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Posted on 7/4/12 at 7:35 am to DCRebel
UT has not changed since I went to school in the mid 90s. About 18k in undergrad and 9k in grad school. I don't think they are going to increase anytime soon due to space, land,etc.
The admission requirements just seem to keep going up. When I went, if you had a 17-18 on your ACT and were from Tennessee, you were pretty much in. Now, I think average ACT is i the 27-29 range. Last year, I think they had 18k applicants for 4500 spots.
Anyone who doesn't get in UT now, goes to UT Chattanooga or MTSU for in state schools.
MTSU is the largest in Tennessee.
The admission requirements just seem to keep going up. When I went, if you had a 17-18 on your ACT and were from Tennessee, you were pretty much in. Now, I think average ACT is i the 27-29 range. Last year, I think they had 18k applicants for 4500 spots.
Anyone who doesn't get in UT now, goes to UT Chattanooga or MTSU for in state schools.
MTSU is the largest in Tennessee.
Posted on 7/4/12 at 10:22 am to DCRebel
Yeah I don't know what I think about Arkansas getting so big. It was a much smaller school when I attended.
Thankfully our campus is compact. Most of the growth is coming in the form of filling in existing parking lots or completing and adding wings to existing buildings, like this one. The addition will match and actually improve on this 1930s architecture on this one: LINK
The definite positive is that I had feared Fayetteville was growing away from being as much of a "college town" as it had been in the past with all of the regional population boom. The last wave of growth has definitely made Fayetteville even more of a college town. The student growth has led to more bars and more development in the downtown and adjacent areas.
In the 1980s, Fayetteville was basically Oxford in the hills. Now its growing beyond that, but the city has good infill guidelines and density zoning, great trails, and good overall development standards. Fayetteville is great, but in the next couple of years, the core of town is going to get even better. Well, if you like drunken college students stumbling everywhere...
Thankfully our campus is compact. Most of the growth is coming in the form of filling in existing parking lots or completing and adding wings to existing buildings, like this one. The addition will match and actually improve on this 1930s architecture on this one: LINK
The definite positive is that I had feared Fayetteville was growing away from being as much of a "college town" as it had been in the past with all of the regional population boom. The last wave of growth has definitely made Fayetteville even more of a college town. The student growth has led to more bars and more development in the downtown and adjacent areas.
In the 1980s, Fayetteville was basically Oxford in the hills. Now its growing beyond that, but the city has good infill guidelines and density zoning, great trails, and good overall development standards. Fayetteville is great, but in the next couple of years, the core of town is going to get even better. Well, if you like drunken college students stumbling everywhere...
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