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re: Ranking the SEC schools academically?
Posted on 1/3/13 at 11:50 am to rolltide06
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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Posted on 1/3/13 at 12:03 pm to aggressor
It's Vanderbilt and everyone else.
Most SEC schools are BY DESIGN meant to provide an educated workforce for their own state first w/ some regional consideration. Arguments over whether Arkansas is better than Tenn are a joke b/c unless you're applying for a job w/in those states or the HR person taking a look at your app is an alum the person isn't going to assign any greater weight to your education. So UGA grads will have a leg up in ATL, Bama in Birmingham, but neither gets special consideration applying for jobs in NYC.
There are minor differences b/w programs at certain schools (USC has #1 Int'l Biz program in world) but these do not make an appreciable difference on public perception of the school (and shouldn't, b/c the majority of your school's grads don't get a degree in your one or two first class programs).
Most SEC schools are BY DESIGN meant to provide an educated workforce for their own state first w/ some regional consideration. Arguments over whether Arkansas is better than Tenn are a joke b/c unless you're applying for a job w/in those states or the HR person taking a look at your app is an alum the person isn't going to assign any greater weight to your education. So UGA grads will have a leg up in ATL, Bama in Birmingham, but neither gets special consideration applying for jobs in NYC.
There are minor differences b/w programs at certain schools (USC has #1 Int'l Biz program in world) but these do not make an appreciable difference on public perception of the school (and shouldn't, b/c the majority of your school's grads don't get a degree in your one or two first class programs).
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