Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

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Anonymous wrote:Trigger bans are already in place in many red states.

If you have not read them before sending your kid to a college in one of those states you are a sucky parent.

Little susie is going to have sex Little Johnny is going to have sex. ZERO contraception will be available.

Little susie has a health emergency related to any female issues DEAD!

I Know DCUM doesn't agree. Good luck with that you will be horrified in about 9 months.

I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

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Anonymous wrote:Southern universities have moved on from covid. It’s not surprising that someone who is 18 wants to spend $60k a year on a school where you’re allowed to attend parties, don’t have to take frequent nasal swabs, and aren’t required to take repeated boosters for covid. Not to mention better weather, fun sporting events and prettier women.

All schools have moved on from COVID. The South isn't special, outside of the insidious objectification of women, which is a different kind of special.

Au contraire. Mandates are still going strong at Northeast schools. Hundreds require a booster if the student hasn't had one yet and several even require the new booster for kids who already had the old one. Some families have HAD IT with the total lack of ethics, whether they say so publicly or not.

(Let's see if this post gets censored; it is common for DCUM to remove replies like mine.)

History will undoubtedly look back on these Covid mandates unfavorably. Especially mandates for kids and teens/college students. They are completely unethical and anti-science.

My kid is still in high school, but the dogmatic way some colleges (especially here in the North) implemented these mandates is scary.

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-1 not at all. we have vaxx mandates today for kids in school, including college.

We have vaccine mandates based on science.

The Covid vaccine mandate is as anti-science as you can get. The shot doesn’t prevent transmission and it doesn’t prevent a teen from getting Covid. We also have data comparing students at colleges with Covid vaccine mandates to colleges without vaccine mandates that show how irrational the Covid vaccine/booster mandates were.

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This is the one issue where DCUM doesn't want to take their direction from Scandinavia, which has disallowed COVID vaccines for teens and young adults, who face more risk from the vaccine than the disease.

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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.”

Ignorant...

[Anonymous]

I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

You may not like it or agree with it, but girls and parents are absolutely including this in their decision. But, this entire thread is about choice so why do you care? Kids should be able to choose whatever school they want, for whatever reason.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM lives in some kind of alternate universe where they things that they think really matter to the overwhelming majority of college students and their parents actually don’t.

Very few families are writing off colleges because of vaccine mandates. Very few families are writing off colleges in red states because of abortion laws. Etc.

High school students are choosing southern colleges for the weather, the atmosphere, the sports, the fun, and yes because there are many good ones with higher acceptance rates. Parents are drawn to these schools because often the cost is lower.

End of story.

Ch 9 The Story is Not Over!

Kids do care about the abortion laws and vaccination requirements because, in addition to their own issues, they are indicators of other potential issues from an ignorant, angry political climate. My kid is bi and very worried that some of the legislatures that passed abortion bans and vaccine mandate bans will also pass restrictions on LGBTQ. She does not want to be in an environment like Florida where the laws suggest who she is is not acceptable content for young people's reading material. It feels like an attack on her identity.

I think folks in the south would probably prefer that people like your daughter stay in the progressive NE. So everyone wins...

[Anonymous]

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I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

You may not like it or agree with it, but girls and parents are absolutely including this in their decision. But, this entire thread is about choice so why do you care? Kids should be able to choose whatever school they want, for whatever reason.

I think you fail to understand my point. Of course people should choose a college that they are comfortable with. My critique was about the ignorant rhetoric, which used falsehoods to make its point.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not just "Northern Kids"; people from all over the country are going to these schools for various reasons. Not sure why this would bother people on here or why anyone would care, unless your kid is planning on applying.

DCUM gets mad when people actually like the South.

and despite the warm weather, the South is evidently full of snowflakes.

Here’s a shocker. Ya’ll already live in the south in the DCUM area.

Really? Last I checked DC didn’t fight with the traitors in the Civil War.

That’s doesn’t change the fact that you’re considered southerners.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

AND... that Lincoln had to unconstitutionally arrest Maryland legislators before they had a chance to secede... Yup, it's the south.

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My critique was about the ignorant rhetoric, which used falsehoods to make its point.

How is the rhetoric a falsehood if a state can press criminal charges against a woman who crosses state lines to have an abortion?

[Anonymous]

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I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

You may not like it or agree with it, but girls and parents are absolutely including this in their decision. But, this entire thread is about choice so why do you care? Kids should be able to choose whatever school they want, for whatever reason.

+1 Parents typically know their kids' priorities and extracurricular activities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trigger bans are already in place in many red states.

If you have not read them before sending your kid to a college in one of those states you are a sucky parent.

Little susie is going to have sex Little Johnny is going to have sex. ZERO contraception will be available.

Little susie has a health emergency related to any female issues DEAD!

I Know DCUM doesn't agree. Good luck with that you will be horrified in about 9 months.

I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

No ever hospital will treat an etopic pregnancy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

You may not like it or agree with it, but girls and parents are absolutely including this in their decision. But, this entire thread is about choice so why do you care? Kids should be able to choose whatever school they want, for whatever reason.

I’m sure some are, but applications at big southern schools, particularly out of state applications, are up by significant percentages this year, which suggests it is not a factor for many kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trigger bans are already in place in many red states.

If you have not read them before sending your kid to a college in one of those states you are a sucky parent.

Little susie is going to have sex Little Johnny is going to have sex. ZERO contraception will be available.

Little susie has a health emergency related to any female issues DEAD!

I Know DCUM doesn't agree. Good luck with that you will be horrified in about 9 months.

I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

Are you serious? You think the only scenario where an abortion is needed is “birth control”?

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[Anonymous]

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I always wonder if posters like this are serious. If yes, you either have 1) little intellectual curiosity or 2) irrational anxiety (or a combination of both). But just to calm your troubled heart... folks in the south still have contraception, and treatment of ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages is not banned. AND, shockingly, if little Susie wants to use abortion as a form of birth control, her DMV mom and dad can still bring her home for a few days...

You may not like it or agree with it, but girls and parents are absolutely including this in their decision. But, this entire thread is about choice so why do you care? Kids should be able to choose whatever school they want, for whatever reason.

I’m sure some are, but applications at big southern schools, particularly out of state applications, are up by significant percentages this year, which suggests it is not a factor for many kids.

Citation? The deadline for most schools is still months away - what are you basing this on?

What are the application numbers like at ALL schools this year? It’s only meaningful to compare against totals and other regions.

[Anonymous]

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My critique was about the ignorant rhetoric, which used falsehoods to make its point.

How is the rhetoric a falsehood if a state can press criminal charges against a woman who crosses state lines to have an abortion?

Great question.