Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?

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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.

DP. Yes, it is about choice. I happen to be pro-choice and have no issue whatsoever with sending my kids to southern universities. You do you and the rest of us will as well.

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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

So if you go by that then all the DCUM comments about the south aren’t out of ignorance or jealousy but the hard truths that you only tell people in your family.

DP. The derogatory remarks on DCUM about the south are almost definitely made by transplants to the DC area. There’s nothing they don’t like to $hit on, including this area and any place further south. Miserable people.

you really must clue the rest of us in on your preternatural ability to divine the identities of posters on an anonymous board.

And if you're sh*tting on them, I suppose that makes you a miserable person as well.

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I think folks in the south would probably prefer that people like your daughter stay in the progressive NE. So everyone wins... +1 Nothing wrong with different choices. Bryn Mawr and Mt Holyoke students probably wouldn't like UGA, Emory, UNC, Davidson, Vanderbilt, etc.

I haven't visited UGA or Emory lately, but LGBT+ kids are absolutely welcome at UNC, Davidson & Vandy. The issue for many of course isn't the schools or student bodies, it's the intolerance in the state legislatures.

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A friendly campus doesn’t negate the state laws

VA is taking away transgender protections that had been passed only a couple years ago. It is infuriating

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Have you seen the co-eds in the stands of an SEC game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3qYPGeoA7w&t=5s

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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.

+1 Rice University Asian % is almost 3x general population. PP saying it is a white thing is 1000% wrong. Look at the numbers.

Location is an important factor but not as much as the school itself.

Rice is located in Houston which is the most diverse city in the entire country and has a huge Asian population.

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But is not in the South.

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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

So if you go by that then all the DCUM comments about the south aren’t out of ignorance or jealousy but the hard truths that you only tell people in your family.

DP. The derogatory remarks on DCUM about the south are almost definitely made by transplants to the DC area. There’s nothing they don’t like to $hit on, including this area and any place further south. Miserable people.

you really must clue the rest of us in on your preternatural ability to divine the identities of posters on an anonymous board.

And if you're sh*tting on them, I suppose that makes you a miserable person as well.

^^Transplant alert^^

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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.

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The kids say different.

https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/roe-v-wade-impacts-college-students/
“39% of Prospective Undergrads Say Roe v. Wade Ruling Impacts College Decision
The majority of students oppose the U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade and desire to attend college in a state that legally protects the right to an abortion.”

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That’s still well less than half. Not to mention, some random poll. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but southern universities are only getting more popular.

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Nobody gives a RAT'S ASS about Dobbs. Hell, the whole damn is moving to Texas and Florida and that includes kids going to college. Why do you think the schools in those states are soaring in the rankings and their acceptance rates plummeting? Social media wants you to believe kids care about abortion laws but the application numbers don't lie, what they care about is WARM WEATHER, GOOD FOOTBALL, and HOT COEDS, and that's the DAMN TRUTH!

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What? No one is flocking to southern schools...

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“Hot coeds”? Is it 1983?

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Anonymous wrote:That’s still well less than half. Not to mention, some random poll. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but southern universities are only getting more popular.

More than “Very few families” and not an “overwhelming majority”.

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Anonymous wrote:“Hot coeds”? Is it 1983?

Look at the entertainment industry and the dress and gyrations of female performers. We're told that they're really very intelligent and to not view them as sex symbols, yet ... it's what many people seem to admire in 2022.

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Anonymous wrote:Many kids are being pushed out of their home states - too many applicants willing to prep prep prep… they want a more traditional American experience

This is white flight on a national level. Just admit it. No need to use the word 'traditional" when we all know you mean white.

I don’t think that’s a good analogy. The white kids are more like a poor community being priced out of a gentrifying neighborhood.

White kids literally can’t get into the northern schools any more. And the position of the Asian American community on here seems to be that that is right and good, that higher stats Asian American students have a constitutional right to those seats.

So it’s more than a little rich to cry “racism” when the exact same kids you worked so hard to keep out of elite northern schools go to school somewhere else. What did you expect them to do?

How do you figure that? If anything, it is more difficult for the Asian American community to get into elite/top schools.. I know TJ kids, who would eat anyone in stats AND ECs at several base schools that had to "settle" for UCLA/Michigan level schools when kids who were prancing around at base schools (all White) waltzed into T20 private schools like Brown, Vandy, etc.

Did you account for the influence of ED/Full Pay preference at Brown, et. al?