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Originally Posted by UHDEEGEE
I wouldn't make this assumption at all. My son has the smarts and the $ and is being heavily recruited already for Fall of 2010 by Columbia, Emory and Rice to name a few, yet he has narrowed his top two choices to 2 state SEC schools.
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I would agree, although it's a fairly recent phenomenon. My Southern HS regularly sends kids to the Ivies/Stanford/MIT, but a good number of the kids who are accepted to an Ivy and a Florida school will often pick the Florida school because of Bright Futures. Also, family tradition and the fact that most of one's friends are headed to Tuscaloosa or Gainesville often sways the kids.
If the statistics still bear out from the 1998-1999 school year, the majority of students at Duke, Vandy, Rice, and Emory are from the Northeast.
