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live in Huntsville which is a major Engineer town and I understand that there will be more Auburn grads and their kids following in their footsteps, but lately I’ve noticed high schools where lawyers and doctors send their kids (i.e. Huntsville High, Randolph) have a lot more kids going to Auburn over Bama now.
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I suspected that you’re from the HSV area since I lived there for several years and noticed the same. My husband is a retired engineer who worked in HSV. H saw this blind-bias first hand. Even tho the engineers that were hired from Bama were just as good and qualified as the ones from Auburn, the older Auburn grads still “push Auburn” to families whose kids are considering eng’g.
Doesn’t matter if non-engineering families are choosing auburn for eng’g for their kids… if doctors and lawyers from HSV area are sending their kids to Auburn, it’s because of the overall atmosphere that exists there (which I’m familiar with). You have Cummings Research Park there and all those eng’rs who are from Auburn are influencing where the rest are going. The scholarship offers are about the same for instate, so people listen to what their (auburn alum) engineering neighbors say.
It is a problem that is unique to THAT area. UA now has an office in Cummings Research Park which will help with this issue.
It’s not a state-wide problem. If it were, UA would not be enrolling about 12,000 Alabama undergrad residents. Auburn enroll about 13,000 Alabama undergrad residents. We’re not talking about some huge difference.
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just hope UA isn't shutting the door on our local kids
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Lol…that’s not happening.