IU Kelley vs. Bama Culverhouse

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@_ksmith

I feel awful turning down a full ride just because the college has a non-academic reputation and IU Kelley speaks for itself.

You may want to read through this thread. Unfortunately this OP didn’t have the financial flexibility you have.

How to love your safety...when you're already there?

Hi, so I was a regular on this site in high school. I ended up at the University of Alabama, primarily for financial reasons (NMF). I was a typical high stats/bad ECs applicant. I really thought it would be fine, and that I would end up loving it. Unfortunately, that is not what happened. I rushed, got the 2nd worst sorority, and hardly fit in with anyone in it (it has a very low average GPA, and most girls are from the North, Chicago area, or West Coast). It is SO HARD to find girls who are academically focused and in STEM, and in general, it has just been challenging to find friends. The state of Alabama passed a law over the summer that killed the women’s studies department and made it harder to have discussions about anything that could be considered offensive in class, including things about gender or race. We had zero class discussions in sociology last semester because of it. The campus as a whole is so conservative. And conservative in a respectful way is perfectly fine. I don…

Fit matters and Kelley will afford you access to some career paths that will be far more elusive from Bama.