re: 2019 WSJ Academic Rankings - SEC Schools

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You know little about which you speak. There are basically two different types of students at each school. UGA has many kids from Metro-Atlanta, who were born all over the US/world whose families moved to Atlanta with corporate transfers, medical careers, etc. Most of these kid’s parents are highly educated professionals, who have provided good educations for their kids. Auburn students tend to come from Alabama.

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Hold up. I'm as proud of the University of Georgia as anyone... but this is pretty ridiculous.

First off, 35% of kids that attend Auburn are from out of state compared to less than 10% of kids that attend Georgia being from out of state. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it, but Georgia has one of the lowest out-of-state attendance percentages of any major public school in America.

So I guess your argument boils down to people being from Georgia (Atlanta in particular) are simply more educated and well-to-do compared to people from Alabama.

Yes, I think you can make a facts-based argument that Georgia is far better off if you are comparing states as a whole. But just as the typical Georgia student is not from some small rural town like Statesboro, the same goes for Auburn and Alabama. The typical Auburn (or Alabama) student for that matter is not from some small country town like Demopolis.

Auburn is extremely heavy with kids coming from Birmingham's Over-the-Mountain Area. In fact, it runs over 11% of Auburn's total enrollment each year. I'm very familiar with both Birmingham and Atlanta, and I can tell you there is virtually zero difference in kids that grow up in the wealthier parts of metro Atlanta and the kids that grow up in the OTM area of Birmingham.

... and yes, most all of these kids are children of "highly educated professionals, who have provided good educations for their kids."