High school seniors from the North flock to southern universities: report

High schoolhouse seniors are flocking to southern universities similar Clemson and Alabama implicit America’s astir prestigious colleges successful the North, a file successful the Wall Street Journal reports.

"A increasing fig of high-school seniors successful the North are making an unexpected prime for college: They are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama and different universities successful the South," columnists Douglas Belkin and Andrea Fuller wrote.

Belkin and Fuller wrote that though acold much students applied to Ivy League schools than successful the past 20 years, Clemson and Georgia Institute of Technology "have seen adjacent a bigger spike successful interest."

The file explained further that these confederate schools boast vocation opportunities, an alluring Greek fraternity and sorority life, and sports amusement experience, particularly successful football.

Former President Donald Trump acknowledges the assemblage during halftime of a crippled betwixt the South Carolina Gamecocks and Clemson Tigers astatine Williams-Brice Stadium.  (Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports)

Furthermore, the columnists enactment the confederate schools’ little tuition costs and upwind person go appealing to precocious schoolhouse seniors who are overlooking the country's competitory East Coast universities.

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They mention assemblage counselors successful reporting that "many teens are anxious to commercialized the governmental polarization ripping isolated campuses successful New England and New York for the consciousness of assemblage epitomized by the South’s shot Saturdays."

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WSJ columnists Douglas Belkin and Andrea Fuller wrote that confederate universities boast vocation prospects aft college, an alluring Greek fraternity and sorority life, and sports amusement experience, particularly successful football. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Per the Wall Street Journal column, "The fig of Northerners going to Southern nationalist schools went up 84% implicit the past 2 decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal investigation of the latest disposable Education Department information found."

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For example, the University of Tennessee successful Knoxville has attracted much freshmen from the Northeast implicit the past 20 years. The full freshmen from the Northeast accrued to astir 600 successful a people of astir 6,800 from astir 50 successful 2002.

The University of Mississippi, successful Oxford, saw an summation from 11 to much than 200 successful a people of astir 4,500 successful 2022.

The University of Alabama successful Tuscaloosa has besides seen a spike successful incoming first-year students, the file reported further.

High schoolhouse seniors are flocking to confederate universities similar Clemson and Alabama implicit America’s astir prestigious colleges successful the North, a file successful the Wall Street Journal reports. (Izabela Habur/iStock)

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"At Alabama, applications were up much than 600% successful the aforesaid play — astir 3 times arsenic overmuch arsenic bids to be Harvard," the columnists wrote.

"Southern world stalwarts, specified arsenic Duke, Tulane, Emory and Vanderbilt, person agelong drawn their stock of students from up North, but the caller uptick of students going to the South is fueled by attendance astatine nationalist universities," the columnists added.