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Anonymous wrote:But it’s warmer in the south! DCUMER’s are scared of the snow.

Still wearing shorts to class, while kids up north are freezing.

Mine much prefers the cold, always hot. To each his own. The heat can be a killer.

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Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.

Not true anymore. The top SEC schools like UGA can now compete with Michigan.

And GATech compete with MIT.

GT lost to Pitt lol

They didn’t lose in engineering.

Anonymous wrote:But it’s warmer in the south! DCUMER’s are scared of the snow.

Still wearing shorts to class, while kids up north are freezing.

So, my kid picked Pitt over South Carolina. We would have been perfectly happy if he picked South Carolina. My wife and I thought he was going to SC for the longest time. It has his first choice for almost 10 months. Pitt has less of a Greek presence which was my son's deciding factor.

For those of you that hate on SC without every setting foot on campus. It has a campus and is in a city and overall, it is pretty nice campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.

Not true anymore. The top SEC schools like UGA can now compete with Michigan.

And GATech compete with MIT.

GT lost to Pitt lol

Very interesting to me as I got my Master's in Library and Information Science at the Univ. of South Carolina in 1996, I was there on in-state tuition as a part of the Academic Common Market since my home state didn't have Library Science in state. The MLIS program was a good program. It was a unique program in that Master's student were the sole focus as they didn't have a PHD at the time and there wasn't an Undergrad degree, they did teach a few children's literature cases for education majors. The state at the time required school librarians to have an MLS or MLIS at the time. I would have never chosen it for Undergrad and if I could have swung the out of state tuition after going to a small Pennsylvania LAC I would have gone to Pitt that I also got into for Library Science.

My DS is in the business school at SC. Loves it.

Got a $16k/ scholarship that makes it the same as in state at VT. Better ranked first year experience too. He seemed to have a better time than some of his other friends he has at other popular schools around here.

Strong business program and he has lots of friends from up and down the East Coast. His best friends are from NH, Maryland and Charlotte.

Didn’t have to go Greek either. Yes the state politics are MAGA and repulsive, but to be honest, it doesn’t really impact him day to day, any more than it does for me in NOVA. The school is a mix of Dems and republicans. (I was worried about it, but it has been a non-issue.).

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/why-young-americans-are-shunning-elite-universities-for-the-deep-south-2ktn6fmv2

Interesting article suggesting they have been working for 20 years to get the results seen in the past five years. Enrollment over 40,000, 46% increase.

That makes it seem more sustainable and less like a fad. Even my skeptical nature wonders if this is more of a permanent shift in attitudes towards SEC institutions.

These families are insane! Have they ever visited the South?!? It’s completely MAGA down there!

You have never visited the south

DP. I lived there for 15 years, went to college there, and finally moved back north. Stop lying to yourself.

+1.

The south is total MAGA-country.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/why-young-americans-are-shunning-elite-universities-for-the-deep-south-2ktn6fmv2

Interesting article suggesting they have been working for 20 years to get the results seen in the past five years. Enrollment over 40,000, 46% increase.

That makes it seem more sustainable and less like a fad. Even my skeptical nature wonders if this is more of a permanent shift in attitudes towards SEC institutions.

These families are insane! Have they ever visited the South?!? It’s completely MAGA down there!

You have never visited the south

DP. I lived there for 15 years, went to college there, and finally moved back north. Stop lying to yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/why-young-americans-are-shunning-elite-universities-for-the-deep-south-2ktn6fmv2

Interesting article suggesting they have been working for 20 years to get the results seen in the past five years. Enrollment over 40,000, 46% increase.

That makes it seem more sustainable and less like a fad. Even my skeptical nature wonders if this is more of a permanent shift in attitudes towards SEC institutions.

These families are insane! Have they ever visited the South?!? It’s completely MAGA down there!

You have never visited the south

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Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.

Not true anymore. The top SEC schools like UGA can now compete with Michigan.

And GATech compete with MIT.

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Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.

This is why people hate “the elites” because you think a flagship SEC school is less than the ones you mentioned.

They are not, they have an amazing top student body comparable to those you think are more elite.

Same with Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, etc.

You’re blinded by the bubble

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Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.

Not true anymore. The top SEC schools like UGA can now compete with Michigan.

Currently I think PP is correct though I think the margin between these school (except maybe Stanford) is decreasing each year. The stats of SEC schools have been raising with their increased popularity.

Anonymous wrote:Shift to SEC schools. These are very well-run schools as a group. They have a lot of sports money and almost all are making investments in teaching, research and capital improvements. In contrast to the Big 10 who are squabbling over their private equity investments (Michigan threatening to leave) and schools like Chicago, Northwestern and Stanford laying off and addressing massive financial issues.

To what are you referring ?

I like SEC & Big Ten universities. However, comparing SEC schools to U Michigan, Stanford, Northwestern, and to U Chicago reveals a lack of familiarity with higher education in the US.