Last month, The Wall Street Journal ran a feature story titled, “Sorry, Harvard. Everyone Wants to Go to College in the South Now,” that circulated widely among alumni. Capped by a full-width shot of the Ramblin’ Wreck, flanked with cheerleaders, leading the football team onto the field, the article covers an enrollment surge among Southern research universities that goes back about two decades and has grown even more considerable recently. Notably, this dramatic jump in out-of-state enrollment among schools in the South is being led almost exclusively by public institutions like Georgia Tech.