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re: Division 1 Schools Admissions Rate by Conference: 2023 Freshman Class
Posted on 12/19/23 at 6:51 am to MrWalkingMan
Posted on 12/19/23 at 6:51 am to MrWalkingMan
What is the average application like?
What laws does each state have regarding acceptance?
Is a particular school publicly or privately funded?
Numbers like these lack context.
What laws does each state have regarding acceptance?
Is a particular school publicly or privately funded?
Numbers like these lack context.
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Posted on 12/19/23 at 6:56 am to iglass
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Additionally, acceptance rates can be skewed by what the university WANTS to do.
Some schools, University of Chicago, encourage tens of thousands of kids they know aren’t qualified to apply..to keep acceptance rate very low. They’ve been hounded my child and while he has good grades and scores they aren’t UC good.
This post was edited on 12/19/23 at 6:57 am
Posted on 12/19/23 at 8:28 am to MrWalkingMan
Ole miss is the go-to backup backup backup school for out of state kids, especially in Georgia and Texas.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 8:31 am to TheCheshireHog
quote:Think about this with logic. Ole Miss and State have the same acceptance requirements. If Ole Miss is accepting at a higher rate, that must mean Mississippi State has a lot of dumbasses that apply there but don’t make it in. Ergo, Ole Miss students are actually more intelligent on average.
Mississippi State has a 75% acceptance rate. Maybe it’s changed today but back when I was in school 97% wasn’t on par with 75%.
We get a ton of kids who didn’t get into Texas or Georgia
This post was edited on 12/19/23 at 8:32 am
Posted on 12/19/23 at 8:41 am to MrWalkingMan
These rankings are easily manipulated by how a school targets their recruiting pitch and how they want their school to be perceived. If you want to spend a crapload in recruiting to encourage way more kids to apply than will ever be accepted, that is an easy way to make your school look more prestigious. A low acceptance rate is a great thing to point to when soliciting donations from alumni.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 9:09 am to PeleofAnalytics
I looked it up and am surprised that only 67k applied to Florida as cheap as it is for in-state students. I don't know if that is a lot, but it doesn't seem like a lot. 2/3 of the students who were accepted to UF didn't choose to attend UF. They accepted somewhere around 15k and the 2023 freshman class is like 6k. I know they are probably the fall back school for a lot of kids who are trying to get into some really good schools, like my sister, who ended up at Vanderbilt.
Yeah no pics, horndogs.
Yeah no pics, horndogs.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 9:56 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Think about this with logic. Ole Miss and State have the same acceptance requirements. If Ole Miss is accepting at a higher rate, that must mean Mississippi State has a lot of dumbasses that apply there but don’t make it in. Ergo, Ole Miss students are actually more intelligent on average.
No, all it means is Ole Miss gets more applicants who meet the pitiful state admission requirements.
Considering the two schools' enrollments are nearly dead even, acceptance to Ole Miss is getting turned down much more often than State, likely by the applicants with better resumes when they get into the school they actually want to go to.
So it likely gives the edge to State in overall student quality.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:00 am to MrWalkingMan
Is Ole Miss trying to pump their numbers up? I think they are the next to smallest university in the SEC. Only being larger than Vanderbilt.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:01 am to MNW
quote:Which means that State gets more applicants that don’t meet those requirements. Which proves my point
No, all it means is Ole Miss gets more applicants who meet the pitiful state admission requirements.
This post was edited on 12/19/23 at 10:02 am
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:03 am to MississippiBlue
Hopkins plays lacrosse with Big10, but no other sport as far as I know. So I suppose the Big10 can list Hopkins to improve their stats and this is accurate for the one sport in which JHU participates.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:03 am to Hawgeye
quote:We are larger than State but they don’t like when we include the medical school numbers because “it’s not in Oxford” and “there are Mississippi State grads that go there!”
Is Ole Miss trying to pump their numbers up? I think they are the next to smallest university in the SEC. Only being larger than Vanderbilt.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:03 am to Henry Jones Jr
Another factor that impacts this as well - Ole Miss, for better or worse, has a lot of out-of-state students paying out-of-state tuition. If they meet requirements, one certainly isn't going to turn them away.
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:08 am to Insideradvantage
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Ole Miss, for better or worse, has a lot of out-of-state students paying out-of-state tuition
They seem very generous with scholarships to OOS students
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:08 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Which means that State gets more applicants that don’t meet those requirements. Which proves my point
Are you under the impression that students who don't get accepted are allowed to enroll in the school anyway?
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:13 am to PeleofAnalytics
FWIW, last I looked Texas lets in 31% of applicant and aggy lets in 71%...
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:16 am to MrWalkingMan
Where did these numbers come from?
Auburn admits about 80% of applicants, and it’s been that way for decades.
ETA: Found the source. US News & World Report incorrectly cited Auburn’s early action numbers, and not their overall acceptance rate. AU has a min GPA of 2.5. They aren’t turning away 50% of applicants.
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Auburn admits about 80% of applicants, and it’s been that way for decades.
ETA: Found the source. US News & World Report incorrectly cited Auburn’s early action numbers, and not their overall acceptance rate. AU has a min GPA of 2.5. They aren’t turning away 50% of applicants.
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The university’s 2023 early action decisions extend from October to January, with regular decisions being announced in March. The acceptance rate for Auburn’s early action periods was 44% for a total of 20,000 acceptances.
This post was edited on 12/19/23 at 10:21 am
Posted on 12/19/23 at 10:36 am to MNW
At most schools that is not the case but I have a hard time thinking a Mississippi State is turning students away that qualify. Especially if they get the same number of applicants we do.
This post was edited on 12/19/23 at 10:37 am
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