This whole conversation is so weird. I don't want to knock Bama but lets not pretend it is an elite university, even in the South. The elite southern colleges are Duke, Vandy, Emory, Rice, Davidson and one or two others. The Southern kids with the smarts and the $ went to these schools or went North for their education. Princeton always had a substantial group of Southerners. Even John C Calhoun, who was as Southern as you can get went to Yale.
This whole conversation is so weird. I don't want to knock Bama but lets not pretend it is an elite university, even in the South. The elite southern colleges are Duke, Vandy, Emory, Rice, Davidson and one or two others. The Southern kids with the smarts and the $ went to these schools or went North for their education. Princeton always had a substantial group of Southerners. Even John C Calhoun, who was as Southern as you can get went to Yale.
And although I was from UF and my grandmother was from Ohio Wesleyan, I cannot begin to tell you how delighted I was once I moved to Alabama that we were both Kappas. Being multi-generation, even though from out of state, still spoke volumes.
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
But if you're going to settle down in Mobile, your general quality of life might be better as a former Phi Delta Theta or a Kappa from Bama than if you were a graduate of Princeton.
It's provincial, sure, but not everyone gives a flip about elite colleges.
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