re: Where do your school's students come from?

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You can say the same for Auburn as well.

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Only if you include Birmingham as part of Metro Atlanta, which I would support.

If you use this website's "compare" function, it will show you what states the student body comes from. Here I compared Mizzou vs Arkansas vs LSU. It looks like Illinois is your Texas:

scroll down a ways

Mizzou:

Missouri 61.3%
Illinois 22.7%
Foreign Countries 2.9%
Texas 2.4%
Minnesota 1.6%
Kansas 1.6%

U of Arkansas:

Arkansas 50.5%
Texas 25.3%
Missouri 8.1%
Oklahoma 4.7%
Kansas 3.5%
Tennessee 2.4%
Foreign Countries 1.3%
Louisiana 0.7%
Illinois 0.5%
Florida 0.4%

LSU:

Louisiana 81.6%
Texas 7.4%
Foreign Countries 1.3%
Georgia 1.3%
Florida 1.3%
Mississippi 0.7%
Virginia 0.7%

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Half from Alabama, the other half from the other SEC states. Lots of Atlanta and Houston kids.

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My daughter's a freshman at UA - her '14 pledge class of +/-125 girls is 20% from California, 15-20% from NY/NJ, 20% from Texas with less than 15% from in-state and a small % from all over the east coast.

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Louisiana and Texas mostly, but I was fortunate to meet great people from MS, GA & FL as well. I'd be willing to bet that LSU has the most state diversification in the SEC.

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I'd say Vandy definitely has the most diverse student body just because their academic prestige is such a draw. I'm surprised whenever I run into a Vandy student from Tennessee...I only know 1.

Not sure.....what attracts most of the out of staters is how easy it is to get in. You can go to OM with a 2.0 gpa and an 18 on the ACT. And yes we get a lot of private school kids from Birmingham, Mtn Brook, Montgomery, Mobile, and Nashville

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I'm surprised whenever I run into a Vandy student from Tennessee...I only know 1.

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That's like finding a UTK grad in Chattanooga. I've lived here for over four years now, and I've only met one - and she graduated during the Ford administration. Most of the college grads from around here go to UT-Chattanooga.


As for USC, after SC residents, I'd say NC kids are next, followed by Ga. Then you get into your mid-Atlantic kids.

The Mothership: Jackson MS.

Memphis

litany of small Mississippi towns


Birmingham
Dallas
Atlanta


From Numberwang's link

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Mississippi 44.9%
Georgia 9.4%
Texas 7.9%
Tennessee 7.7%
Alabama 3.3%
Florida 2.9%
Louisiana 2.6%
Illinois 2.3%
Missouri 2.3%
Virginia 2.1%
North Carolina 1.8%
California 1.7%
Foreign Countries 1.4%
Maryland 1.0%
Arkansas 0.9%
New Jersey 0.9%
Kentucky 0.8%
Ohio 0.6%
New York 0.6%
South Carolina 0.5%
Indiana 0.5%
Pennsylvania 0.4%
Colorado 0.4%
Massachusetts 0.4%
Michigan 0.3%
Connecticut 0.3%
Wisconsin 0.3%
Washington 0.3%
Oklahoma 0.3%
Minnesota 0.2%
Kansas 0.2%
Nevada 0.1%
Arizona 0.1%
New Hampshire 0.1%
District of Columbia 0.1%
Oregon 0.1%
New Mexico 0.1%
Nebraska 0.1%
Montana 0.1%
Rhode Island 0.1%
Iowa 0.0%
Hawaii 0.0%
Delaware 0.0%
Alaska 0.0%
Puerto Rico 0.0%
West Virginia 0.0%

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Arkansas being 25% Texan is the new normal here. It wasn't like that even 10 years ago. DFW's fastest growing northern burbs are only a little over 4 hours south of Fayetteville. They are 3 hours from College Station, for comparison.

The recent huge corporate relocations to Collin County mean that their already ridiculous growth might accelerate in the near future, even though it is leading the country right now.

I wouldn't be surprised if the University of Arkansas is around 50% DFW kids sometime in the next decade.

The website I referenced in my post above shows Alabama as:

Alabama
Alabama 39.9%
Georgia 8.3%
Texas 5.7%
Florida 5.5%
Tennessee 4.8%
California 3.2%
Illinois 3.0%

Ole Miss
Mississippi 44.9%
Georgia 9.4%
Texas 7.9%
Tennessee 7.7%
Alabama 3.3%
Florida 2.9%
Louisiana 2.6%
Illinois 2.3%
Missouri 2.3%
Virginia 2.1%

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Good Gawd that's low.

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Old law requires all state institutions have the same admission standards. Ayers Case I think.

If you can get in to J State you can get in to UM or MSU.