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

[Anonymous]

I don't think parents are appreciating how much 18 year olds today want a normal, healthy, people-focused college experience. This generation has been hugely impacted by covid and social media isolation. And they just want a normal, interesting, and fun college experience. And New England and the Ivies tend to suck right now in terms of lived experience. So these students are looking elsewhere - the South, the Midwest, the West Coast. It's not complicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think parents are appreciating how much 18 year olds today want a normal, healthy, people-focused college experience. This generation has been hugely impacted by covid and social media isolation. And they just want a normal, interesting, and fun college experience. And New England and the Ivies tend to suck right now in terms of lived experience. So these students are looking elsewhere - the South, the Midwest, the West Coast. It's not complicated.

No, you're just talking about two different college experiences. Going to an ivy is an awesome experience with a ton of fun. You can be miserable, but those are in subjects where it'll be miserable in the south too-Math, Physics, engineering....But the reality is that the type of person who is going to the typical southern state school is no where competitive enough for an ivy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think parents are appreciating how much 18 year olds today want a normal, healthy, people-focused college experience. This generation has been hugely impacted by covid and social media isolation. And they just want a normal, interesting, and fun college experience. And New England and the Ivies tend to suck right now in terms of lived experience. So these students are looking elsewhere - the South, the Midwest, the West Coast. It's not complicated.

My Ivy kid is having an absolute blast as are their peers, so that’s really not true. I also see why others have a strong pull to south for what it offers. The top students at our private still want the NE schools.

[Anonymous]

There’s a difference between UF or UGA and Bama and Ole Miss

My kid was accepted to 6 schools all over the country but chose an SEC school, because:

Larger and more “fun” than some more academic schools. (Cough W&M cough)
Great program for their major
Received scholarship money and distinction
Lots of activities to offer
They are a boy so not exactly Rushtok, but didn’t rush and that has been fine, has lots of friends and things to do.
Their program is popular so will have no trouble getting a job

Yes they have “conservative”/ young Republican friends but he’s not and it’s not the majority on campus at all.

If anything, he’s either going to a) change someone’s mind about Democrats not being that bad or b) get the hell out of there and move back here anyway. (By the way, half his friends were “undecided” in the Harris/trump election. Don't kid yourself about the DC area, especially men ages 18-24.)

[Anonymous]

Ai and other technologies have made intellectual returns fall and “hot-maxxxing” of relatively greater importance

In light of this, why not attend somewhere that you’ll be the hottest version of yourself?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then why do top schools with significantly smaller student populations have more applications than many of these southern schools…sometimes double or triple or quadruple the number of applications?

SMU only receives about 15k applications while every Ivy is at least double that level (Dartmouth receives the fewest at 31k and is 40% smaller).

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then why do top schools with significantly smaller student populations have more applications than many of these southern schools…sometimes double or triple or quadruple the number of applications?

SMU only receives about 15k applications while every Ivy is at least double that level (Dartmouth receives the fewest at 31k and is 40% smaller).

Because there are literally billions of grubby creepy status-obsessed cheating strivers in the world. Normal attractive UMC ambitious American kids don't want to be anywhere near that kind of ethos and cohort.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then why do top schools with significantly smaller student populations have more applications than many of these southern schools…sometimes double or triple or quadruple the number of applications?

SMU only receives about 15k applications while every Ivy is at least double that level (Dartmouth receives the fewest at 31k and is 40% smaller).

Because there are literally billions of grubby creepy status-obsessed cheating strivers in the world. Normal attractive UMC ambitious American kids don't want to be anywhere near that kind of ethos and cohort.

That doesn’t sound like a plausible reason.

You need to try harder when grasping at straws.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Then why do top schools with significantly smaller student populations have more applications than many of these southern schools…sometimes double or triple or quadruple the number of applications?

SMU only receives about 15k applications while every Ivy is at least double that level (Dartmouth receives the fewest at 31k and is 40% smaller).

Because there are literally billions of grubby creepy status-obsessed cheating strivers in the world. Normal attractive UMC ambitious American kids don't want to be anywhere near that kind of ethos and cohort.

Ok. Then good thing there are southern schools for the showered and shaved non strivers.

[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.

+1. Not to mention you'll be attacked and probably expelled by the Zionist president and Zionist deans if you dare speak out in support of Palestine.

[Anonymous]

I find this entire thread funny. People here don't know that the ivy tiktokers are some of the most popular-especially the nice dinners and galas at Yale, which gained a ton of traction last year. Many influencers at the top schools. A few southern schools get a couple more applicants and suddenly we all act as if the sky is falling.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+1. Not to mention you'll be attacked and probably expelled by the Zionist president and Zionist deans if you dare speak out in support of Palestine.

Right cause this is what I wanna see outside my dorm

[Anonymous]

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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

It's a rich flex to go to college out of state and have a rich daddy who can casually pay non-resident tuition rate at a Southern public degree mill and the pricey preppy privates like SMU, Miami, Wake Forest. Added cachet if you get into a hyper competitive high status sorority or fraternity. Your social media, which is essentially now a permanent public record that'll follow you around for life, will be gorgeous Southern vibes with attractive and happy peers. Meet a spouse, marry young, and buy a McMansion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find this entire thread funny. People here don't know that the ivy tiktokers are some of the most popular-especially the nice dinners and galas at Yale, which gained a ton of traction last year. Many influencers at the top schools. A few southern schools get a couple more applicants and suddenly we all act as if the sky is falling.

Every major college has popular influencers. Of course there are also Ivy dweeb influencers pandering to the two billion Indians and Chinese strivers and tiger parents that'll obsessively follow such content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Then why do top schools with significantly smaller student populations have more applications than many of these southern schools…sometimes double or triple or quadruple the number of applications?

SMU only receives about 15k applications while every Ivy is at least double that level (Dartmouth receives the fewest at 31k and is 40% smaller).

You can't really be this thick, can you? Largely only the rich kids who know they want to go to SMU and can afford it apply to SMU. Ivies get every striver in the world applying.