🏈 Gambling in Alabama

[BamaFan334]

Thank you and ittakes11, She has worked hard and with significant focus for over 3.5 years. I wasn’t trying to brag but more show that room and board are almost impossible to get these days. You have to be that 1 in 1,000 student, at worst. Some schools it’s even tougher. To get room and board at TCU she had to go through two rounds of essays then was lucky enough to get an interview, but was not selected. Room and board used to be attainable, but not so now.

Another thing worth noting is that schools only want you in dorms your freshman year, then they boot you off campus. Not enough dorm rooms. That is room and board related. At UT, even a few hundred freshman don’t get dorm spots. Arizona State, if you are in the honors college, puts you in a dorm that is apartment style and very high end, even had a resort swimming pool just for honor college students (there was a recent WSJ article that featured this dorm), but most other schools need you out of dorms after year 1. And those huge sorority houses near BDS house between 75-80 sisters, while the sororities have 500-800 sisters, so it’s usually seniors and a few juniors that get selected for those rooms (based on our tours of houses and discussions with the representatives). From what we’ve learned, when your kid starts classes their freshman year, you immediately start looking for housing for their sophomore year. Hopefully this info is helpful for anyone else with these decisions coming up. It’s been very eye opening for us.

May want to look into buying something and doing that whole thing.

 

[Rolltide24]

What about Bama? They usually drool over out of state achievers.

Alabama is giving her full tuition (out of state) and an extra $2,500. And we are appreciative of that offer, but with her accomplishments and scores we thought it would be more at most all the schools. And it would have been 5-10 years ago. Timing is everything! UT is still in the running, unfortunately, and if she picks them, they have found some other scholarships that will offset most of the housing but not all. But some of it is because we are in-state and some are local scholarships. Not merit based school money. I’m staying out of it, but she knows I’ll be in mourning if she picks Knoxville. It would be a hard pill to swallow. I’d rather pay more for her to go to Tuscaloosa.

 

[TerryP]

We'd hire that guy immediately and he would make that definitely. Smart guy.

Honesty in its purest form.