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re: SEC Admissions : ACT/SAT scores - 25th percentile and 75th percentile
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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However, the counter would be that the state lotto programs make it harder to get into the big school which helps trickle down better students to secondary schools and improves them. I think what really happens is those kids who can't quite make the cut are split between the Georgia Southern/MTSUs of the world and the Alabama/Auburn/Ole Miss' of the world.
Yeah the chain is getting longer. I suspect Auburn and Alabama are pushing kids to Ole Miss these days. Whereas we (AU/UA) may have been fallbacks at one point, now we've got our own fallbacks we feed. People want the experience and they'll pay for it. SMU is a school that really benefitted from that, for example.
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Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:11 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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This goes over well.
Update : so far...............it has?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:12 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Better than expected, actually. Waiting for the typical nonsense about an Alabama education.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:12 pm to Pettifogger
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Vandy
UGA/UF/A&M (no order)
Alabama/Auburn
Pretty impressive for the state of Alabama to have two large state schools in the Top 6 of the SEC.
Tennessee and Missouri have much larger populations and only one big state public school that's enticing for kids to want to attend, yet perform worse academically.
Alabama has about the same population as Louisiana and Kentucky too.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:13 pm to BHMKyle
The constant drive to out-do the other. In all things.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:13 pm to BHMKyle
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Pretty impressive for the state of Alabama to have two large state schools in the Top 6 of the SEC.
Same with South Carolina
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Dammit now I'm getting banner ads for the Wonderlic test.
This website is to blame for all my cookies.
This website is to blame for all my cookies.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:14 pm to Bluefin
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Bluefin
I don't necessarily blame you. USC and Tennessee are both moving steadily up of late, but I don't think the consensus will catch up for a while.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Same with South Carolina
Yes, them too.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:16 pm to tylerdurden24
UGA with a Med School and a College of Engineering even dating back just 50 years would put us in the top 10 public schools. As it is, both programs are in their infancy.
Athens sales itself to high end professors. Most of my professor in my major were Ivy or Oxford educated.
Athens sales itself to high end professors. Most of my professor in my major were Ivy or Oxford educated.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:16 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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The constant drive to out-do the other. In all things.
Well this, and Atlanta
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:17 pm to lewis and herschel
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Athens sales itself to high end professors
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Most of my professor in my major were Ivy or Oxford educated.
You should ask for your money back
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:17 pm to Pettifogger
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so you're saying the State of Alabama was ahead of its time
I knew it
I got an acceptance letter from Auburn that stated they needed to see my ACT scores, then the very next day got another letter stating I was good to go. it was weird.
I took the ACT's with one of the biggest hangovers I have ever had, even threw up during. Still got an awesome score
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:18 pm to Pettifogger
I don’t know the numbers, but Dallas and Houston may have a bigger overall impact for Alabama than Atlanta. Alabama has a larger out-of-state student population than in-state.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:19 pm to NYCAuburn
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Dont know if just a Northern thing, but most of the schools I applied to up north or looked at, required ACT
Actually, admission requirements can depend more on the type of institution.
Many top schools—often private—accept standardized test scores as supplemental documents, but don’t require them.
Variables like class rank and GPA, along with “outside of the box” admissions packets go farther with those selection committees, who court candidates who aren’t categorized by “crude” testing metrics.
As an anecdote ... a close family friend of ours was accepted with full softball schollies at both Rice and Stanford. Her application consisted of a dossier of her four years in HS, along with a digital, simulated file of her acting as a sportscaster, describing her personal achievements. They ate it up. She was also admitted to Brown and Yale, though she didn’t receive the same scholarship offers.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:19 pm to NYCAuburn
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I took the ACT's with one of the biggest hangovers I have ever had, even threw up during. Still got an awesome score
My ACT was not awesome. I didn't prep and it was much worse than my SAT score.
Thankfully, Auburn at that point wasn't too concerned
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:20 pm to lewis and herschel
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Most of my professor in my major were Ivy or Oxford educated.
Terry College of Business has been pulling some insanely good business people into the world of teaching. Looking up some professor's salaries helped me see just how UGA was pulling this off. Terry is just swimming in money at this point, and it reflects with how they're able to hire these people.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:20 pm to EKG
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As an anecdote ... a close family friend of ours was accepted on a full softball scholly at both Rice and Stanford. Her application consisted of a dossier of her four years in HS, along with a digital, simulated file of her acting as a sportscaster, describing her personal achievements. They ate it up. She was also admitted to Brown and Yale, though she didn’t receive the same scholarship offers.
My admissions to Alabama included a video tape of me explaining my suggestions to Coach Shula on the best way to creatively use the Maryland I. They ate it up.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:21 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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I expect a lot of nuanced conversation
It’s the refs fault
Posted on 8/7/18 at 4:21 pm to Pettifogger
I only took the ACT. Made a 26. Obviously not impressive. But along with other parts of the application process I got scholarships for engineering at Alabama. But that was 2001. No way I’d get that great of a deal now.
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