re: Businessweek rates the value of a college degree

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Not saying bama is a bad school but yall are doing a terrible job of luring in top students. Sorry.

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LINK

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The USA Today All-USA College Academic Team honors the "best of the best" undergraduate academic all-stars from across the nation. The team recognizes college students who not only excel in scholarship but also extend their intellectual abilities beyond the classroom to benefit society. The University of Alabama once again leads the nation with five students named to USA Today’s 2009 All-USA College Academic Team. Laura Dover, a junior from Jasper majoring in philosophy and Spanish; Adam Knight, a senior biology major from Tuscaloosa, and Ynhi Thai, a junior from Long Beach, Miss., majoring in chemical and biological engineering, have been named to the Second Team. Laura Godorecci, a senior from Northport, majoring in interdisciplinary studies and classics, was named to the Third Team. Alexander Flachsbart, a senior economics and political science major from Concord, Calif., was named an Honorable Mention. UA has the most team members of any school with five. Harvard, the U.S. Naval Academy, Louisiana State University, Florida State University and Southern Illinois University each have three team members. This year’s team brings UA’s total for the last seven years to 36, a figure that tops all other colleges and universities. In addition to this year, UA had the most students on the list in 2008 with seven, in 2006 with six and in 2005 and 2003, both with five.

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Alabama:

Admissions

* Admissions Selectivity Rating:
84
* SAT:

* Reading Middle 50%:
500 - 600
* Math Middle 50%:
500 - 620
* ACT:

* ACT Middle 50%:
21 - 28
* Math Middle 50%:
20 - 27
* English Middle 50%:
22 - 30
* Average HS GPA:
3.47

Auburn

Admissions

* Admissions Selectivity Rating:
89
* SAT:

* Reading Middle 50%:
520 - 640
* Math Middle 50%:
540 - 660
* Writing Middle 50%:
510 - 620
* ACT:

* ACT Middle 50%:
23 - 29
* Math Middle 50%:
22 - 28
* English Middle 50%:
24 - 30
* Writing Middle 50%:
6 - 8
* Average HS GPA:
3.69

Per Princeton Review... so it's closer than I realized, but still Auburn is the harder school to get into by a solid margin.

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Not saying bama is a bad school but yall are doing a terrible job of luring in top students. Sorry.

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Getting back to sports... Bama had 101 Academic Honor Roll athlete students, Auburn 61.

I feel like I'm explaining this to a 5 year old.... yall had 5,000 more applicants and accepted roughly the same number we did.

This is where acceptance rate comes from... it has NOTHING to do with the academics of those students.

So true attheua. Auburn fans use to arrogantly throw U.S. News and World report rankings in the faces of Alabama fans as if it was the gospel truth. That was until Bama pulled even and in some cases ahead in recent years. They the questioned the validity of the rankings. Alabama has been ranked in the World University rankings the last three years while Auburn has not. This is the ranking of the top 400 universities in the world that U.S. News does using a different methodology. Auburn didn`t crack the top 600 in the latest ranking. Bama was #337. As for Auburn supposedly being much harder to get into, I know too many academically marginal students that got into Auburn to fall for that garbage. Vandy, Florida, and Georgia are the only SEC schools that are remotely difficult to get into. The rest of the SEC has an average incoming ACT average around a 25. In fact, Auburn and Alabama have practically identical average ACT in this range foe incoming freshmen.

I see what you did there. NICE!!!!!