Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

NP. Idk. The people denigrating the southern schools in this thread demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. The Southern schools are objectively more diverse than the northeastern schools DCUM idolizes, and the posters pushing the “stupid white boy” narrative do seem wildly ignorant.

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

NP. Idk. The people denigrating the southern schools in this thread demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. The Southern schools are objectively more diverse than the northeastern schools DCUM idolizes, and the posters pushing the “stupid white boy” narrative do seem wildly ignorant.

But, as is important to understand when talking abut the south, a few idiots in the crowd don't warrant making assumptions about the whole bunch. Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northern kids are flocking to Southern universities for warmer weather, honors colleges with merit scholarships, more traditional / less political experience, sunny weather, more polite society,lower cost housing, athletic clean-cut atmosphere, closer access to warm weather beaches, more attractive students due to better weather which encourages students to engage in outdoor activities.

60%--or a bit more--of the students at the University of Alabama are non-residents.

This sounds pretty appealing. Can anyone recommend a few Universities similar to JMU in the South? My son is set on JMU but I would explore other similar colleges.

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

NP. Idk. The people denigrating the southern schools in this thread demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. The Southern schools are objectively more diverse than the northeastern schools DCUM idolizes, and the posters pushing the “stupid white boy” narrative do seem wildly ignorant.

DP. And it’s not just this thread or this forum. I’ve spent enough time on this site to know that every single discussion about anything south of Fairfax County goes the same way.

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

NP. Idk. The people denigrating the southern schools in this thread demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. The Southern schools are objectively more diverse than the northeastern schools DCUM idolizes, and the posters pushing the “stupid white boy” narrative do seem wildly ignorant.

well, Alabama undergrad is 77% white, Auburn's freshman class was 84% white, Ole Miss is 77% white, Clemson is 80%, South Carolina is 77%, and these are the schools enticing kids with their merit aid for 3.5 GPAs and 32 ACT scores. So 'white' seems pretty apt.

[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.

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.

I'm Hispanic and would not send my kid to school in Texas, not a diverse representation of Hispanics there. Mostly all are Mexican or Mexican decent.

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Anonymous wrote:Much easier to get in. It's not like anyone got into Harvard and then decided to go to Alabama for the weather. They are usually average students who don't have a chance in NE.

Actually, I wouldn't doubt that they have. If someone got into both, they're likely getting a free ride at Alabama, versus potentially 80,000 a year for Harvard, or whatever it is now. Cost matters to some people more than "prestige."

This. Friend of DS got into Princeton last year, but passed it up for the full ride to Alabama

This makes sense for especially for real majors like CS Engineering etc.
You can still say I got into Harvard

Nah - MIT grad here.

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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.

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.

According to this list, Miami has the most diverse faculty in the nation for top schools. Georgia Tech is #5, Texas is #13, Emory is #14. All are ahead of every single Ivy.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/3/

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Anonymous wrote:Much easier to get in. It's not like anyone got into Harvard and then decided to go to Alabama for the weather. They are usually average students who don't have a chance in NE.

Actually, I wouldn't doubt that they have. If someone got into both, they're likely getting a free ride at Alabama, versus potentially 80,000 a year for Harvard, or whatever it is now. Cost matters to some people more than "prestige."

Has nothing to do with prestige. It's all about recruiting and income potential.

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Easier to get in

Weather (for some)

[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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

NP. Idk. The people denigrating the southern schools in this thread demonstrably do not know what they are talking about. The Southern schools are objectively more diverse than the northeastern schools DCUM idolizes, and the posters pushing the “stupid white boy” narrative do seem wildly ignorant.

well, Alabama undergrad is 77% white, Auburn's freshman class was 84% white, Ole Miss is 77% white, Clemson is 80%, South Carolina is 77%, and these are the schools enticing kids with their merit aid for 3.5 GPAs and 32 ACT scores. So 'white' seems pretty apt.

Undergrad, per NCES:

U Alabama 11% black, 5% Hispanic
Auburn 5% black, 4% Hispanic
Ole Miss 12% black, 4% Hispanic
Clemson 6% black, 7% Hispanic
UofSC 9% black, 5% Hispanic

Which schools did you want to compare these numbers with? A sampling:

Vandy 11% black, 11% Hispanic
UVA 7% black, 7% Hispanic
Duke 8% black, 10% Hispanic
Harvard 8% black, 11% Hispanic
Yale 8% black, 15% Hispanic
Georgetown 6% black, 8% Hispanic
BU 4% black, 10% Hispanic
Northeastern 6% black, 11% Hispanic
UC Berkeley 2% black, 20% Hispanic

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Much easier to get in. It's not like anyone got into Harvard and then decided to go to Alabama for the weather. They are usually average students who don't have a chance in NE.

Actually, I wouldn't doubt that they have. If someone got into both, they're likely getting a free ride at Alabama, versus potentially 80,000 a year for Harvard, or whatever it is now. Cost matters to some people more than "prestige."

Has nothing to do with prestige. It's all about recruiting and income potential.

Ummm, which is based upon the perceived prestige. This doesn't matter as much for some majors.

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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.

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.

so you hate stereotypes so much that you respond by stereotyping yourself.

Read the bold, my comment was specifically about the crowd that frequents this board which make their ignorance and intolerance widely know. So maybe brush up on your reading comprehension skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

According to this list, Miami has the most diverse faculty in the nation for top schools. Georgia Tech is #5, Texas is #13, Emory is #14. All are ahead of every single Ivy.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/3/

Yeah, this is obviously true to anyone who has stepped foot on any of these campuses. DCUM is so blind when it comes to the slavish devotion to the Ivies here.