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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am from the South and am very familiar with Auburn. It seems to have really caught on in other places. I am genuinely asking--what is the fascination?[/quote]

Seriously what is it with this school and on this board?? Different poster.[/quote]

I have never visited Auburn, but people who have rave about it.

What I think is attractive is all the other people applying to these large, larger, southern and SEC type “fun” schools that are still a great education and relatively affordable compared to similar schools in the northeast.

Plus, Auburn is pretty strong academically (relative to some other large southern school choices) and gives great merit for the right stats. [/quote]

I am the first one who asked. I actually have family (in-law) there and yes, the campus is pretty. [b]Just a generation ago[/b], you only needed a pulse and a social security number to get in, and now it seems to be all the rage. Fascinating how they have been able to capture what's going on with the SEC schools, etc. It is "fun" but also, IMHO a little more small town and you get a lot of Southern culture there (being religious is mainstream, e.g.), etc. It's also like the Va Tech of AL so more of a STEM school so maybe that is what certain people are looking for?

[b]I am sure the culture is changing with all of the OOS interest[/b]--I am just wondering how all of a sudden it seems to be so popular among people who may end up feeling like fish out of water there (maybe not [b]given how many OOS students they seem to be admitting/courting[/b]). [/quote]

So much can change in a generation! Especially when a school is actively seeking to draw more of a national student body rather than a solely regional student body.

For example, I went to Duke in the 1990s. My alumni interviewer was my parents' age, and it felt like he was talking about a completely different school than the one I visited. His experience in the late 1960s was of a regional school with far less academic rigor and a student body almost exclusively from the southeast. By 1990, it was already a very national school.

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