Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

x1 million

My DD already crossed off red states because she values women’s rights.

😉

[Anonymous]

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.

How about getting into Yale and going to Auburn? It does happen. You think Suni Lee couldn’t have gone anywhere she wanted?

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2017/05/26/williamson-student-writes-pizza-gets-into-yale-university/343344001/

[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+

There were entire threads of shocked people last year when their kids didn't get into Auburn. The acceptance rate for their two early action periods was 24%.

https://ocm.auburn.edu/newsroom/news_articles/2021/12/131308-record-number-of-applicants.php

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

Truly. No one cares about this issue.

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+100
Just the loons on this forum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

Truly. No one cares about this issue.

+1

+100
Just the loons on this forum.

And the politically active teens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

I think you under estimate how many women are either pro-life or apathetic until it's their abortion.

Or women with the means to get themselves to another state should they need one. Good jobs in academia are hard enough to come by. Female faculty would be fools to limit their options geographically.

Valuing human rights isn’t limited to women.

[Anonymous]

PP, try to follow along and rely less an emojis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, try to follow along and rely less an emojis.

OK👍😊

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mediocre students and/or families with limited financial resources (not broke but still part of the poors).

It's interesting that this thread has focused almost solely on southern/southwestern public universities when the article the OP referred to specifically cited SMU and TCU as examples of private schools in the south that are increasingly popular. With tuition and fees around $62K and an acceptance rate of about 50%, SMU is not really cheaper or easier to get into than T50-T100 schools in the northeast/mid-Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

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.

+1. But, I'm sure the football's fun, the people are nice and the weather's great. The new climbing wall at Auburn looks great too.

[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.

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.

I think you mean descent. What actually is wrong with being of Mexican descent? The border between Mexico and Texas has been historically fluid, so it makes sense that Texas would have a lot of Mexicans. My Mexican in-laws call Texas “occupied Mexico.”

Apparently some Hispanics around here think the Hispanics in Texas are the wrong kind of diversity or something. 🙄

And this is why you cannot lump all Hispanics into a single voting block. There is a lot of disdain for other groups. PP above (way above) thinks Mexican-Americans are the wrong kind of Hispanic. Because superiority. It's ok. We have the better food

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

x1 million

My DD already crossed off red states because she values women’s rights.

Your DD is definitely morally superior to everyone applying to southern schools.

Certainly more than MAGA trash.

What a thoughtful, nuanced response

What more is there to say? There isn't much nuance to it.

Or intellect.

[Anonymous]

The north is largely a wasteland. The south is new, booming and moneyed. Warm weather makes college fun, cold weather makes college miserable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years, especially wrt female staff at schools in these states, when the person has other choices.

You can tell me they are diverse states and schools all you want - doesn't change state laws that put people's lives in danger.

I think you under estimate how many women are either pro-life or apathetic until it's their abortion.

Or women with the means to get themselves to another state should they need one. Good jobs in academia are hard enough to come by. Female faculty would be fools to limit their options geographically.

Valuing human rights isn’t limited to women.

I was responding specifically to the PP who mentioned female staff.

[Anonymous]

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

Tons of Jews in North Carolina

At the public universities there?