<p>The University of Alabama is a very nurturing university. They want all their students or kids to do well and they have and will continue to do everything possible to keep your DD or DS in the best possible situation…</p>
<p>Mercedes-Benz could have chosen any location in the world to place their only automobile plant outside of Europe and guess what they chose Tuscaloosa, Alabama!..ROLL TIDE</p>
<p>Hmm…nurturing, balanced, beautiful, academically competitive, fun. Yeah, that’ll do quite nicely.</p>
<p>Wait, they’ll throw in a scholarship as well? C’mon!</p>
<p>UA is a Tier 1 school.</p>
<p>I worked for a large company that had a world-class R&D organization. A lot of the PhDs got their undergraduate degree at non-descript Tier 2 and Tier 3 universities and then got their graduate degrees at top schools. Some got their undergrad degrees at Ivies too. I worked directly with two guys who got their BS degrees from Dartmouth. One was excellent and one was terrible. (He had no common sense and was ineffective).</p>