Hopefully, the start of a trend

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<p>[News:</a> Price Check at Sewanee - Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/17/sewanee_cuts_its_tuition_by_10_percent]News:”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/17/sewanee_cuts_its_tuition_by_10_percent)</p>

<p>[‘Some</a> College Needed to Step Up and Say, Enough’ - NYTimes.com](<a href=“'Some College Needed to Step Up and Say, Enough' - The New York Times”>'Some College Needed to Step Up and Say, Enough' - The New York Times)</p>

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<p>From the article: “For the last three years, McCardell said in an interview, Sewanee has lost more admitted applicants to the University of Georgia than to any other institution.”</p>

<p>This guy’s pretty shrewd. GA has siphoned off so much of its HOPE fund lottery revenue to tech school and private school entitlements that its celebrated HOPE Scholarship funds (which send HS grads with 3.0 or better GPAs to state colleges tuition-free) are drying up. Legislators have announced that HOPE will have to be cut back and are now discussing how much and how to do it. Before HOPE, a certain percentage of GA HS grads left the state for college. After HOPE went into effect, that percentage dropped dramatically, and the last generation of GA’s best and brightest stayed in-state and are now raising their bright kids as Georgians. With cuts to HOPE, the proportion of kids who go out-of-state will rise once again. Sewanee’s about 20 miles from the GA state line. Looks like a chunk of this generation’s best and brightest will go on to raise the next generation as Tennesseans. :(</p>