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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or, it could be because the schools are cheaper and sometimes easier to get into. [/quote]

Huh.  On my DC block alone, we have current students at: Vandy, Tulane, Rice, Charleston and Clemson.

Which of these are the cheap ones, again?

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Sounds like a lot philistines and kids frozen out of t15s

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Vanderbilt and Rice are both T15 schools. They are both more highly ranked than Columbia, Cornell, Berkeley, Notre Dame, UCLA, Georgetown, Michigan and so on and so forth. It's not just rubes, philistines, and sorority girls who are choosing to go to school in the south. And I don't think the kids going to Duke, Vandy, or Rice are particularly influenced by TikTok. It is possible to get a very good education in the South.[/quote]

Kind of, but the South still heavily lags behind the northeast. The only school I’ve seen people consistently pick over Ivies when having the choice is Duke, otherwise even top kids from the south leave to go to an ivy.[/quote]

+1 The Northeast schools' applications are still by far outpacing the South.  Everywhere is getting more applications--and fewer people can get into the most competitive Northeast schools so more are going further afield. [/quote]

Number of “applications” is not a good way to measure this. What matter is the actual number of *students* applying & where they are enrolling. Students who are applying to schools in the Ivy League submit many more applications than kids in the South that are going to their state flagship. I know students in Georgia, for example, who applied early to Georgia and Georgia Tech, got into one or both and were done. They knew they weren’t going to turn down free tuition at these excellent schools.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/common-app-high-sat-private-school-application-increase/638459/[/quote]

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