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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD has received admission to some Southern schools that have these types of demographics, and reading this thread is a little disheartening. But it will be good for her to learn discernment and how to tolerate all kinds of people while still being herself, if anything. We're still waiting on scholarship and financial aid info to decide on where we'll send her.

Does anyone know if SMU has changed since this thread was started?[/quote]

There are still rich people at SMU, but the majority of students are a normal mix, especially outside the Greek system.  SMU gives good merit scholarships, which has drawn a lot of kids who need them.  We have a DS there and the experience has been great.  [/quote]

I went to SMU. We’ve gone back for football games, etc, and my impression is that the student body is more economically diverse than it used to be. The “Commons” system is new since I was there, and I think that’s lessened the importance of the Greek system somewhat. I was one of the “poor” kids when I was at SMU, but I had a great time, and some of the richest kids I knew there were the nicest. TBH, it was the “sort of” rich that were the snobs. The upside of the wealth is that they are generous with financial and merit aid, the campus is beautiful, and the building continues. Every alumni magazine I get has multiple stories about 8 and 9 figure donations for new buildings and programs (the most recent has three). SMU is fairly unique in that there aren’t that many medium-sized universities in the middle of a big city that have very traditional, safe, campuses. Dallas is booming, and I think SMU is a school on the rise. [/quote]

They ever going to get their football program back?

https://time.com/3720498/ncaa-smu-death-penalty/

Clearly, I am old, but how competitive is SMU in admissions? Back in my day (the early '90's) it was respectable, but classed as for rich kids that didn't get into UT or A&M. [/quote]

Classic DCUM. Info 30 years out of date and focused on how “competitive” admissions are above all else.

(FYI — there were no rich kids who went to SMU because they didn’t get into UT & A&M in the 90’s.  SMU wasn’t that hard to get into back then, but — unless you had a parent that was a rabid alum and wouldn’t pay for you to go anywhere else — everyone applied to either UT & A&M as their fallback. The smart, quirky, kids went to Rice & only went to UT if they got into Plan II). [/quote]

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