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Originally Posted by 33girl
Silly question...
are they doing this (i.e. big ol' scholarships) because not enough students from Alabama are going there, or why? Do they want to diversify the student body?
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It pulls their average data up by attracting strong kids from out of state. The scholarships that I'm familiar with have both high GPA and high test score ranges associated with them, so you might move on up in the college rankings some.
Some of the in-state Alabama kids are equally as strong, so I'm not slighting them, but they really reward high achieving out of state kids.
ETA: the more I think about it, the more I think SEC schools tend to do this almost across the board. I have former students at LSU, Ole Miss, Auburn and Alabama, and South Carolina who were all wooed with sweet out of state scholarship deals. UGA doesn't offer it too much, I don't think, because the regular admissions stuff has gotten so competitive and I think if they started admitting out of state kids over well qualified in-state kids, the general assembly might freak out over funding.
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