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International business this week.

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Well .... SC has the #1 International School of Business MBA in the country as well, so there's that too.

Honors College, International School of Business, SEC ... heck, what was the question again?

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The Best of Both Worlds

When you combine the resources of a top-tier research university and the feel of a small liberal arts college, you get the top-ranked public honors college in the United States. You get the best of both worlds, the South Carolina Honors College.

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The Darla Moore School of Business offers three outstanding MBA programs, including our No. 1 ranked International MBA. Choose from a variety of MBA degree options and specializations that are tailored to your life, career goals and interests.

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All three of my kids decided they wanted to go to Alabama. While there are positives, I’ll point out two potential negatives to consider. The school has a huge Greek system and can be very clickish. If she isn’t interested in sorority life, she might not enjoy it as much. Secondly, you can forget any chance of ever getting in state tuition in the state of Alabama. The office of the registrar doesn’t return calls or answer the phone. This lack of assistance has been very typical for every department at the university. Per my kids, the staff is terrible and doesn’t seem to care. My kids kept having problems getting someone to talk with them at the registrar so I thought I’d try myself. They were correct, no one will answer or return a call. I went for a period where I called the registrar’s office every day and left a new message stating, “hey it’s me again just giving you my daily call hoping you will return it. Would still like to talk with you. Have a nice day”. Some admin accidentally answered the phone one day and admitted to me that the person I needed to speak to doesn’t answer or return calls. The person I did need to speak to also answered accidentally one day so I went through scenarios to see what it would take to get in state. It doesn’t matter that they work, support themselves, are paying for their own tuition through loans, have car, license and voting registration, aren’t being claimed on my tax returns, etc. It doesn’t matter that my kids are fully independent. Doesn’t matter that our entire extended family lives in Alabama. Doesn’t matter that I own a residence in Alabama. Just for grins, I finally asked about the scenario of what if we, as parents, relocated to Alabama and made it our full time residence also. I can work out of my home and plan to move back to Alabama eventually. I figured that surely with the kids being fully independent and us living there would be a qualification. I was told that still wouldn’t qualify unless I could provide a letter from my employer stating I had been relocated to Alabama strictly for a work assignment there. Out of state students are a huge revenue stream for them. Also learned over time that the admission requirements seem to be a lot lower for out of state students. It’s kinda like bringing in cheap foreign labor.

USC has the #1 honors program, and if you say she wants to be an IB major, then USC is perfect for that. The campus is great and its really pretty safe, even 5 points is getting better

What is "LSU Honors College"?

Depends on your daughter. Auburn is fine academically and has a very good ROI. It is known for being more conservative than other universities and I know a lot of daddies who send their daughters there because they think it’s safe. No place is perfectly safe. I can only speak to Auburn since that’s where I went. Major will definitely matter and her overall feel will matter. You should visit them all. You do not know until you visit.

PS: I graduated in 1980 so take that into consideration when reading my comments.

Of those? None.

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Completely false

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During orientation we spoke to lots of out of state parents that said, “our kid couldn’t get accepted at home state school X, so applied at Alabama”. Not trying to knock the school academically, my kids have a vested interest there. However I believe that admission standards are different for out of state.

Auburn's honors program pretty much lets the student design their own curriculum and major. Sounded odd to me at the time, but students love the fact that they can concentrate on their subjects of choice.

LSU has always has a big Greek system. But it never had the feeling that you had to be in a fraternity or sorority to enjoy the experience of being a student at the school. Most of my friends who were in fraternities went inactive after their sophomore year. Don’t know if that is still true, but I suspect it is.