re: Academic Rankings 2018 - SEC

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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...

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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.