re: Forbes America's Best Colleges

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This is an embarrassment to me, and even more so with Birmingham so close to Tuscaloosa. Get our recruiters out of Illinois/California/New Jersy/New York/Pennsylvania and into the metros of Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile or else you will continue to see more of the kids with AU gear. Even our alumni do a horrendous job of keeping legacies of UA to actually go to UA. I can't tell you how many split households where there is one AU parent and one UA parent and their kids will choose AU over UA. I can understand them going to AU if they want to be a vet or pharmacist or something that UA doesn't have, but they are going there because all their friends go there and major in something like Business.

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This is part of UA’s business strategy, actually a longterm investment strategy. Recruiting Long Island and California kids and even providing them with full scholarships in order to attract more $$ in the future. Basically, Auburn is now the “University of Alabama” while UA should be called the New University of New England or sth. Nevertheless, lots of GA and TX kids attending Auburn these days…

UA is ‘extreme case’ of state schools recruiting out-of-state residents, report finds

https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/ua-is-extreme-case-of-state-schools-recruiting-out-of-state-residents-report-finds.html

“UA has made ten times as many out-of-state recruiting visits as in-state visits, the report found. Of the 4,349 off-campus recruiting visits made by UA in 2017, only 392 visits – or 9 percent of all visits – took place in Alabama.”

How the University of Alabama Became a National Player

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/education/edlife/survival-strategies-for-public-universities.html

“The University of Alabama has 45 recruiters — 36 outside of Alabama, including Dee McGraw-Hickey, a Tuscaloosa native living on Long Island.”