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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
That helps, but the fact that Georgia, Florida and other states offer their students free tuition is one of the big reasons.
It's great that they get free tuition (paid for by lotteries), but that means the in-state schools now have their choice of students...thus they can be pickier about the GPAs they'll accept.
Which means they fill up their freshman classes with higher-achieving students...leaving those with lower grades (and sometimes only slightly lower) out in the cold, and forced to attend an out-of-state school unless they want to go the private school route...
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There is a problem at Bama in regards to the Greek system with these various states offering free tuition. As stated many students who couldn't get accepted to their home state school due to GPA will attend Bama. Then they work really hard, make excellent grades, and transfer back to a home state school for free or cheaper tuition than UA.
Is it huge numbers? No. However it affects sorority membership. It can be hard on a chapter if 5+ key members transfer in a year. (I've seen it happen.) This is also one of the reasons I have heard why many chapters is places like GA do not allow transfer members to affiliate. There are simply too many of them.
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