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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously why are people looking or choosing OOS Alabama? It’s one of the lowest ranked schools and keeps declining. What am I missing?[/quote]

High levels of merit aid for academically qualified kids.  Especially if your kid is planning on graduate school (where they can chase a "name"), getting through undergrad for less money is a huge draw.  There is a good honors college, and a motivated kid can get a good education there.

Is it Harvard?  No.  But it's not a clown college either, and it's not like they lock you in the state after graduation.[/quote]

But this means kids and parents are just incredibly lazy in looking at schools.  LSU, Oregon, Iowa, Iowa State, South Carolina..the list is actually fairly extensive...they all give high levels of merit for academically qualified kids.[/quote]

Not automatically, like Alabama.  And the idea that a student is "incredibly lazy" for applying to a school that advertises its aid policies clearly instead of applying to every state school in the nation in the hopes that something will stick is pretty much diametrically opposed to the usual DCUM standard trope that "fit" is all that matters.  Is a family "incredibly lazy" if they haven't visited Iowa, Oregon, Louisiana and South Carolina to decide if they want to go to school there?  Get real.

I didn't go to Alabama, wouldn't send my (not white) kids there, and low key hate the SEC, but this anti-Alabama trend on DCUM seems like sour grapes to me.  If you put all of your eggs in the T25 basket, anything outside of those schools getting attention takes away from what you perceive as your kid's superiority.  You want your choices to be universally recognized as the right ones, and since you wouldn't choose a big state school in the South, people who do must be wrong.  It's childish.[/quote]

You are incorrect...places like Iowa and Iowa State are even more automatic and transparent.  The other schools anyone that spends two seconds researching it will determine that they offer merit aid to most kids based on different metrics

Look, if a kid wants to go to Alabama that's great (and they likely didn't visit either but only applied because of what you describe as the transparent aid), but yes they are lazy if in fact they really wanted a school ranked much higher but didn't bother to spend anytime to see that other schools are equally and even more generous.

BTW...I mentioned LSU and South Carolina which last I checked...are in big state schools in the South.[/quote]

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