Town and County, a lifestyle magazine, just printed a deep-dive story showing that many high school students and their families from the Northeast are suddenly looking to the South for higher education opportunities: “College applicants—including those from liberal Northern enclaves—are flocking to traditional southern schools, where the vibe is more rah-rah than radical reckoning.”

The article argues that this is part of a “growing trend among liberal hubs like New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago” where students are looking to move away from traditional schools of the Northeast to “southern institutions that have traditionally been written off by coastal snobs.” The piece is quick to mention that the biggest geographic subset of Tulane’s Class of 2026 is the 30% of students from the Northeast.