Admission rates are very misleading and a worthless static. They only way those numbers mean anything is if they show the average ACT stats for those who were denied admissions.

The other issue is there are a large number of instate students who are accepted into Bama on a "Special Admission" waiver. The school does not include them on their reported stats. Right now Bama is fighting to keep the in-state population near 50%, without those Special entries it would be impossible.

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Posted by Old Hellen Yeller

New Orleans

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:10 pm to Irons Puppet

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The other issue is there are a large number of instate students who are accepted into Bama on a "Special Admission" waiver. The school does not include them on their reported stats.

You have never, not once, provided any sort of evidence to support this claim. If UA was doctoring reported stats it would be a scandal of the highest order.

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Right now Bama is fighting to keep the in-state population near 50%

Except they aren't. Check the breakdown of instate vs oos posted earlier.

Im not sure why UA's academic improvement threatens you so much, but it is really pathetic how you try so hard to disparage a school you have zero connection to. You try to run down Alabama in literally every thread on this topic.

This post was edited on 3/2/16 at 3:15 pm

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Posted by RT1941

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Posted on 3/2/16 at 3:17 pm to Irons Puppet

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Right now Bama is fighting to keep the in-state population near 50%, without those Special entries it would be impossible.

This is totally not true. Alabama's OOS student population is currently at 65% and has been growing for years. If they were fighting to keep in-state student levels at 50% then why the hell have they allowed the OOS population to grow exponentially in the last decade?

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