when I moved here. It is WHITE. I'm not really too bothered by that but there is some gall from the NE crowd to call the South "white". Texas is a minority majority state so y'all can just sit down with all that. We don't need to seek out diverse schools for our kids. The entire state is diverse. It's not some to-do list that we have for our kids. It never occurred to me that I'd need to find other Hispanic kids in schools. We are EVERYWHERE.

But ok, NE. Enjoy the bubble.

PP here. Exactly! Thank you.

+2 This weird narcissistic view that the South is just filled with a bunch of "stupid white boys" which has been uttered multiple times in this thread is completely ridiculous. Just reinforces my negative view of the NOVA and higher crowd that frequent this board. Completely out of touch narcissists that have no clue on how the rest of the country lives their lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think only white kids go south. We are Asian and would not consider a Southern school, besides UVa.

You don't speak for Asians.
Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Rice are plenty popular.

This is ridiculous. Have you been to Texas? 20% of UT student body is Asian with same at Univ of Houston. 40% at Rice and nearly 10% at the remaining TX schools. And all Texas schools have greater Hispanic populations than the entirety of the NE. As a Hispanic myself, I'd much rather be in school in Texas than anywhere on the E coast. Y'all just need to get out more.

+1 I think a lot of these posters have never been out of New England and have attended schools and lived in states with no fewer than 88% whites. They've lived their lives in a rarefied bubble. Their private high schools may be "diverse," but only if those "diverse" families have money.

100%. I'm from Texas and I was actually blown away by the lack of diversity on the E coast when I moved here. It is WHITE. I'm not really too bothered by that but there is some gall from the NE crowd to call the South "white". Texas is a minority majority state so y'all can just sit down with all that. We don't need to seek out diverse schools for our kids. The entire state is diverse. It's not some to-do list that we have for our kids. It never occurred to me that I'd need to find other Hispanic kids in schools. We are EVERYWHERE.

But ok, NE. Enjoy the bubble.

PP here. Exactly! Thank you.

+2 This weird narcissistic view that the South is just filled with a bunch of "stupid white boys" which has been uttered multiple times in this thread is completely ridiculous. Just reinforces my negative view of the NOVA and higher crowd that frequent this board. Completely out of touch narcissists that have no clue on how the rest of the country lives their lives.

Ha! Let them keep thinking that so their kids don't take the merit $.

[Anonymous]

CA students have been doing this for the past decade. Great students from UMC backgrounds who should have been admitted to the better UC schools but got shut out.