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Originally Posted by amIblue?
Except, my experience at Tennessee was that a ton of students attended Tennessee who are from Georgia, the Georgia kids that I worked with were more often likely as not to be trying to get into Tennessee (the fact that I had attended UT was serendipitous), and now this same demographic is having a more difficult time getting in because of the Hope Scholarship now being in place in Tennessee. My expectation is that UT is going to be increasingly challenging from an admissions standpoint, just as has happened with UGA. I have no clue as to what's happening at UK, even though I am friends with some alums.
LOVE the old school photo!
More bid lists, please!
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I understand. The state of Georgia is pretty much "just south" of Knoxville. As such, it would be expected that a good number of out of state students at Tennessee would come from an adjoining state like Georgia. A majority of Kentucky’s out of state students come from her boarder states as well – Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana to name a few. However, Kentucky has seen increases in students from all over as well partly due to higher admissions standards and the proximity to their home states/towns. Lexington is located within 600 miles of two-thirds of the U.S. population. So for some who might like the so called “SEC experience” UK provides an attractive choice.
All that is good and well. However, and I may be way off base (it won’t be the first time, nor the last), I interpreted barbino's comments to be directed toward or about the NPC recruitment experience at UK and UT and how that compared to other SEC schools.
My position is that as the admission standards increased at UT and UK, more “quality” out-of-state students enroll (as you noted at UT). Add to that, many in-state students – who might have elected to attend college out of state – are also staying in state (again as you noted at UT). Thus the overall “credentials” of the PNM pool might be considered “better”. And because they are overachievers, these PNMs are - again generally speaking - more competitive than their predecessors.
Now add that many of these out of state students come from areas where the so called “uber-competitiveness” recruitment is the norm. Then over time, the recruitment experiences at UK and UT become even more competitive. More along the lines of some of the other SEC schools.
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And yeah, I love the "Family Portrait". It is from around 1969 so it needs to be updated.
) who attend that school down in Knoxville around the same time - both schools didn't always get a lot of students from other states within the SEC footprint - like Georgia, Florida or Alabama. However, I happened to know quite a few Mississippians who attended Kentucky. Go figure. 
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