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re: Academic Rankings 2018 - SEC
Posted on 10/19/18 at 1:52 pm to jawjaTiger
Posted on 10/19/18 at 1:52 pm to jawjaTiger
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#2 Florida
No way! Correspondence courses from prison should not count...
Posted on 10/19/18 at 5:08 pm to GetmorewithLes
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quote: Also, UA attracts a larger number of top students (ACT of 33 or higher) than any other SEC School, save Texas A&M. That's a rather subjective definition of "top students"... UA's freshman class was larger overall 6600 or so to 5700ish... so using raw totals does make it possible to claim a perceived edge, but that's like comparing total yards instead of yards per carry... surely you find YPC to be a necessary statistic for context, no? UGA's middle 50% of ACT scores in 2018 was 28-33 - so a higher bottom and top (marginally) end on the middle 50%. Our average was 30. UA's average was 27... putting 75% of UGA's incoming class above the average for admission into UA. Didn't see a raw median value anywhere to use as reference for either. Nevermind that SAT is a more commonly taken Standardized test in the state of GA compared to ACT in Alabama. UGA: SAT Middle 50% of Admitted First-Year Students: 1320-1490 UA: quote: SAT Math 586 average 520-640 range of middle 50% SAT Critical Reading 591 average 530-640 range of middle 50% That would amount to a middle 50% of 1050-1280... Our average HS GPA of all incoming freshmen was 4.07 to UA's 3.72. Larger number of top students ya say...
I stand by what I wrote. Most students attending UA submit the ACT, so not sure why UGA relying on SAT is relevant to my point. You can convert the ACT to SAT and get a fairly consistent conversion.
Also, last Fall's Freshman class at UA was over 7400. You are using this Fall's numbers, which was a big drop from the trend over the last decade. I never said UA's AVERAGE or MEDIAN was larger. My point is that top students seem to find UA very attractive, despite its generally poorer (somewhat undeserved, sometimes deserved) academic reputation.
This post was edited on 10/19/18 at 5:11 pm
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