@2023collbound
Bama is not a selective and competitive institution and that acceptance rate I don’t think is accurate. Everyone I know that applied to Bama got in. Students who couldn’t get into their dream more competitive and highly prestigious state schools (UT Austin, UFlorida, Georgia Tech, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill) pack up and go to Bama many times.
Bama does a great job of baiting students with high test scores/GPAs with huge scholarships that the popular “Public Ivies” don’t need to do and can’t do (almost every student would have a scholarship). Trust me, Bama would cut back on generosity soon if the university wants to go build up its endowment. Too many students have the resources to score well on the ACT/SAT nowadays and its costing Bama too much. Scholarships should be reserved for the most intriguing and ambitious students, not students just with high test scores/GPAs and nothing else intriguing about them