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Pitt has 5.5% of its students from the south, which is way more than Ole Miss and Oklahoma have from the NE and other relatively low-ranked academically southern schools have from the NE (which is around 1.5% - 2.0%). We are conflating many different themes here. I think it's been shown that either kids or parents or whomever care about prestige and rankings which is why Duke, Vandy, Rice and Emory (which are private and don't really have a mandate to take kids in-state other than I guess Duke) look dramatically different from Southern state schools in terms of the origins of their students. Geez...how many times on DCUM do you see someone asking "Duke or Penn"? Most kids (nearly all?) applying to Rice aren't applying to LSU or Alabama. Now, some of these SEC flagships are highly ranked...Texas, Georgia, Florida...they will also draw differently than say Ole Miss...very differently. |
Hanging out with lawyer types focused on status. That sounds like something but fun is not the first word that comes to mind. |
California kids are starting to apply to Rutgers and Temple, although they may be considered mid-Atlantic. I think that both said that they received more OOS applications than in years past. |
#blessed |
Auburn became hot first, and then their acceptance rate decreased. Next was Tennessee. And now Bama. Ole Miss will be next (and fwiw they have the most charming town). I doubt Oklahoma will ever become as popular…unless their sports continue to do well and their sororities kick it up a notch. ICYMI: the marketing via Greek life is intentional and it serves these schools well. The marketing for sports coupled with the Rah! Rah! student life is also intentional. Heck, Penn State paid MCPS Sherwood grad Katie Feeney to go to their school AND to market their sports and student life on social media…and now she’s working for espn and living large in NYC. Is she just a dumb blonde sorority girl? She made a million+ before college. Tik Tok can be a money maker if you are smart, cute, and outgoing. |
| Go watch U Penn Alphi Phi on TikTok. |
| USC Chi Omega on Tik Tok is impressive…they have costumes. |
| Michigan rushes in the snow. |
Ole Miss has a 98% acceptance rate…it really can’t go higher. Bama is 76% and will stay that high probably forever. It hasn’t budged. I think people completely underestimate distance with college decisions. To this day, 89% of kids don’t travel more than 500 miles. UTK falls within this for the mid-Atlantic. Vandy’s #1 OOS population is IL and Chicago also falls within this 500 mile radius. |
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https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2025/07/08/northeast-students-lsu-popularity-college-south
This July article has stats on what seems like a dramatic increase in applications from northern kids to southern schools. The reality is very few kids made this bold choice a decade ago, so the uptick is actually dramatic and noticeable…even though it’s a small number comparatively. |
Correct…but using LSU as an example, they went from 100 to 586 out of a freshman class of 9,000. Ole Miss has 200 kids in total out of a class of 5000. The growth rates are high but the nominal numbers aren’t. |
Isn’t that the point of an uptick? |
South Carolina is known for very strong Greek houses |
Is this real? Except for being a senator, this describes over 50% of the posters on here. |
That PP seems to know an awful lot about these girls. |