re: Dan Patrick discussing rates of acceptance at SEC schools

For some state schools, it's more important to educate their citizens than to play stupid elitist games with rankings.

It's a better way to foster economic growth in your state.

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For some state schools, it's more important to educate their citizens than to play stupid elitist games with rankings.

It's a better way to foster economic growth in your state.

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Thank you. I'm just wondering when we get past this stigma that if we go to University XYZ we're better than you.

I know a lot of people who are trade school educated that are doing a lot better than your average University grad.

Nobody gives a shite where you graduated from you pretentious, dicks. Can you get the job done or not?

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Thank you. I'm just wondering when we get past this stigma that if we go to University XYZ we're better than you.

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I spent a year at Ole Miss. I transferred there my junior year to take several classes in the English and History departments. David Sansing was a well known professor of Southern History, and I wanted to study under him. I was also considering becoming a writer, and the English department was top notch. As good as any in the country. I did graduate work at one of those highly rated schools in creative writing, The English department at Ole Miss was just as good if not better.

It's changed a lot, but I always loved my time in Oxford. I'd sit under a big tree in the Grove and study a lot. It was hard, however, to focus since there was so many beautiful girls walking by. Every day I thought I'd seen the prettiest, until the next day and there was one even prettier.

I tried to meet 'em all at the Gin. Great times.

Speaking of the prettiest, I'd say in my time it was Kathy Manning. Yes, related to Archie. What a beauty she was. Still might be the prettiest girl that ever walked that campus.

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It's a better way to foster economic growth in your state.

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No, no it’s not. Accepting kids who don’t belong in college is a great way to saddle your state with 100s of millions in student loan debt.

I’ve posted this before but the company I work for hires grads of every SEC school and Ole Miss kids are consistently the most unprepared. I chalk it up to being unable to stop the party.

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Jerrell Powe left there and couldn’t read.

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Zion got into DUKE on his classroom ability?????

If you are exceptional people will make exceptions.
Scholarship athletes and common students should not be put into the same categories. ( money generators) if you bring a financial gain to the university then you should get a exception.
Rowing, tennis, golf ,swimming ext.
All the sports scholarships that are financial negatives should be held to the same standard as a academic scholarship for acceptance.

Hell the ivy league school s are dropping traditional standards to become inclusive, screw the tradition or significance of what a diploma meant from these schools.

The service academies are even dropping standards in the name of dei , this may be on pause w/ Trump.
When you fail to meet the standard of the past you will only fail in the future.

This isn’t news. Hell, even in Arkansas the line has always been “if you can’t get into Arkansas, Ole Miss will take you”. I will say though that they have a great writing program and clearly decent law school based on what they’ve been able to accomplish in retaining Trinidad Chambliss’s services.

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Acceptance rate is a highly overrated metric.

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It’s a bit misleading without further information. For example it would be used as an indicator of how popular your school is. For example, if Ole Piss student body was 10,000 students but only 10,309 students applied, well they have to accept 10,000 students to get to the population that they want, or 97% of their applicants.

If you are Harvard and you have 1 million students apply but only have room for 30,000, well your acceptance rate is going to be a lot smaller.

So maybe this number tells us that nobody wants to go to Ole Piss?

Also, I’d love to see who the 3% is here… especially the racial breakdown of them given the ‘Black Bears’ history.

Typo on my phone lol