re: 2024 U.S. News College rankings

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If this was the case wouldn't the average ACT for incoming freshmen be a lot lower compared to UA? Last time I saw it was like 27 for AU and a little over 26 for UA. That is not a huge difference.

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This is part of the gaming of the system that I posted about earlier. UAT takes its low scoring students as "provisional admissions" and has them start in Summer term. Then they use the ACT/SAT scores from the Fall admissions to get a higher overall average. UAT is not the only school that does this - I even wish AU would do it - but the actual difference between UATs incoming freshman class and AU's is much greater than 1 point. US News now accounts for this in their rankings, they didn't used to do that.