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created by Hello56845864 on 07/03/2025 at 22:38 UTC
86 upvotes, 67 top-level comments (showing 25)
I know this is a subreddit for Auburn as a whole but if you went to the university, what made you choose Auburn?
Comment by screwby71 at 07/03/2025 at 22:41 UTC
116 upvotes, 2 direct replies
All the kids from HS I hated went to Alabama.
Comment by GEISKM at 07/03/2025 at 22:48 UTC
61 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Took a campus tour and fell in love on the spot.
Comment by semi-bro at 07/03/2025 at 22:42 UTC*
52 upvotes, 1 direct replies
they offered me a bunch of money and waived my tuition
Comment by Carpetdime2024 at 07/03/2025 at 23:19 UTC
25 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I was raised in metro DC. Auburn and GA Tech were recommended by HS guidance counselor since I wanted to attend school someplace warm. During Springtime of Senior HS year, I flew to Columbus, GA From Dulles airport - temp was 40 degrees. Landed in Columbus, GA and temp was 78 degrees. Everyone was walking around in shorts. Told my father when I returned, I'll give Auburn a year and if I hated it, then I will transfer to University of Maryland. This was many moons ago.
Comment by eyeballtourist at 07/03/2025 at 23:16 UTC
22 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It had the only accredited Industrial Design program in my state. It was a very good place to study that focus at the time. I actually had some professors that were from the Bauhaus. Impressive resume for a "cow college".
Comment by wolfbagel at 07/03/2025 at 23:04 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Got offered a scholarship that paid for my school. But once I got there and got on campus I absolutely fell in love with it
Comment by Kenobi13 at 07/03/2025 at 22:49 UTC
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
My entire family were Auburn football fans, yet had never gone to school there. So I went to school there.
Comment by waregle82 at 08/03/2025 at 00:41 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I believe that this is a practical world
Comment by nick200117 at 07/03/2025 at 22:58 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The flight program, even though I ended up changing majors lol
Comment by wineguy64 at 07/03/2025 at 22:56 UTC
18 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It was the friendliest village on the plains
Comment by AuburnTiger15 at 08/03/2025 at 02:41 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I was a 5th generation legacy. It chose me. Ha
Comment by Dapup2465 at 07/03/2025 at 23:50 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Followed my older brother.
Comment by rex_swiss at 07/03/2025 at 23:10 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My Mom was the biggest Gator fan to ever wear orange and blue, but my Dad would not pay out-of-state tuition. So I visited Auburn and Tuscaloosa. Auburn instantly felt like home. Besides, this was the 70's and Alabama was full of very obnoxious Bear worshippers, which I was not going to be one of. Oh yeah, and Auburn's engineering school was heads and shoulders better than Bama's...
Comment by KarensTwin at 08/03/2025 at 03:56 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
better engineering school compared to UA
Comment by Billy-Hoyle21 at 07/03/2025 at 22:59 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I was born in 81.
Bo, Barkley, & Big Hurt were gods among mortals. AND they all went to Auburn!?!!
Count me in!
Comment by SurroundConstantly at 07/03/2025 at 23:55 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Bf went there
Comment by somber_soul at 08/03/2025 at 00:52 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm 3rd generation Auburn plus a full-ride.
Comment by kjhauburn at 08/03/2025 at 04:02 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
My Dad said I could go to whatever college I wanted but if I wanted him to pay for it, I'd go to Auburn.
It worked out in the end and I can't imagine having gone anywhere else.
Comment by royerr9954 at 07/03/2025 at 23:06 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
i grew up in north alabama. and all the preppy kids liked alabama. and all the poor kids like me usually liked auburn. i applied and got accepted. end of story .
Comment by beccabebe at 07/03/2025 at 23:16 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Closest Uni to my house
Comment by smw0010 at 08/03/2025 at 01:25 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
1. It was close to home (Montgomery), 2. they had a program that was appealing and 3. I was dating a girl in state. Otherwise, I actually always wanted to go to Virginia Tech. In the end, I have absolutely no regrets and I love Auburn with everything in me. And I graduated.
Comment by Head_Payment2358 at 08/03/2025 at 02:44 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
gave me almost a full ride and didn’t want to live in other universities dorms
Comment by tonykhanis_high at 08/03/2025 at 06:14 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Bama fans poison trees and tend to be less civilized
Comment by junknowho at 08/03/2025 at 20:52 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
LOL. To be honest, my grandfather and his daughter, my mother, are both graduates from that school on the NW side of the state. My parents took me to a UA homecoming game my junior year in high school and I HATED the students we encountered. I figured I'd hit UAB, but my best friend in high school was doing her visit to Auburn and I tagged along and fell in love. They had my major, the campus was gorgeous and back then the Eagle Cage was still on campus and I got to see the Eagle. I haven't left Auburn since, graduated and married a local boy.
Comment by Angry_Asparagus_2674 at 07/03/2025 at 23:27 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Pre graduation: they had the program I wanted, long story short my advisor gave me the wrong class and I couldn’t enroll in the major I wanted so I enrolled in one similar since I already had housing and everything else set up… post graduation: the people there are so different, I went to University of Alabama my freshman year and transferred… reason one being the people were awful and mean and if you were a female not in Greek life you were nothing, and two for my major. Auburn was so accepting of me and I mingled with people I normally would not surround myself with. I had gay, straight, liberal, conservative, and friend who hated football but loved basketball, friends who knew nothing about sports and introduced me to art. The people are what made the university for me
Edit: not enrolling in my preferred major was a blessing in disguise because now I’m a 24 year old landscape architect making huge moves in the industry and I couldn’t be more proud and happy for myself.
