TikTok is driving the increase in popularity for southern schools

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Anonymous wrote:No, it’s because they offer instate tuition to kids from our area.

This! Good grades and Alabama can be more affordable than many in-state flagships. If your kid wants greek life, football/basketball environment then it can be a good affordable big school experience

It’s funny how every discussion about southern colleges circles back to Bama as the example. I think it’s because the DC world isn’t threatened by Bama and can reassure themselves that’s it “only the cheap tuition” and “it’s easy to get into.” They then don’t have to discuss that the Bama merit aid program is actually an outlier (even in the South) and have to think about what might be attracting students to all those other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:As a resident in MA where southern schools are not of much interest….are these schools mostly white? Sports centric? I recall a threat on UNC that discussed posters DCs regularly heard the N-word mentioned. Honestly shocking. Not to be antagonistic but perhaps the #s a police to NE are actually sensible.

No. I think this is a common misperception among northeasterners. The southeast as a region has more black people than any other region of the US. Southeast is 19% black whereas the northeast is 11% black, Midwest 10% black, west coast 4% black, etc. SEC schools as a whole are 18% black, which is higher than most colleges nationally. To your other question: yes, the southern schools tend to be more sports centric.

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Anonymous wrote:As a resident in MA where southern schools are not of much interest….are these schools mostly white? Sports centric? I recall a threat on UNC that discussed posters DCs regularly heard the N-word mentioned. Honestly shocking. Not to be antagonistic but perhaps the #s a police to NE are actually sensible.

MA (as well as the rest of New England) public universities are obscenely overpriced there for both instate & out-of-state students. You guys should really do something about that.

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Anonymous wrote:As a resident in MA where southern schools are not of much interest….are these schools mostly white? Sports centric? I recall a threat on UNC that discussed posters DCs regularly heard the N-word mentioned. Honestly shocking. Not to be antagonistic but perhaps the #s a police to NE are actually sensible.

No. I think this is a common misperception among northeasterners. The southeast as a region has more black people than any other region of the US. Southeast is 19% black whereas the northeast is 11% black, Midwest 10% black, west coast 4% black, etc. SEC schools as a whole are 18% black, which is higher than most colleges nationally. To your other question: yes, the southern schools tend to be more sports centric.

I mean yes I agree with a lot of northerners think of the south/southern schools as all white and that’s a misconception but the colleges and universities in the south (that aren’t HBCU, of course) are still technically “mostly” white just as practically every college/university in the country is mostly white.

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Further evidence that TikTok is manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party to undermine the future of America.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think Alabama rushtok is a huge negative to a lot of people.

But probably not to those who subscribe to TikTok.

My junior daughter is on tik tok a lot, but Bama Rush was a huge negative for her. Minimal or zero Greek presence is one of her top college criteria.

I am curious whether you have enough self-awareness to realize that’s deviant of normal behavior, right? That’s highly unusual that going out of your way to not have Greek life would actually be a criterion. And yet you say it like you think it’s a virtue or something.

The masses are definitely influenced by the marketing of sororities in TT though

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Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be that the South has warm weather, jobs, and affordable homes

And very photogenic sorority girls

yeah that's why to pick a college...then again it's Alabama...

I love how everyone here assumes any reference to “Southern” universities refers solely to Alabama. There are other state universities, and (I know this is shocking to you) many private universities in the South. Every one I’m aware of has seen an increase in applications over the past few years.

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Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into.

Huh. On my DC block alone, we have current students at: Vandy, Tulane, Rice, Charleston and Clemson.

Which of these are the cheap ones, again?

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Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into.

Huh. On my DC block alone, we have current students at: Vandy, Tulane, Rice, Charleston and Clemson.

Which of these are the cheap ones, again?

Sounds like a lot philistines and kids frozen out of t15s

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I totally agree with this - and include any school below the mason dixon line as a “Southern School”

‘bama, UVa, Fla, Vandy, Duke, Clemson, Ole Miss

all in that pool

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Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into.

Lol!!! Not cheaper. I wish.

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Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into.

Huh. On my DC block alone, we have current students at: Vandy, Tulane, Rice, Charleston and Clemson.

Which of these are the cheap ones, again?

Sounds like a lot philistines and kids frozen out of t15s

Vanderbilt and Rice are both T15 schools. They are both more highly ranked than Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, Notre Dame, UCLA, Georgetown, Michigan and so on and so forth. It's not just rubes, philistines, and sorority girls who are choosing to go to school in the south. And I don't think the kids going to Duke, Vandy, or Rice are particularly influenced by TikTok. It is possible to get a very good education in the South.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into.

Huh. On my DC block alone, we have current students at: Vandy, Tulane, Rice, Charleston and Clemson.

Which of these are the cheap ones, again?

Sounds like a lot philistines and kids frozen out of t15s

Vanderbilt and Rice are both T15 schools. They are both more highly ranked than Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, Notre Dame, UCLA, Georgetown, Michigan and so on and so forth. It's not just rubes, philistines, and sorority girls who are choosing to go to school in the south. And I don't think the kids going to Duke, Vandy, or Rice are particularly influenced by TikTok. It is possible to get a very good education in the South.

Kind of, but the South still heavily lags behind the northeast. The only school I’ve seen people consistently pick over Ivies when having the choice is Duke, otherwise even top kids from the south leave to go to an ivy.

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Of course schools like Duke Emory GT are popular