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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People keep blaming the “demographic cliff” for enrollment declines, but schools in the SEC and other popular schools have had enrollment increases.

The schools that are being hurt are the too expensive for what they’re worth, like Elon and Syracuse. [/quote]

People talk "on average". The enrollment decline will eventually happen at these SEC schools as well. It's related to the actual number of college eligible people. That number is declining due to trending lower fertility rates. It's not fiction it's fact. Newsflash people have been have fewer kids. [/quote]

The Southern states have growing populations and economies and popularity. As real estate is all about location, location, location, so are colleges. Just as the population decline isn't likely to affect Harvard, population declines aren't uniform nationally. And in this day and age of mobility, people are also self-segregating to a greater degree than in the past.

What's not really being commented because people are afraid to mention it is that southern SEC schools have also become popular nationally for offering a pragmatic and relaxed college experience that shies away from ideologies. Many students who'd have happily gone to northern universities and LACs in the 1990s are now going to the SECs, especially the boys. I live in an affluent Maryland suburb and the change is notable. The sons and daughters of people who went to the NESCAC, people who consider themselves moderate to conservative, are increasingly going south over northern schools. One of my interns last year went to Alabama and he's from Connecticut and I asked what made him go south and he echoed the same thing I heard from others, low key (aka no politics) fun time. And he's a great guy. [/quote]

There are suburbs and exurbs in the NE that have a lot in common socially and culturally with the ones in the South.  Makes sense there are kids in them that would find Southern schools appealing.  But [b]the ones that get into NESCAC schools aren’t going south unless the schools are GT, Duke, Rice and Vanderbilt, [/b]maybe UT.[/quote]

Baloney. Remember, NESCAC includes trinity (30% admission) and Connecticut (37%) And Bates (15%)

I offer you Davidson (12%) , SMU, Trinity San Antonio for the bros (26%) college of charleston, Wake (21%), Emory (12%) and Tulane (14%).

20% of W&L (14% admission rate) students come from the Northeast

There’s definitely prep school overlap attending these schools 
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