re: Why does University of Alabama have so many out of state students?

It's also the kids who can't get the scholarship money to LSU, OU, Ole Miss, etc to make going to those schools worth it. Also LSU is probably a third of the distance Tech is from Houston. OU is maybe half the distance from Dallas. OU is closer to Houston than Tech is. I bet Arkansas is about the same from both. It's so far out there