<p>I'm from New York and I'm currently interested in UA. I just don't know how to handle the whole "deep south" aspect. People from where I'm from tell me I'm crazy but I think it's a great school that would possibly offer me a decent amount of money. I'm interested in being an accountant, any help with that department?</p>
<p>First of all, University of Alabama does NOT have a “deep south” atmosphere. Too many of the students and the profs are from all over the country. If you visited Tuscaloosa, you’d think you were in any other part of the country…oh except the people will be a lot more friendlier than they are in the NE…lol.</p>
<p>Go to the Bama forum for info:
[University</a> of Alabama - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-alabama/]University”>University of Alabama - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>Alabama has a decent business school, I would assume due to their size the Big 4 recruit there.</p>
<p>Yes, the Big 4 recruit there…the Big 4 also donate to the program. Bama is strong in accounting.</p>
<p>Eg: there are a bunch of CC’ers at UAlabama from the Ny area…off the top of my head, I know chardo’s son started this past fall…</p>
<p>You should search and contact them to answer additional questions…</p>
<p>First of all, University of Alabama does NOT have a “deep south” atmosphere. Too many of the students and the profs are from all over the country. If you visited Tuscaloosa, you’d think you were in any other part of the country…oh except the people will be a lot more friendlier than they are in the NE…lol."</p>
<p>mom2collegekids strikes again. LOL, ■■■■■ much? This might be the most factually incorrect post I have read on this board.</p>
<p>It is the “South” and you will notice a difference, but it never hurts to get out of your comfort zone and experience another place. The school itself is solid.</p>
<p>This is a bit outside of anyone’s comfort zone:</p>
<p>[Resurgent</a> Ku Klux Klan rallies in Tuscumbia | TuscaloosaNews.com](<a href=“http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070527/NEWS/705270447]Resurgent”>http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070527/NEWS/705270447)</p>
<p>[Race</a> at Alabama | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/11/racist_remarks_anger_students_faculty_administrators_at_university_of_alabama]Race”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/11/racist_remarks_anger_students_faculty_administrators_at_university_of_alabama)</p>
<p>[Tuscaloosa</a> bar shooting targets black victim | theGrio](<a href=“http://thegrio.com/2012/07/20/tuscaloosa-bar-shooting-targets-black-victim/]Tuscaloosa”>Tuscaloosa bar shooting targets black victim - TheGrio)</p>
<p>Informative. How much time have you spent on Bama’s campus? Uh…probably very little or none.</p>
<p>I have spent countless hours on Bama’s campus as well as on many campuses all over the US. You would not notice a “deep south” atmosphere on Bama’s campus…at all. </p>
<p>I have news for you (so that you can be informative…)…Billy Bob isn’t the President of the university and Miss Daisy isn’t the Provost.</p>
<p>Tuscumbia isn’t near Tuscaloosa…it’s over 100 miles away. Are you silly enough to think that if a paper reports something that happens ELSEWHERE that that means that it’s happening in the paper’s city??? Are you aware that racial incidents are a concern on campuses all over the country? Oh, and other places have crime, too.</p>
<p>LOL, the fact that you think my post was focused on “crime” really speaks volumes.</p>
<p>I don’t think your post focused on crime. I think you wrongly were trying to link something awful (KKK group ) that occured in a more rural city that’s over 100 miles away to the university. </p>
<p>I also think you wrongly tried to assume that “racial concerns” on a campus indicate something unique to the south. Racial concerns/incidents have happened and are happening all over this country. I’m from Calif. There are insensitive racial incidents happening on Calif campuses. Does that mean that UC campuses have a “deep south atmospere” or maybe you’d call it a “deep west atmosphere”. Recently there were frat guys at a Calif college dressed up in Black Face. There was that UCLA girl that posted that horrible racist rant on Youtube. There are Hispanic, Black, Asian, and White “issues” happening on a semi-regular basis on those campuses. You get 18-22 year olds together and you’re going to have some stupid things happen. Those things do not define a college.</p>
<p>It doesn’t happen with near the frequency as it happens in southern campuses such as Ole Miss.</p>
<p>oh really? says who? And, this thread wasn’t asking about Ole Miss, was it? Do you think that all southern schools are the same? Isn’t that being a bit stereotypical???</p>
<p>If you’re referring to exclusively Black issues, then you might be right since there are many, many more Black students on southern campuses than other campuses, so the possibiity of incidents will be greater. However, on other campuses, there are racially-tinged incidents that involve other races…Hispanics, Asians, what-have-you. </p>
<p>racial issues/pressures/etc are an issue on many, many campuses. There’s even a book that was written, [Amazon.com:</a> Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (9780465083619): Beverly Daniel Tatum: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617) that addresses racial divides that exist on college campuses…and the genesis of the book was NOT southern schools.</p>
<p>My oldest son grew up in the DC suburbs and then went to college in Pennsylvania and was shocked by the racism of his classmates in PA. Many had never been friends with (some claim to have never met) a person of another race. Ugly hatred is not geographic specific- and in this case, my son saw it a LOT more in the north than he ever did in either DC or on trips to Mississippi to visit family.</p>
<p>People seriously got to stop this discrimination of where your from. If you go to U alabama, they arent going to treat you bad and not be your friend bc your not a southerner, just like a southerner wouldnt get treated bad and people not want to be their friend if they came up north to go to school. Its terrible people still stir that crap up…</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Hi, eg1995. My son is a National Merit Scholar who’s a junior, double majoring in Marketing and Telecommunication & Film at the University of Alabama. He grew up in Hawaii, the most racially diverse state in the country, and attended the same top-flight college prep academy attended by President Obama. He has experienced zero culture shock at UA, has never felt like he had to deal with any “deep south aspect,” has made amazing friends, is getting a first rate education, and absolutely loves his experience at 'Bama.</p>
<p>I am multi-racial, grew up in a liberal non-Christian household, was raised in an integrated neighborhood, have a Ph.D. and attended Cal Berkeley in the late '60s. If the University of Alabama was the bastion of racism, religious/political intolerance, rednecks, hicks, neo-cons, drunks, mindless frat/sorority airheads, and other associated stereotypes that the fear mongers and uninformed might portray it to be, my kid wouldn’t be going there. He is surrounded by bright, motivated peers. He is taught by stimulating professors. And he is a member of the Honors College, which limits its seminars to a maximum of 15 students and is run by the most wonderful, gracious folks you’d ever hope to meet.</p>
<p>My best advice is to pay a visit to UA, for seeing is believing. The school will roll out the red carpet for you and you will be able to decide for yourself if it’s a good fit or not. 50% of the entering class is from out-of-state each year, including satisfied (and very smart) New Yorkers, some of whom I know personally. Every year the number of National Merit finalists who choose to attend UA grows by leaps and bounds. Peruse the UA forum on CC and you’ll see how happy so many of these folks are with their Alabama experience.</p>
<p>I’ll leave you with something I posted on the UA forum in 2011. Best of luck with your college decision.</p>
<hr>
<p>Why Alabama? It’s a question that we, and our son, born and raised in Hawaii, asked over and over last fall. All it took was a visit and we discovered the answer. Here are the top 10 reasons why the University of Alabama is a great choice:
- Plentiful and generous out-of-state scholarships.
- The Honors College–the personal touch and rigor of a small liberal arts college, coupled with the resources of a major research university.
- Diversity—more than 40% of incoming freshmen are from out-of-state. Looking for a church, temple, or mosque? They’re all here.
- A drop-dead gorgeous campus.
- A modern, state-of-the art infrastructure—the facilities are first-rate.
- The finest dorms we’ve ever seen.
- An endless array of extracurricular activities, service opportunities, internships, and recreation.
- Southern Hospitality—the Aloha Spirit, Mainland style.
- Water! Kayaking, canoeing, rowing, water skiing, sailing, and swimming.
- Deep traditions. Awesome school spirit and pride. A visionary president and chancellor.</p>
<p>Informative- please just give it a rest. You are so wrong almost all of the time. </p>
<p>I am impressed with Alabama and the grads and current students I frequently encounter in the business community and socially here in Tennessee.</p>
<p>I never quite understand why the phrase “deep South” has such a negative connotation. It makes me think of hot, humid summers, a slight Southern drawl, friendly people, a slower pace of life, friends and neighbors spending time eating BBQ and playing dominoes and generally looking out for each other…</p>
<p>The term “Deep South” is often used in a derogatory fashion to suggest rural, ignorant, and very poor. </p>
<p>Therefore, when people from other regions are considering attending schools in the South, they are sometimes concerned about experiencing some huge “culture shock.” </p>
<p>There won’t be some huge culture shock at Bama. Will you see some grocery store chains or restaurants that aren’t familiar to you? Yes…that happens when you visit any region. But there will also be the big national chains that are very familar to you. Will some people have accents? Yes, but again, that happens no matter where you visit. But, there will also be a large number of people without any accent at all (the influence of TV…lol). </p>
<p>That said, the bigger cities in the US are becoming quite homogenous. National chain stores and Fortune 500 companies have set up business. Transplants move in and bring in their regions’ influences. When you drive down a main boulevard in a good sized city, it will look like any other city in America…Best Buy, McDonalds, Barnes & Noble, Outback Restaurant, Sams Club, Home Depot, Target, Starbucks, and whatever will be dotted along the road.</p>
<p>My daughter, currently a junior, got a very generous scholarship to UA and so was able to attend. She’s OOS and not a Southerner, if that matters. She absolutely LOVES UA and has even learned to love football! She herself is very open-minded and accepts people for who they are, not based on external appearance. She has found that students at UA are equally broad-minded. Your concerns truly are groundless. By all means attend UA if you want, the scholarships are amazing.</p>