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re: Ranking the SEC schools academically?
Posted on 1/3/13 at 10:30 am to Irons Puppet
Posted on 1/3/13 at 10:30 am to Irons Puppet
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One of US News ranking criterias is acceptance rates. Bama's is in the 40% because every redneck with a GED from Alabama applies and they get to pad their numbers with those rejections. Bama's President has pushed had to bring the enrollment to 30K+ that the student body is waterdowned with marginal students.
Yep, we are all inbred rednecks that are marginal students. You are ignorant.
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The University of Alabama’s fall 2012 freshman class includes 239 National Merit Scholars, an increase of 32 percent over fall 2011. While 2012 rankings are not available yet, UA ranked 2nd in the nation among public universities in the enrollment of National Merit Scholars in 2011 with 181 scholars in the freshman class.
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The University of Alabama led the nation with a record 10 students named to USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. UA has had great success in placing students on this national team that honors the “best of the best” undergraduate academic all-stars from across the nation, having placed 46 students on the team since 2003. In addition to this year, UA also had the most students on the list in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 and tied for the top spot in 2007.
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The University of Alabama’s graduates and students include 15 Rhodes Scholars, and in the past 25 years, UA has produced 37 Goldwater Scholars, 8 Truman Scholars, 19 Hollings Scholars, two Javits Fellows, one Udall Scholar and one Portz Scholar.
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Posted on 1/3/13 at 10:32 am to rolltide06
How many of those merit scholars are from Bama? I have no idea and it's not a flame. One of the issues I have with UF now is all the out of state students and foreigners eating up space that should be used for Florida residents first.
Is Bama experiencing the same thing?
Is Bama experiencing the same thing?
Posted on 1/3/13 at 11:50 am to rolltide06
It's easy to get National Merit Scholars to go to your school, you just pay them. OU is doing the same thing, they literally pay those kids so much in scholarships they are making a nice income to go there and thus be able to throw out the nice stat. If you think a National Merit Scholar from California really is choosing Bama or OU over Stanford and UC Berkeley because of educational value you are smoking something. It's a smart strategy to get some academic cred because it is a lot easier than getting an extra hundred mill a year in research dollars.
Baylor actually takes the cake in "gaming" the system though. They actually pay their students to retake SAT's after admission and reward them for getting higher scores so they can boost their stats.
Baylor actually takes the cake in "gaming" the system though. They actually pay their students to retake SAT's after admission and reward them for getting higher scores so they can boost their stats.
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