In state students applying to UA

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how does a decision like this not have to go before the BoT?

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That's a really good point. This is a landmark decision and one you can't really undue once it's done.

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There's a much higher correlation with GPA and college success than ACT/SAT scores. Also, you'll need entrance exams to get any kind of scholarship.

Here's a study done by UChicago

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In education, and this is completely true. Also true in my own life. I was an awesome standardized test taker, but I had a shite work ethic when I went to college due to high school having been really easy and not applying myself. I got a full ride at the UofA from test scores then lost it. I finally managed to drag my grades up (mainly by switching to an easier major). Then I got into grad school easily again due to my GRE scores. I did fine, but I didn't kill it.

My wife is a horrible test taker and barely got into the UofA. She destroyed college. Then she, once again, barely got into graduate school due to her GRE scores. When she did, she ended up destroying graduate school as well, being published several times, getting research assistantships, and all kinds of other indicators of "killing it" in college.

this, all of this....

3.875 gpa from HS.. Standardized tests killed me... And I worked three jobs to pay for my degrees, not many scholarships until I applied after a couple of years and proved myself. Then was a Grad Intern, taught a few classes for my professor, etc.

Paid all loans back by working by rear off, and the blessings of others. No government freebies.

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Paid all loans back by working by rear off, and the blessings of others. No government freebies.

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Work harder, libs need your tax dollars.

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Paid all loans back by working by rear off, and the blessings of others. No government freebies.

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It is all a scam man. Friend of mine has a kid who is brilliant but lazy in school. C student. He pays 1200 bucks for the ACT prep course through some corp. She makes a very high score on the ACT and gets almost complete scholarship to the UofA. Then flunks out of the classes.

My kid struggles in school but winds up with 3.78 gpa at the High school level. The education sucks. Then a 24 on the ACT which didn't help much, but she invested herself with service projects in the community and state and wound up with some awesome scholarships. Struggled her 1st semester until she understood what a college education was like (HS did not prepare her for it at all) and now has a 3.85 gpa. I know, TLDR!

As others have said there if you are good at taking the ACT/SAT/BRB or what have you that does not mean you will be a good student. I can't remember my ACT score but I crushed it. I was, however, a lousy student my first go around in college.