re: SEC Admissions : ACT/SAT scores - 25th percentile and 75th percentile

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Read as: Just have a pulse.

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Just need to spell your name correctly.

Really don’t want to respond to this, but federal courts have forced many of us to lower standardized admissions scores. Which is what this is based on. The more you know, the more you understand. These types of comparisons don’t hold water in the real world.

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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.

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That would make sense if Texas was in the Pac12 or B1G........but they were/are in the B12.

South Carolina, the state, is one of the fastest growing in the country.

The simple factor of increased demand has helped USC and the othe big in-state school to be more selective with admissions.

Consider the state of Mississippi. The state of Mississippi has a flat to shrinking population. The only way the two big state schools can be more selective going forward is to cut student enrollment and we know that’s not gonna happen since less students mean less money to cover all those fixed annual costs.

Someone mentioned all the out of state students with poor academics that have enrolled at Ole Miss and MSU. I wouldn’t be surprised if the in-state / OOS ratio approaches a level where there are more OOS students at both schools.

In South Carolina, the public funding for public universities has gone to almost nothing and so it is rumored an OOS applicant has a better chance of admission than an in-state applicant because the school makes more money from OOS students. The Mississippi schools are likely taking more OOS kids for both financial and state population factors.

SAT vs ACT test takers

I think South Carolina has solid upside. I don't think the brand is very good (no offense) but South Carolina doesn't have the stigma of schools in Alabama/Mississippi/Arkansas, IMO. That's probably not fair to those states, but nonetheless true.

I question how high South Carolina (although I see no reason it can't continue to rise) can go simply because South Carolina, like Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, etc., lacks a major professional hub. I love Greenville and Charleston but those still aren't the economic feeders/drivers that other surging states have.

I’ll take lower test scores if it meant more football wins

I may have missed it, but didn't see anyone bring up A&M's top 10% auto-acceptance. There are tons of people who are top 10% caliber students (for their high school) who do not excel at standardized tests. I think this is probably the biggest hindrance to our numbers not being higher.

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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.

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Tennesseee...by most state standards, does not really have any "big schools" Tennessee State Schools by size:

Largest Sized Schools (20,000-30,000)
University of Tennessee - 30,000
Middle Tennessee State University - 23,000
University of Memphis - 21,000

Medium Sized State Schools (10,000-20,000)
UT Chattanooga - 12,000
East Tennessee State University - 15,000
Austin Peay - 11,000
Tennessee Tech - 10,000

And...of course, only one substantial sized private school
Vanderbilt - 13,000

All other universities in the state are less than 10,000 students.

Compare that to Texas which as 7 schools with over 30,000 students.

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Also I can see what A&M is doing and I like it. They have room (real estate) to grow and are keeping their culture by not making it damn near impossible for regular students to get in. Florida is getting way too nerdy for my taste. I see lots of kids growing up as Gator fans because one or two of their parents went there and they end up going to UCF, USF or another SEC school because they can't get in.

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This is pretty much exactly why Sharp and the powers that be made the decision to let A&M grow to 75,000 students. There has always been hostility between the political leadership at A&M and the academic leadership at A&M. The former wanted to keep A&M accessible, and the latter wanted to improve it's academic profile. The political leadership won. We'll see what that means for A&M.