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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wealthy town . Observation SEC schools are a huge magnet for kids not in the top 25% of high school class. Those kids have absolutely nil interest in going to Syracuse. Spend a football weekend at Bama, UGa, UFlorida or Texas. Contrast that with football at SU and the Dome.[/quote]

Fiction…..and the numbers prove it. Very few students who could get into a solid NE university are heading south. The relatively few that do would have attended non-selective state schools. I guess Old Miss might be attractive if the alternative is UMass Dartmouth but not for anyone with UMass Amherst as an option.[/quote]

You show us the numbers. If you're accusing other people of fiction, you better be able to back yourself up.

I've watched this shift in the last 20 years. The affluent kid, especially males, who'd have gone to Kenyon or Hamilton or Colby now seems more likely to go a big southern or midwestern school. I've seen the instagrams of the local high schools, public and private, and can compare to my own private high school class in the 1990s. LACs have lost a lot of popularity. Even many of the girls are going south / big state university.

People aren't applying to Kenyon and Hamilton and South Carolina and Miami and Alabama, they're applying to one or the other. It's called self-segregation, like everything else in our lives these days. [/quote]

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