Auburn vs Alabama

gabbies
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:50:08 +0000

Our story is a little different but I thought I’d offer some of our experiences.

Son will be attending college fall 2010. He applied to 7 schools, 5 southern and 2 northern. He was accepted to 4, not accepted to one, deferred and then accepted to another, and waitlisted to one. Unfortunately, the “perfect” school was the one he was not accepted to, so we again hit the road and revisited each school (yes, we visited all schools before applying). He accepted admission to Auburn (we are out of state)

Housing: If you want to live on campus, it is imperative that you apply for on campus housing the minute you receive your acceptance to Auburn. Do not wait! If you wait, you stand a good chance of having to rent off campus. If you decide not to attend, you’ve only lost $200.00 but it’s well worth $200 for piece of mind, especially if you are out of state. The new housing complex call the Village is beautiful, whereas the Quad is in the heart of the campus. If you are not in honors, joining a learning community is an excellent way to ensure you will get on campus housing in the area you want (again, as long as you sign up immediately). The Village complex has about 1600 units. Some are for athletes, some for sororities and some for learning communities. So you can see, accommodating all these groups with only 1600 units is why it fills so fast, not to mention they are only two years old and everyone has a seperate bedroom!

The “main” area of the campus is very compact, which is fantastic. It gives the campus the close and comfortable feeling. The university is expanding, new buildings are being constructed and they are beautiful. The new recreation facility is underway as well as two new engineering buildings. Don’t be misled and think the campus is small just because it’s compact. The campus is huge; I believe they have a little more than 1800 acres. I recently read an article that listed top campuses. It stated that Auburn’s stadium holds around 85,000 and Ohio State (the second largest in the US) has about 1700 acres and their staduim holds about 105,000.

According to Auburn’s website, a 32 act score is definitely eligible for scholarships and honors. Here’s the link [Office of University Scholarships - Home](Office of University Scholarships | Auburn University)

I would recommend that you spend some time on the website and then spend a day or two at the school. The website is really user friendly and you will love the school. Use “search” at the top of the page on the website. It uses “normal words” to bring up everything you could want to know.

I found the students and the employees to be super friendly.

Can you tell that I really like the university?