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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree 100% with this prior post. The generous scholarship options based on GPA and test scores are what got us to consider it and the campus tour sold us. Honors students are impressive. Love that my son has grad school effectively paid for from undergrad savings. His roommates - first AND second year - are 70% from Northern states (first year was randomly assigned). Just go visit - we were not expecting to like it and both my husband and I (who are not big sports fans) loved it and DS is science major and completely thriving

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The knee-jerk reactions in this thread are not accurate. Unlikely that one will hear racist talk of any kind at any time while on campus.

FACT: The majority of students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa are not residents of Alabama.

U Alabama's Honors College offers students a solid education.

The Alabama beaches are gorgeous & welcoming. For decades, U Alabama's largest alumni group is based in NYC.[/quote]

Why are the majority of students at a state school not state residents?[/quote]

Because there's not as much money in admitting in state students. North Carolina has the right approach here.[/quote]

That doesn’t answer it…Auburn is 60% in state…LSU and Ole Miss are 80% in state…UGA is 80% in state…Alabama is the complete outlier of all these southern schools.

The reason this thread exists is because Alabama is throwing money at OOS kids…so it’s definitely not making the state money.[/quote]

Of course it makes them money.  They charge more than 3x the in-state tuition to out-of-state students. They can give a $10k annual merit scholarship to oos and still generate double the revenue per seat.  They can give a large scholarship to top oos students that makes it equal to in-state tuition, and in exchange, they get SAT and GPA stats that improve the school's ranking for the same price as the less academic in-state students.  [/quote]

The University of Alabama is a big school. But the pool of smart high school students in Alabama is fairly small. This isn't California. Alabama has some of the worst school districts in the country. The university had to decide - be a big dumb school for poorly educated instate students. Or be a quality university that takes a majority of students from out of state. They chose the latter option. And overall, that probably works better for them financially even if they are giving a lot of merit. [/quote]

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