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re: What % of your school’s enrollment comes from inside the SEC footprint?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 3:21 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
Posted on 12/11/25 at 3:21 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
Tel Aviv of the South Tuscaloosa
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Posted on 12/11/25 at 3:47 pm to jangalang
I have my doubts. I believe 75% of the freshman class at Texas is reserved to the top 5% of seniors in their high school classes in state.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 3:59 pm to TAMU-93
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Texas A&M Fall 2025 Enrollment for SEC footprint.
Texas - 64,341 (86.47%)
Florida - 263 (0.35%)
Louisiana - 230 (0.31%)
Georgia - 224 (0.30%)
Tennessee - 160 (0.22%)
Oklahoma - 122 (0.16%)
Missouri - 117 (0.16%)
Arkansas - 85 (0.11%)
S Carolina - 75 (0.10%)
Alabama - 67 (0.09%)
Mississippi - 52 (0.07%)
Kentucky - 38 (0.05%)
88.40% from the SEC footprint.
Sure seemed like we had a lot more from Louisiana back in the day. I guess the top 10% rule killed that.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 4:33 pm to AUTiger789
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% of Students from the SEC footprint:
88.70%- Mississippi
87.90%- Arkansas
86.64%- Oklahoma*
It is interesting that OU is this high...
But out of 30ish K students on the Norman Campus... About 15 K are from Oklahoma and another 7K are from Texas.
Texas sends ten times more students than the next state... which is California. Next is Colorado. Then Kansas.
In the SEC... Missouri is fifth. Florida is sixth. Arkansas is surprisingly only ninth, and Georgia is eleventh. The rest of the SEC states are mixed in with the rest of the country supplying less than 100 students to OU.
It is interesting that Arkansas sends so few... but the University of Arkansas sits almost on the Oklahoma state line. OU would probably get a lot more students from Arkansas if the UA were in another part of Arkansas.
Contrast that to places in Texas or a place like Wichita... where OU really isn't that much further away than the home state schools.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 4:40 pm to dallastiger55
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We are in north Texas and my kid is applying inside Texas and it’s almost impossible to get into Texas and A&M isn’t far behind.
That’s why Arkansas, Ole Miss and OU/Okie State have so many from north Texas. Arkansas is like north Texas 2.0. 4.5 hours away and easy to get in to.
This is exactly why so many kids from Texas are going out of state. A girl we know graduated w/ straight A's from one of the top private Catholic schools in the state. Couldn't get into Texas (her first choice) nor A&M. If she'd been in another school where her grades would've gotten her into top 5% of class, or maybe if she was a race other than white, she would've gotten in. But LSU, OU, Arkansas all offered her scholarship money. She chose OU and absolutely loved it.
Have another friend whose son just went to Ole Miss; I think he said Mississippi doesn't require paying out of state tuition (i.e. pays same as local kids), and they also have one of the best accounting programs around.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 4:41 pm to AUTiger789
This is the most interesting post among all I have read so far AUTiger789. Good effort.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 4:53 pm to AUTiger789
For undergraduates, Arkansas has two Texans for every three Arkansans.
Either Texas has plans for a hostile takeover or Arkansas is playing the long game to infiltrate Texas recruiting grounds with more Arkansas fans.
Either Texas has plans for a hostile takeover or Arkansas is playing the long game to infiltrate Texas recruiting grounds with more Arkansas fans.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 5:14 pm to jangalang
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Number from Texas is surprising.
I know of 4 kids from my son's Austin HS from this year alone going to Auburn, even more to Bama (Bama throws around a lot of scholarship money). Arkansas has as many kids as Texas and A&M, OU isn't far behind.
Texas is just a manufacturer of quality college prepped kids. There well over 400k kids that graduate from HS in Texas annually now and Texas has over 260 6A HS's (over 2300 students each). Many Suburban HS's in the DFW/Houston/Austin/San Antonio metros are just outstanding and Texas and A&M simply can't take them all. UT has the Top 5% rule now and A&M is Top 8%, meaning those kids get auto admission but they don't get auto admit to their major. Thus you have a lot of really smart kids who can't get into the Engineering or Business Schools there.
It's a big drop from Texas/A&M to Tech and most kids don't want to go to Lubbock, it's a long way in the middle of nowhere. Some do of course. Some will go the SMU/Baylor/TCU route if they have money. Rice is small and basically an Ivy. The other Texas schools (UH, North Texas, Texas State, etc) aren't very exciting for most kids.
Thus you have a lot of well prepared and smart kids from upper middle class families looking and the SEC recruits Texas HEAVILY. They are all over the college fairs and visiting the campus. I mean you have HS's with over 600 grads and an average SAT score of 1250-1300 with tons of AP credit and parents with the money to pay for their kid to go OOS. Hell my son's school had 5 kids OUTSIDE the Top 10% get into Ivies, just a lot of smart kids who are just below that level. It's a match made heaven. Those kids tend to crush it academically as well once they get into school.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 5:29 pm to Murph4HOF
Auburn is where the intelligent metro Atlanta kids that didn't quite get in to UGA go instead to receive a quality education.
Ole Miss is where the Metro retards that never had a chance to get into UGA go for a similar college party environment.
Hope this helps!
Ole Miss is where the Metro retards that never had a chance to get into UGA go for a similar college party environment.
Hope this helps!
Posted on 12/11/25 at 5:36 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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I don’t know the percentage but I know a frick ton of people from Georgia and Texas go to Ole Miss
I think literally half the kids in my neighborhood went to Ole Miss this year. I was shocked to see anc's post that TX kids were only 7.2% I expected a lot higher.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 5:45 pm to Barstools
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Auburn is where the intelligent metro Atlanta kids that didn't quite get in to UGA go instead to receive a quality education.
This is such a hard NO. Auburn is about a half notch above Mississippi State.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 5:46 pm to AUTiger789
How many minorities does the barn have that aren't there for sports?
Posted on 12/11/25 at 6:13 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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I don’t know the percentage but I know a frick ton of people from Georgia and Texas go to Ole Miss
That's because it's easier to get into Ole Miss than it is UGA or TX.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 6:16 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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For undergraduates, Arkansas has two Texans for every three Arkansans.
Arkansas is the least expensive major university that Texas kids can attend, roughly equivalent to TX Tech. As another poster said, most don't like Lubbock.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 6:25 pm to jangalang
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Number from Texas is surprising.
I would have thought the same for Auburn, too until my daughter was shopping schools.
Auburn is fricking expensive as an OOS person.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:28 pm to Doak Walker
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This is such a hard NO. Auburn is about a half notch above Mississippi State.
Wrong. In terms of selectivity, Auburn is around 5th or 6th in the SEC, behind Vandy and close to a tight grouping of Texas, ATM, UGA, and UF. Average entrant to the Ginn College of Engineering last year scored a 30 on their ACT.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:32 pm to Henry Jones Jr
When I was at Ole Miss, I was surprised at how many students were from Illinois.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:38 pm to Wishbone85
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Arkansas has a clause that if your a State that borders Arkansas you don't have to pay out of State tuition to go there
South Carolina reciprocates as well... but they have to be exceptional students that exceed the comparable in-state students' qualifications.
In other words, if you're coming from Georgia or North Carolina you have an advantage but you gotta have the grades and the interviews (unless you're an athlete).
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:41 pm to scrooster
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South Carolina 19,869 49%
Absolutely inexcusable. Less than half of the student body of flagship university being in-state should have the General Assembly up in arms.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 7:42 pm to Sooner a Reb
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When I was at Ole Miss, I was surprised at how many students were from Illinois.
We know DFW is big on Ole Miss... and people are saying Atlanta as well...
But even before the Georgia and Texas schools got so competitive (because of the growth of the states) and started sending their students to Ole MIss. I always heard that suburban Chicago and Saint Louis sent a lot of kids down there.
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