Auburn PNM numbers for 2011?

[Titchou]

I'm not sure. I know the last couple of years the percentage actually pledged is about 55/45 OOS vs IS. They did have that info on their web site so you could check to see if it's still up from last year.

[Eightisgreat]

The increase in Alabama's out of state numbers does not surprise me in the least. Alabama has been doing a fine job of bring in OOS students with their generous scholarships for higher achievers. It makes going OOS much cheaper than staying instate for many students.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Titchou

I'm not sure. I know the last couple of years the percentage actually pledged is about 55/45 OOS vs IS. They did have that info on their web site so you could check to see if it's still up from last year.

Originally Posted by Eightisgreat

The increase in Alabama's out of state numbers does not surprise me in the least. Alabama has been doing a fine job of bring in OOS students with their generous scholarships for higher achievers. It makes going OOS much cheaper than staying instate for many students.

We have great students head to Auburn and Alabama from Georgia every year. I was still surprised to see that the OOS women had become the majority of the Greek system, though. I guess that's a big part of the Alabama experience, and it's good that they know it going in.

I hope that this info puts some minds at ease about it being a big disadvantage to be from out of state.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Eightisgreat

The increase in Alabama's out of state numbers does not surprise me in the least. Alabama has been doing a fine job of bring in OOS students with their generous scholarships for higher achievers. It makes going OOS much cheaper than staying instate for many students.

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?

[UGAalum94]

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?

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.

[NUBlue&Blue]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

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.

Another reason is that the states surrounding Georgia have much smaller population. In 2010, Georgia had 9.6 million people, Alabama 4.7, Louisiana 4.5, and South Carolina had 4.6. I always tell my son that Mississippi reminds me of Nebraska, in that it is a rural state with small towns and less populous, so that's why they recruit out of state students (even though, at 2.9 million, it still has almost twice as many people as Nebraska). Tennessee has 6.3 million people and we don't see as many kids going to UT from our area, but that may not be true of all of Georgia. That's definitely why so many of these schools are targeting and recruiting Georgia. There was a time when people chose those schools above UGA, particularly when I first moved here over 25 years ago, but the establishment of the HOPE scholarship and unbridled population growth changed all that and more kids were staying in state.

[UGAalum94]

And going back a while, tuition generally wasn't as enormous as it is today, so it didn't require a big commitment to choose Auburn over Georgia, even if you were paying for it. (Plus in the olden days, you could set up in-state residency easily.)

I wonder if the Alabama data breaks down how many of the OOS folks are from Georgia.