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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alabama has a much better academic community due to having the nation's most generous, high-profile guaranteed merit scholarships attracting top talent from across the US.

Especially given how insane admissions has been recently, with many top students not getting into top schools, a significant number of them end up at Bama.[/quote]

I have a kid at Alabama -- my kid, and all kids friends at Alabama, got into Ivies, T25s, etc. but still chose Alabama. They don't go there because they don't get in anywhere else, they go there b/c Alabama caters to super high achievers and gives amazing merit scholarships to the tippy top kids.

Kids we know that are attending T25s don't even have the stats to get top merit at Alabama. You need perfect ACT, SAT (no super score) plus perfect GPA. OR to be a National Merit Finalist -- these kids are getting full rides, or near full rides at Alabama. Most of these kids are pre-med, pre-law, or in STEM to MBA program and will graduate in 5 years as engineers with their MBA. Plus Alabama takes ALL of your AP credits -- so many of these kids get to skip over the basics and go straight to upper level courses. My kid started as a junior.

Agree with the other poster that Alabama is better choice than Auburn for the super smart kids. We visited both and Auburn didn't come close to comparing to Alabama in terms of opportunities for top students (undergraduate research, Blount, Randall, etc. at Alabama - all very impressive).[/quote]

+1 (exactly!)[/quote]

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