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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t there statistics that kids end up settling down in the area they went to school?

Are you not worried they will settle down in AL?

Are you not worried about the peers’ quality of education? My DC in 10th grade in a magnet school in AL just had a class in how to use rulers and protractors because kids didn’t know how to use them properly.

Does it not bother you that your DDs will have access to abortions and have a high risk if pregnancy goes wrong?

AL passed a law that allows to arrest librarians if they give access to “wrong” books.

Are you religious? There are more churches here than gas stations. Church is a huge part of the culture here.[/quote]

At Alabama orientation, they actually said they have no expectation or desire for out of state kids stay in Alabama.  That is not the model. They have national recruitment and kids go everywhere for grad/professional programs.[/quote]

As someone who knew the Mayor and Gov in Alabama, they definitely have issues with kids not returning to Alabama for work so that is not true and what an odd thing to project at an orientation.[/quote]

The “Mayor” in Alabama? Anyway, DP, this is true. The “Alabama” school is Auburn, which has more in-state students and does not entice the high stats out of state kids with scholarships the way Alabama does. Alabama’s focus is to establish itself as a research school and obtain grant money. It does this by attracting high stats kids largely from suburbs of large cities (Chicago, NJ suburbs, etc). They don’t want an entirely parochial student body that won’t attract top professors. This is how the university benefits the state, not by having kids stay there to work. They don’t care about that. [/quote]

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