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re: Ranking the SEC schools academically?
Posted on 1/3/13 at 6:53 pm to Irons Puppet
Posted on 1/3/13 at 6:53 pm to Irons Puppet
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That is my point. Of those 22,136 applicants, how many met the minimum qualifications ? Every kid who is a bammer football fan will pay their $50 application fee
That's such a weak arguement. I could say the exact same thing about Auburn, and like you, I would have nothing but guesswork to back it up with.
I'm sure the number of applicants does go up when the football program is doing well due to increased exposure but those applicants aren't limited to the unqualified. Out of state applicants and enrollment is largely driving the growth and those students are much less likely to be Bama fans. As you and others have stated, Bama has made a concerted effort to nationally recruit scholastic standouts, but you won't accept that as causing an increase in average ACT scores. No, it has to be Bama fudging the numbers.
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Posted on 1/3/13 at 7:46 pm to sarc
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That's such a weak arguement. I could say the exact same thing about Auburn, and like you, I would have nothing but guesswork to back it up with. I'm sure the number of applicants does go up when the football program is doing well due to increased exposure but those applicants aren't limited to the unqualified. Out of state applicants and enrollment is largely driving the growth and those students are much less likely to be Bama fans. As you and others have stated, Bama has made a concerted effort to nationally recruit scholastic standouts, but you won't accept that as causing an increase in average ACT scores. No, it has to be Bama fudging the numbers.
Auburn has a higher acceptance rate and higher ACT scores, so you can not use the same arguement. And their nationally recruiting of scholastic standouts does not hold water either, Auburn had more NMS last year than bama. Bama has had to recruit students from out of state because the numbers in Alabama can not support the growth. Alabama is having to offer more money in schollies to lure the out of state students away from home schools. The numbers fudging is a factor of parents and students looking at these guides to select their future schools.
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