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

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I've noticed a lot more in-state kids who grew up Alabama fans choosing smaller in-state schools because they either don't meet the higher admission standards OR who don't want to go to a big school, like Alabama is now.

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The admission standards for in-state students is not a factor. As a matter of fact, UA is bringing in a lot of students on special admission wavers in order not to have the ISS vs OSS ratio gap increase even more. What a lot of small AL colleges are doing is allowing students in adjacent states to be considered in-state students. The Hope Scholarship in GA, has helped some AL Colleges because it prevents a lot of those students from going to UGA and GT. So they pay the difference in AL as in-state students.