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Why are Northern Kids Flocking to Southern Universities?
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Anonymous
Different poster, At first i didn’t believe the above so I looked up the data on the nyt article on top 1a% kids and where they go to school and was shocked to find that Bama , auburn and uga almost had CU-Boulder level concentration of 1% kids on campus https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html Crazy North east publics (Pitt, Penn state) have half or one third the concentration |
Anonymous
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It’s 100% because they can party their butts off and still get passing grades.
Southern universities are the mythological fun college experience with football and frats and sororities that party and drink like fish. And classes are easy so you can do it all. I know, I grew up down south and had friends at every single one of these schools. Many of those friends’ kids now go to those same schools. Serious students, both then and now, rarely go to Clemson, Bama and Auburn and never go to Ole Miss or LSU unless forced by family tradition. UGA gets more of a mix as they have always had good honors programs but the really smart driven kids down south go to GA Tech, Vandy, W&L and Duke. |
Anonymous
No she’s a D1 gymnast. |
Anonymous
The SHOW Yellowstone |
Anonymous
That’s not why she’s famous. 🍑 |
Anonymous
That gal is far prettier, smarter, and more talented (D1 gymnast) than the hideous Kardashian skanks. |
Anonymous
It's not just the body, she's adorable. Her face is angelic. Naturally I might add. |
Anonymous
| The multi-millionaire Morning Joe host, Joe, sent his boy(s) to Alabama too. I'm safely assuming Joe has the connections to send his kids to Ivies or Georgetown, if he really wanted. Nope. His rich kids wanted that southern university experience. |
Anonymous
| My daughter went south for college (Florida) for the weather. For the most part, the school year is during the best part of the season. It's still hot in August and September, but October through April is pretty nice. And she's done in early May. My other daughter wants to go somewhere cold. She hates the heat. |
Anonymous
Jersey girls are the finest in the world 
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Anonymous
Which one is more conventionally hotter? |
Anonymous
Yet, those skanks have become billionaires with zero actual talent She isn’t worth the money because of her gymnastics, hon. It is all about her social media following, which is because she fuels little boys wet dreams with booty shots |
Anonymous
| We are touring schools in the northeast and southeast. Southern schools are prettier, less expensive, and because of athletics driving funding, surprisingly resource rich. It’s hard to justify the cost of some of the northeast schools when we are getting better resources at state schools. And in honor programs our kid will be in small class sizes and have amazing opportunities. She likes the idea of prestigious schools, but for the value and opportunity, she may end up down south. If you haven’t toured somewhere like alabama, auburn, Georgia or ole miss, you might be surprised. And you also might be surprised at the acceptance rate and requirements at somewhere like Georgia or Georgia tech. |
Anonymous
Going to a southern university can be a very good choice for some students. But being in an honors program does not mean all your classes will be small, and what's so "amazing" about the opportunities compared to strong schools in the northeast? Plus, you can't generalize about southern universities being more "resource rich" than northeastern schools, especially since some of the latter have huge endowments and more spending per pupil. |
Anonymous
Wisconsin is equally hard oos as UF and UGA |