re: So the u of Bama wants to become more yankee?

I get what you're saying but without seeing the numbers I don't think we can know for sure. Also, we don't know if long term a lot of the students who chose to go to school here only to leave after graduation will come back.

There are benefits to out of state students coming as well.

I know out of state students who are paying full tuition to come to UA. Would they come here if we weren't recruiting their states so hard?

Even if a student with full tuition from out of state leaves Alabama, he will likely have still put thousands of dollars into the local economy.

The way Alabama schools do scholarships benefits the best students in state. I'm from Tennessee, and I thought the lottery scholarship was a rip-off because with a 34 ACT, I was getting about the same from UTK as someone with a 28. UTK has since changed their scholarships to fight that, but you'd still get a better deal from UA.