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Originally Posted by atlanta68
And can someone hear please explain to me why significantly more Alabamian first time college students enroll at Auburn vs UA? UA is far prettier, has a better football program, has far better dorms, Greek houses, access to a bigger city, etc. Yet Auburn rules the state again in in-state enrollment. You think the decline in UA's academic rep might play any role in this? How could it not?
Parents want their kids going to the best school, in the best environment. And Auburn is clearly winning that in state battle, DESPITE far more generous UA scholarships for even mediocre in state students. Something is wrong at UA for this to be the reality. Serious responses please, cause I for one want to see the trend reversed!
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I just googled how many in-state students each University has and AU has 16.9K while UA has 16.2. I wouldn't call that dominating us, but I agree with you in that I would like to see that reversed and eventually us blow past them with in-state students. I believe we are doing a better job of recruiting the in-state students and will hopefully see us trend even better over the next few years, but we also unfortunately have a "reputation" when it comes to partying over academic studying. High schoolers of course want to go to Bama to party but unfortunately they aren't the ones paying tuition so the parents look at that and say "no way our kid is going to college to party" and I have heard that very quote from a few parents over the past few years. I agree with you though on previous statements about how we have the better campus, football program (some kids don't care though about that), nightlife, and newer academic and fraternal buildings, as well as a much more generous scholarship plan.
What I have also noticed is that a lot of UA legacies are going to AU because all their friends are going there and that is a tougher trend to shift from. When I was in high school 15 years ago everyone in this town was going to UA, including AU legacies and in a matter of a few short years that trend flip flopped. I'm hoping we can swing back to the "all my friends are going to UA so i want to go and have fun with them".
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