Out of State? You CAN have a successful recruitment at Alabama

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Even putting the sorority business aside for a moment, I'm just interested in the fact that Alabama is attracting so many out-of-state students. I know my daughter received about 10-15 admissions PR items from them during her college search window.

It's all about the automatic scholarships. If you have a 32 on the ACT and above a certain GPA (3.75 maybe? Don't remember off hand), you have an automatic free ride. HaloStar considered it, for a minute, until he talked to my brother who discouraged it. He thinks my son would have a very hard time fitting in there.

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Many students want to stay in Michigan, but the job market is not strong. It depends on the field. Michigan is #2 in the country when it comes to "native born" residents. People want to stay, but often they have to leave. And very few people are moving here. There used to be a saying during the early 80s recession, "last one out of Michigan, turn off the lights!"

That being said, the University of Michigan attracts many out-of-state students, and Michigan is not generous with student aid. They don't have to be. They lure in the full payers.

We've heard that here too. When we had our statewide luncheon in Michigan last spring, I had the collegiate seniors sign in with their contact information and where they expected to be after graduation. There were seniors from 8 of our 9 chapters in the state present. Only about 20% of those who signed in expected to remain in state after graduation. This defeated my purpose of obtaining this information to give to our alumnae chapters and clubs!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AGDee

It's all about the automatic scholarships. If you have a 32 on the ACT and above a certain GPA (3.75 maybe? Don't remember off hand), you have an automatic free ride. HaloStar considered it, for a minute, until he talked to my brother who discouraged it. He thinks my son would have a very hard time fitting in there.

I know a fair amount of people who went south from my neck of the woods and transferred to a northern school within a year.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I know a fair amount of people who went south from my neck of the woods and transferred to a northern school within a year.

This happened several times to kids in my graduating class! They would go to big southern state schools like Alabama, Florida, etc. and then for one reason or another (usually finances) come home to my in-state school for this upcoming academic year. I'm actually the farthest south student left in my 350+ person class.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

This happened several times to kids in my graduating class! They would go to big southern state schools like Alabama, Florida, etc. and then for one reason or another (usually finances) come home to my in-state school for this upcoming academic year. I'm actually the farthest south student left in my 350+ person class.

Many of these scholarships are also tied to maintaining a certain GPA. If you start with a class that is all coming in with a 32 ACT and a 3.8 GPA and tell them they have to maintain a 3.5 to keep their scholarship, it doesn't take very long to realize not everyone will be returning the next year.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AGDee

This defeated my purpose of obtaining this information to give to our alumnae chapters and clubs!

I bet we got some of them in the Chicago JC. I haven't been really active recently but last I was, about a third of them went to Michigan schools, and another third from Indiana. The rest of us were from everywhere.

[rosebud8056]

[QUOTE=AGDee;2232264]It's all about the automatic scholarships. If you have a 32 on the ACT and above a certain GPA (3.75 maybe? Don't remember off hand), you have an automatic free ride. HaloStar considered it, for a minute, until he talked to my brother who discouraged it. He thinks my son would have a very hard time fitting in there.



my daughter's friend had a 33 on the ACT and had a 5.35 out of 5.0 GPA but only got her tuition covered. I wonder if they only give out a certain number of free ride scholarships because I was surprised this girl didn't get one! I did a few sponsorship letters for girls and was surprised that a majority of them had a 30 or better on the ACT and killer GPA's! University of Illinois is not that much cheaper than Alabama so it makes going out of state a little easier to compare.