is auburn a poor school?
by: confusedIm confused, I know yall don't have sorority houses and i have seen TONS of people arguing on here that they would never want them because of the cost and expenses and having to hire a house mom and cooks and what have you but most every other school has them and has no problem paying for them so why is it such a problem here? I go to a different SEC school which I thought would be considered more middle class or "poor" but we still have a thriving greek life with huge sorority houses. I mean we just got a new sorority a few years ago and they could afford to build a house with no real local alumni from the school so idk how current chapters at auburn couldn't when some have had chapters here since the 1920s?? I just don't get how money is an issue at a huge SEC school with tons of generations of alumni, while tiny poor schools can afford for houses and new chapters with no alumni can afford for houses? Can someone explain? Is Auburn just a REALLY poor school?
#1by: No
Commentby: For real...
#2by: Also No
Auburn is not a poor school, the students and families are not poor, and our alums are not poor. The issue with houses is 2 things:
1) ALL the chapters would have to build or none at all, to be fair and in the Panhellenic way. EVERYBODY has to be ready to build at about the same time. They did it at Tennessee with many of the very same sororities as we have here, so national and alumnae support is there if we decide to do this.
2) WHERE would we build? This is a big deal. Land is not just sitting there waiting for us, it would have to be acquired. So if we all decided today to build, there's not anywhere to go at present.
We can do it but it will take massive coordination and leadership.
by: Jeez
^^^This! It's an all or nothing situation. Most of the initial funding would come for the sorority house corporations with contributions from the local alumnae and financed over a period of time. Almost all national sororities can drop $1-$5MM for a house. Now if you are looking at $13MM like the Phi Mu House at UA, that is another story, but we don't have 400+ size chapters and don't need 46,000 sq ft houses. The biggest issue is land! 18 houses with adequate parking for members and a descent yard is going to equate to anywhere from 10-20+ acres of land depending on house sizes. You know of that much undeveloped land on or near campus? Come on people - how many of us are studying finance or real estate - it's not hard to figure out.
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#3by: Yep
Auburn is more of a middle class school. It's second richest in the state behind UA. UA is so rich because of the amount of people that come from all around the country and the overall student population. The tuition is about the same as auburn though. I've noticed most of the rich or "old money" famililies send their kids to bama because of the great business programs or whatever so most of their alumni is loaded. You have to remember auburn is the farming/engineering school so there's a reason the alumni are pretty rich but not loaded.
by: WOW!
"UA is so rich" "amount of people that come from all around the country"
WOW! Delusional much? Money in AL? Where?? There aren't many people outside of AL that choose to go to UA. Mainly a backup school....and mainly for the state of GA.
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by: Lol
Auburn and Alabama both are safety schools for kids who cant get into UGA so that's just dumb to say
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by: Truth
If your writing is a product of any Alabama school, you (we) should be embarrassed!
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by: @LOL
@LOL you're wrong about people who are not smart major in business. That's what marketing is for, which all the dumb kids I know from any college major in. Also if you want to compare peoples salaries with majors, compare agriculture majors with law school grads from UA.
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by: lol
by: But really
UA is mostly oos 51%. 75% of recruitment last year was oos students. No it's not just Georgia oos like Auburn. It's crazy how many people from the north and west go to that school.
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by: LOL
Auburn is MUCH harder to get into than Alabama, its harder to get scholarship money, and tuition is MORE than UA.
Why? Because Auburn attracts the cream of the crop, especially in STEM fields which is so predominant now.
If you want to make $40k off your AL business degree, go to Bama.
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by: Real
Let's be real...Auburn is still pretty easy to get into. They also don't have the resources to fund scholarships like some other schools.
Not much "cream of the crop" at Auburn...that's just the truth!
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by: @LOL
Stop being so delusional please @LOL. Yes a marketing degree will most likely give you a 40k salary right out of college but it would be the same at auburn. Bama's finance/accounting is considered to be much more prestigious and the overall business school has an edge over Auburn's. Just don't be ignorant like you sound, plus 40k isn't good but isn't terrible straight out of college. The degree will land you a job, and it's to the individual from there to move up and make more $$$.
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by: Brookie
I'm an AU student but I kinda have to defend @Yep. I'm from Mountain Brook, which is by far the richest area in the state of Alabama, and every year about 90% of the graduating class goes to Bama so I will agree Bama does have a lot of rich kids that go into Business. The rest go to Auburn or some small random school. I was so fed up with the snobby rich kids so I had to get away from all of them and went to Sewanee then Transferred to AU. So there's my 2 cents
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by: ^^^^^^
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by: Jen
by: Really
#9by: here's the real truth
there IS an actual reason that Auburn doesn't have houses for their sororities. The city of Auburn has a rule that only a certain amount of women can live together in a house or it would be considered a brothel. I don't remember HOW MANY women, but i know that's the rule. For a while a lot of people thought it was a rule in the state of Alabama, but clearly it's not since UA has sorority houses and so does Troy in Montgomery. Auburn is not at all considered a poor school, we have a lot of funding and support from alumni, so that's not the issue. Just a city rule that the university follows.
by: OMG!
OMG, you buffoons! If I hear the brothel thing one more time. That is just an old wives tale. Maybe to justify the lack of houses, but there is no law on the books. Show me!
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by: yep
Actually there is someting on the books- city zoning- that in certain zones you can't have more than 2 unrelated people living together. Trust me-ask all the property owners who live close to campus!
Also, the Village Dorms only opened up about 8 years ago. No way the university is going to loose all those sororities to houses so soon after building those dorms!
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by: ^^^^
That applies to rentals. Every college town has the same rules. Has nothing to do with sorority houses.
Try again....
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