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re: SEC Admissions : ACT/SAT scores - 25th percentile and 75th percentile
Posted on 8/7/18 at 5:40 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 8/7/18 at 5:40 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Tennessee has a taken a step in their "bottom tier" quality because of the lottery as well. I guess that's good, and there needs to be a floor of inherent knowledge a kid needs to get into a competitive school, but I also think there is something to the "state" university being generally accessible for most kids in the state who worked hard and made decent grades.
The lottery has helped a ton to raise the floor *but* UT itself has to compete with its own multiple campuses plus the metric ton of 4 year colleges and universities in the state. We're sharing a lot of the brightest applicants with other universities in-state (not just Vanderbilt).
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Posted on 8/7/18 at 5:47 pm to SummerOfGeorge
This is one of the major reasons Texas balked at the SEC when the conference first approached them about expansion before settling for Aggie. Only Vandy is better and Florida is maybe on par.
Ironically it was a really stupid thing to consider. SEC football > Big XII
eta - stats for y'all
ACT 26-33 better than everyone but Vandy, comparable to Florida
SAT 1230-1460 better than everyone but Vandy, again comparable to Florida (our 75th percentile is a bit higher, 25th percentile a hair lower)
Ironically it was a really stupid thing to consider. SEC football > Big XII
eta - stats for y'all
ACT 26-33 better than everyone but Vandy, comparable to Florida
SAT 1230-1460 better than everyone but Vandy, again comparable to Florida (our 75th percentile is a bit higher, 25th percentile a hair lower)
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 5:50 pm to RogerTempleton
UGA ranked 16th overall in Public Colleges, while UT Austin is 18th. So they would be 4th in the SEC academically...
Let's not pretend they are too good for the SEC.
Let's not pretend they are too good for the SEC.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 5:55 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 5:59 pm to RogerTempleton
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This is one of the major reasons Texas balked at the SEC when the conference first approached them about expansion before settling for Aggie. Only Vandy is better and Florida is maybe on par.
Yes, because the B12 is practically Ivy League south.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:01 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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ACT 75th percentile (how smart are your smartest students)
2. Alabama - 32
Most likely football players that never attended class.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:02 pm to RogerTempleton
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This is one of the major reasons Texas balked at the SEC when the conference first approached them about expansion before settling for Aggie. Only Vandy is better and Florida is maybe on par.
Ironically it was a really stupid thing to consider. SEC football > Big XII
eta - stats for y'all
ACT 26-33 better than everyone but Vandy, comparable to Florida
SAT 1230-1460 better than everyone but Vandy, again comparable to Florida
Honestly, I've never understood that argument. It would be a recruiting advantage/bragging right to say well we are not only great at football but we're a top university and then compare yourself to whoever.
No one cares how a conference is ranked academically, only how the school they're looking at is ranked. Well I take that back, if you're an Ivy they care but they're the only conference where conference affiliation alone is enough to announce to the world how awesome you are academically.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:03 pm to G2160
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Yes, because the B12 is practically Ivy League south.
Lol they didn't stay because of academics. Academics was one of the factors in considering any move. Hell they really only entertained offers from the PAC 12 because of it.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:05 pm to RogerTempleton
There are some shite schools in the PAC12...
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:06 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:06 pm to Prof
Yeah, that's why I said it was a really stupid decision. Texas is pretentious AF. That is why they talked to the PAC 12 because the conference had "academic peers" and balked at the SEC. Who in their right mind would value the PAC 12 over the SEC for athletics 
The PAC 12 is a broken conference lol. The revenue the schools are pulling in from the PAC 12 network is pittance compared to the SEC and Big Ten. Hell, even the Big XII schools currently pull in more, and the Big XII was supposed to be on death's door.
The PAC 12 is a broken conference lol. The revenue the schools are pulling in from the PAC 12 network is pittance compared to the SEC and Big Ten. Hell, even the Big XII schools currently pull in more, and the Big XII was supposed to be on death's door.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:10 pm to SummerOfGeorge
frick off with this off-season thread. Football is 3 weeks away.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:11 pm to RogerTempleton
Scored a 24 on the ACT. Nearly had a perfect reading and grammar score, but absolutely bombed the math and science portions.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:14 pm to tigerskin
UGA’s method for admission is so confusing. Known a lot of high scoring, high gpa kids who didn’t even get waitlisted when denied, and I know some kids who pulled off a miracle to somehow get in regular decision.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:16 pm to RogerTempleton
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Lol they didn't stay because of academics. Academics was one of the factors in considering any move. Hell they really only entertained offers from the PAC 12 because of it.
If they chose to stay in an athletic conference that wasn’t good at athletics (football) or academics just so they could get their own athletics tv channel, how important were academics in the first place?
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:23 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Bama gives out stupidly generous scholarships to get the top students. They may have bumped it up now, but I know that full tuition for in state students was 30 on the ACT and I believe a 32 for OOS students.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:36 pm to Skyler97
ACT science is super easy in my opinion. Unless it has changed since I took it, it requires minimum outside knowledge as everything you need to know is given to you in the exam. It’s really all about can you interpret data and charts, and reading comprehension that is science flavored. I would guess most business professionals could ace that portion now. It’s similar to the GMAT integrated reasoning section, but that doesn’t necessarily confine itself to science.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:51 pm to Hugh McElroy
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But we're not. Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and A&M are clearly better academic institutions than Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, and State.
Really? How close do you think you compare to Georgia and Florida in this situation?
Now how close do you compare to LSU, Bama, Arkansas?
Posted on 8/7/18 at 6:58 pm to Pettifogger
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Missouri is surprising.
If you can fog a mirror and you graduated from Missouri high school, you’re probably going to get accepted to the University of Missouri.
The data I saw for 25th percentile was a 24 on the ACET. That might have changed with their desire for increased enrollment and the pressure on the school to drive up revenue. But a 24 would put us in the middle of the pack and that’s about where I to expect with The data I saw for 25th percentile was a 24 on the ACT. That might have changed with their desire for increased enrollment and the pressure on the school to drive up revenue. But a 24 would put us in the middle of the pack and that’s about where I Would expect to be.
This post was edited on 8/7/18 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 8/7/18 at 7:03 pm to blackoutdore
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ACT science is super easy in my opinion
The hardest part of the Science is getting over the mental block of having all those foreign terms thrown at you. You have to be able to realize that you don't actually need to understand any of that shite. I made a 30 on the science once i was able to look past all the bullshite terminology
Posted on 8/7/18 at 7:16 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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SAT 75th percentile (RW+M) (how smart are your smartest students)
1. Vanderbilt - 1550
2. Florida - 1410
Big 2.
Posted on 8/7/18 at 7:26 pm to SummerOfGeorge
But, but, we so dumb in South Cackalacki.
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