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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 632094" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I think what it comes down to is what I used to call the "Ithaca Effect'. I've posted about this before.</p><p></p><p>I had a student transfer in to my college from Ithaca College. As it happened, I had visited the place with my son when he was looking for a school. (Ithaca and Cornell in one visit!) It was.a pretty nice school and, while we were and are pretty good, it had a better rep then my old college did. So when he came by to say he wanted to major in political science, I asked him why he came to us. "I hated Ithaca." he said. "Oh, come on." I replied, "It's a pretty good school and seemed inviting when we visited it." "No, no," he replied, "I liked the school. I hated <em>Ithaca</em>."</p><p></p><p>Some young men are going to like Atlanta. Others are going to think it's an urban hellhole. You can <em>talk</em> to them about this, but <em>convincing</em> them is another story. Our recruiting staff seems to succeed more often then not when a prospect visits Tech, but I'm guessing that this is because they have identified the recruits we can sell to very carefully before hand. Now that we are after the same young men that everyone else is, doing that is going to become both more difficult and more expensive. Let's hope Collins gets more help then Paul did. He's gong to need it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 632094, member: 265"] I think what it comes down to is what I used to call the "Ithaca Effect'. I've posted about this before. I had a student transfer in to my college from Ithaca College. As it happened, I had visited the place with my son when he was looking for a school. (Ithaca and Cornell in one visit!) It was.a pretty nice school and, while we were and are pretty good, it had a better rep then my old college did. So when he came by to say he wanted to major in political science, I asked him why he came to us. "I hated Ithaca." he said. "Oh, come on." I replied, "It's a pretty good school and seemed inviting when we visited it." "No, no," he replied, "I liked the school. I hated [I]Ithaca[/I]." Some young men are going to like Atlanta. Others are going to think it's an urban hellhole. You can [I]talk[/I] to them about this, but [I]convincing[/I] them is another story. Our recruiting staff seems to succeed more often then not when a prospect visits Tech, but I'm guessing that this is because they have identified the recruits we can sell to very carefully before hand. Now that we are after the same young men that everyone else is, doing that is going to become both more difficult and more expensive. Let's hope Collins gets more help then Paul did. He's gong to need it. [/QUOTE]
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