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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The demand seems to be for big warm climate schools. [/quote]

+1. Presumably rich preppy kids don't want to live in the isolated, cold, grey, and declining Rust Belt? It's not like you can keep it a secret how awesome the warm weather South and coasts are from sheltered Midwest kids anymore. They have snapchat, tiktok, youtube, and instagram.[/quote]

For goodness sake, the South was never any kind of "secret."  I grew up in suburban Chicago and did not know one kid who hadn't been to Florida at least once on vacation (most had gone many times).  Granted, I didn't know anyone who had gone on vacation to Alabama or Mississippi, but then again, why the heck would they have?  We knew how backwards they were. [/quote]

Visiting grandma's retirement condo in Fort Myers is not the same as access to millions of first-person vlogs from attractive kids at SEC, ACC, and California schools. Kids are wiser than ever. Southern college kids are not seen as "backwards," they're attractive and soaking up the sun and distinct fun culture of their location and university. Backwards is willingly spending four years of the prime of your life in the depressing Rust Belt where you have to wear a $800 parka until April.[b] If you're not going to live in Ohio (or Michigan or Indiana) after college, why in the hell would you go to college there?[/b][/quote]

I went to Case Western and kind-of felt the same way during undergrad.  The education I received was decent but I couldn't wait to get out of Cleveland and often wondered what I was doing there.  [/quote]

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