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The same thing has happened here in Tennessee since we got the Hope scholarship. so many of the top students are staying in state and going to UT that a lot of kids with pretty good grades and test scores can't get in. Many of them go to our regional schools and those have grown like crazy, but the ones who want the SEC experience go elsewhere. At first, Auburn and Ole Miss were the top choices but Alabama has overtaken them recently, probably partly as a result of football's success and partly because they have substantially grown their university and marketed themselves well.
If Alabama were to get a lottery and offer free tuition for in state kids it would be interesting to see if the same situation would develop there, with 2 big SEC school in a state of that size.
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