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Poster Name:
less fresh

Poster Message:
Enrollment of new freshman is down for the first time in years. Why? The school changed the top scholarship $ and raised the cut off scores for OOS. They are focusing more on IS since they are losing so many to Auburn. Next year scholarship $ has already been announced and they are throwing $ at IS to get it back in balance and closer to their mission to educated Alabama kids. It is a balancing act to keep the OOS top kids coming (to keep increasing the # of top scorers - NMF,Presidential scholars) and to keep the full pay OOS kids interested to off set keeping costs down for IS. Our IS tuition is not going up next year but OOS is going up like 5% again. IS scholarhsips for next year will have more $ at the middle and lower? levels but the same for amount for OOS with higher tuition prices. I know this because I have a sibling going through application/college selection now and this is a big topic. Hope she chooses Bama but she has lots of friends headed to Auburn and some already there.