Wondering how a student from NY will acclimate to Auburn. Also accepted to Alabama and Michigan State for Mechanical Engineering.
I’m sure you can look up the actual numbers on Auburns website but I live in a fairly small town outside NYC and probably 5 local kids have gone in recent years and seem to have joined fraternities/ sororities etc and fit in well.
Don’t know about Auburn… they don’t have a lot of OOS students from non-neighboring states.
Alabama has a large group of students from NY…and NY has many very active Bama alumni groups.
That’s my concern. Although I think Auburn may gave a better program for mechanical engineering with a focus on automotives.
Thousands of kids from Alabama adapt to going to school in NYS, though it seems cold, dark, and rude to many at first. Students adapt. He will be fine.
Alabama has a fine engineering program. Not sure why you think Auburn is better.
Sample of one…our street has 14 houses on it…in New England. And one Auburn grad. She loved it there.
@roycroftmom I think this parent is asking about a kid moving from NY to Auburn…not Alabama to NY.
Yes, I understand that. Students move in the opposite direction and no one thinks twice about it.
@thumper1 thank you! I was referring to the automotive engineering program. My son would be able too obtain a minor in automotive engineering. Will definitely be visiting both schools.
I know someone who is a sophomore at Auburn and he is from NY and is loving it. Every experience is personal so I’m not sure how helpful that may be to you. But, most kids adapt fairly well. Just make sure you visit when there are students on campus. That way you get a true feel for the student population.
Thank you! @pkchamp89 appreciate your feedback.
LOL - even in posts about which school to choose, competition from Bama! Hope you get the chance to visit Auburn - you’ll love it. It is very welcoming and they have plenty of students from the northeast, west coast, Texas - War Eagle!
Do we really think this is true? Where are those “thousands” of Alabama kids enrolled?
In 2014, US DOE data shows that 1,452 Alabama students left the state to enroll in college in other states. But over a third of them went to Mississippi – 571 – and I would speculate that Florida and Georgia got more than a few, too. And Tennessee, Louisiana, and the Carolinas. It’s hard to believe more than 100-200 students from Alabama per year go more than 700 miles from home to college, and it can’t be the case that all of them are going to New York State.
There may be “dozens” of Alabama kids going to college in New York State at any time, although I suspect that’s stretching it, too. Maybe a couple hundred per decade. It would take many generations of students to add up to “thousands.”
Alabama has close ties to the Mercedes Benz plant in Vance (not far from Tuscaloosa) and has select students with internship/Co-op. German language requirement.
There are more and more automotive work opportunities with auto mfrg and auto parts growing in southern states, including AL.
Auburn has the history of engineering; UA has focused on STEM. DD is graduating eng at UA - many new buildings.
UA and AU both have some of the competition teams student may be looking for with auto…
DD is senior on steel bridge design team, which will compete with other schools in the spring.
UA also stacks an engineering scholarship for high-stat students. AU doesn’t do quite as well on their scholarships to students.
Here is some helpful background as to how UA has gone up some notches in recent years to now having more incoming students being from OOS, and OOS from big distances.
agree!
thank you @SOSConcern Very interesting facts! We are visiting next month both UA and AU.
Toyoto-Mazda in a news conference in Montgomery last week with Toyota and Mazda Presidents present, announced a new auto plant in Huntsville AL (east Limestone County, city of Huntsville has annexed into county west of Madison County) - joint venture investment of $1.6B, with the plant expected to eventually produce 300,000 vehicles a year and employ 4,000. Producing Toyota Corolla, and Mazda producing a crossover model new to North America. This announcement made national news - my brother in Alaska called me about it.
They were deciding between the last two states in the running, North Carolina and AL - NC reportedly offered $1.6B in incentives, much more than AL’s package of between $800M and $900M…however Toyota has a very successful engine plant in Huntsville that has expanded several times, and there are a lot of very new auto plants in AL, so the supply chain is built up. Also proximity to plant in Mississippi. The companies like AL for hard work, promise, and potential. Very good economic dev’t in AL.
Enjoy the college visits. Both have excellent engineering curricula and student opportunities. UA has trimmed their UG scholarships a bit, but high stat kids do pretty well with OOS scholarships at UA in comparison to many flagships. UA has a wider mix of students from across the country with national recruiting and OOS scholarships.
When I was a student at Auburn I had three sorority sisters from NY and one from NJ. I knew several people from NJ, PA, VA - also MN, OH, KY, TX, IL, AR, NC, SC, WV, and even Australia. I can’t imagine its any different now. As long as your child gets involved, they will find their tribe and do just fine.
You can probably find that information on their website - I know there were many kids from out of state in band and one of my sons roommates is from Texas, one of his other best friends was from Virginia. At 2 different football games this year random folks sitting in front and beside us from Los Angeles and Boston, each visiting with their kids to check out Auburn (picked 2 of the best games this year Georgia and the Iron Bowl)…they both loved the campus and the atmosphere on football weekend is incredible. Pretty sure they made their decisions that weekend.
Hello @SOSConcern do you happen to know the criteria to be selected for the internship and co-op opportunities at Mercedes while attending U Alabama? Thank you
http://coop.eng.ua.edu/employers/mercedes-benz/
I do know a female student that was selected for co-op opportunity; she is engineering student, high stat (4.0 at UA; Presidential Scholarship OOS student). She came in with AP credit and was selected during her freshman year - so starting her co-op term during sophomore year.