Auburn vs Alabama

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Anonymous wrote:Some are… kind of. Cornell?

MIT is private & land grant

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Bama’s campus is huge. It just keeps on going. There is a long strip of fast food restaurants & chain retail stores leading up to the campus, a much smaller cluster of stores/bars/restaurants adjacent to campus, & the actual downtown Tuscaloosa is not far away. The far more charming Auburn campus is adjacent to the small downtown area. Auburn just seems more pleasant & manageable, though both are far better than the tunnel-vision progressives here want to admit.

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Anonymous wrote:Some are… kind of. Cornell?

MIT is private & land grant

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does UGA compare to Auburn?

UGA is gigantic. We were overwhelmed. We much preferred the compactness of Auburn. The student sat Auburn were also more friendly and welcoming.

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Also want to add that it rains. A lot. Son heading down to Auburn in the fall and all the locals have warned us to make sure he is prepared for a lot of rain and a lot of crazy storms. We have been keeping an eye on the weather this year to get a sense and wow, they are not joking about the rain and storms. This applies to both Auburn and Bama. Also dorms have had mold issues because of humidity and dampness. Make sure whichever your kid picks to send them with an air purifier and a dehumidifier. We will be sending him with both.

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Anonymous wrote:Some are… kind of. Cornell?

MIT is private & land grant

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

According to the MIT wikipedia article, they are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

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Anonymous wrote:Some are… kind of. Cornell?

MIT is private & land grant

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

According to the MIT wikipedia article, they are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

No mention here of MIT from an academic source: https://u.osu.edu/gavazzi.1/2018/05/11/americas-land-grant-universities-who-are-they-where-are-they/

[Anonymous]

I think it makes more sense to compare Alabama to Tennessee, South Carolina, Ole Miss, etc. Auburn is probably more comparable to Clemson.

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Anonymous wrote:I think DCUM posters will feel totally at home at Alabama, which has seen fit to include Black players on their football team every year all the way back to 1971. Or as Shane Gillis has pointed out, only two years AFTER the U.S. had landed on the moon.

Here’s the 1969 team photo for UVA:



Here’s 1970:



So Alabama integrated their football team one year behind UVA?

FWIW, Auburn integrated their football team in 1969, one year ahead of UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure, base you kid's college decision on a couple of wackos you don't like. We can find similar wackos at all schools. E.g. Trump and Penn/Wharton.

But ok....

I visited both last year. Alabama has a lot to offer. Beautiful campus with new buildings and old traditional buildings. A good student would do well. I was impressed, and I previously was a northern school SLAC snob.

Alabama much more sprawling. Only campus where our tour was by bus.

Alabama gives very generous merit aid, if you need that.

Auburn much more compact and walkable. Felt more like a community. But less diverse.

Auburn has a better reputation.

DS chose Auburn.

You can visit both in same day. So go visit.

Now that Alabama is essentially free for good out of state stunts, I think that will shift. Coming from Virginia, it's hard to Auburn when Alabama comes with 28k of merit guaranteed

Auburn also offers merit aid to OOS students, although a lesser amount than Alabama. It ranges from $17,000-$7,000 a year, depending on stats.

https://www.auburn.edu/scholarship/undergraduate/competitive-merit.php

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it makes more sense to compare Alabama to Tennessee, South Carolina, Ole Miss, etc. Auburn is probably more comparable to Clemson.

Agree but add South Carolina with Auburn and Clemson.

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Anonymous wrote:As far as Auburn kids being a notch classier than UGA (and 2 notches classier than Alabama), this is just something I’ve observed over the years. I have one child who went to UGA and one who picked Auburn over UGA for engineering. We live in Georgia, so the pull to UGA is huge because of the Zell/Hope scholarship. My kids’ friends who picked Auburn were just more kind, down to earth, and generally more religious. Of course, partying is rampant on both campuses. But, UGA is on a different level with 80+ bars drawing the kids in every night of the week. I guess I’ve just seen too many pics of UGA girls walking around half-clothed and carrying gallon jugs of alcohol at Darty’s. Lol

I have family members who attended both schools, and I do think Athens is more of a party town than Auburn, and the campus is larger and more impersonal. Not that there isn't partying at Auburn -- the tailgate scene is pretty intense. This may sound corny, but the Auburn grads talk about the "Auburn family," and IME, it's true. If you see an Auburn grad see someone wearing Auburn gear in any city in the US (or the world), you'll think they know each other. I've had the experience of saying watching this and saying "Who was that?" and the Auburn grad says "I don't know. I've never seen them before in my life."

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Anonymous wrote:Some are… kind of. Cornell?

MIT is private & land grant

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

According to the MIT wikipedia article, they are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

No mention here of MIT from an academic source: https://u.osu.edu/gavazzi.1/2018/05/11/americas-land-grant-universities-who-are-they-where-are-they/

Other than in this sentence: "The original land-grant institutions founded as the result of the 1862 Morrill Act include such prominent names as Cornell, MIT, Penn State, Rutgers, Ohio State, Texas A&M, West Virginia, and the University of California

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it makes more sense to compare Alabama to Tennessee, South Carolina, Ole Miss, etc. Auburn is probably more comparable to Clemson.

Is UGA better than all of these?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it makes more sense to compare Alabama to Tennessee, South Carolina, Ole Miss, etc. Auburn is probably more comparable to Clemson.

Auburn parent and this tracks.