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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the South and many of the SEC grads around me are living very comfortable lives- professional careers, beautiful homes, private schools for the kids, country club memberships, the second home, etc. the refreshing thing is that many of them aren’t hung up on the Ivies and other Ivy-type schools- it makes for a much more pleasant, normal high school experience for the kids down here. The Ivies and WASP’s and Ivy+ aren’t the only ticket to the “good life”. [/quote]

I work with a guy who is likely one of the 10 richest in Alabama and he sends his kids to Vandy and Princeton and he said most of the kids from the private Hs are attending the same elite private colleges as private schools in the northeast.  Very few of the school’s grads attend Auburn or Alabama (Alabama is 60% OOS).

I don’t think the truly wealthy are much different regardless of where they live.[/quote]

I'm from Alabama and this is a good point. My well regarded public high school had as many Ivy League matriculations as my husband's private New England private school. This was before FGLI was a thing, and most were from high income and socially established families.

But there were an equal number of wealthy and socially well established families whose kids who went on to Alabama and auburn too.

Both sets of kids are now doing well.

People need to stop trying to make this into a false dichotomy [/quote]

Except something doesn’t compute for Alabama…it’s the only flagship with a majority of OOS kids (60%) which doesn’t make much sense to me.  Even Auburn is only 40% OOS.

Something about Alabama turns off a lot of in state folks and I have to believe the wealthiest are most likely to not care about OOS rates.[/quote]

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