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The next Aubarn or A&M jackass that tries to identify salary statistics as proof of career success will prove the ultimate "case in point." Thank you all for exemplifying first-hand the inability of engineering grads to engage reading comprehension and form cogent rebuttals.

This is why Auburn and A&M will serve as perennial backup schools for their state's flagship universities.

A last statistic:
Auburn has an 80% ACCEPTANCE RATE.
A&M has a 70% ACCEPTANCE RATE.

In other words, your school is a fricking joke. How can any university that takes 7 - 8 / 10 applicants possibly be taken seriously?

It is more difficult to be REJECTED from Auburn or A&M than to get in

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The biggest BS stat in College Academics. When you have a Lottery that gives scholarships for having a B average, everybody in the state will apply for the 8K slots. A state the size of GA must produce 50K HS students a year that fits that profile. And you wonder why UGA Acceptance rate is so low. Again the best factor to determine selectivity of a school is the average SAT Score of those rejected. You never see those stats published by Universities.

Part of me thinks the word engineering triggers a lot of the UGA peeps because of the proximity to GT

just one man’s humble opinion

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Part of me thinks the word engineering triggers a lot of the UGA peeps because of the proximity to GT

just one man’s humble opinion

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I don’t really know a lot of UGA people but I find it hilarious how upset this dude is and how he is randomly targeting A&M as well

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The Georgia score is entirely the result of the HOPE scholarship. Georgia has to continuously raise its academic standards as a way of weeding through otherwise qualified applicants and to prevent grade inflation at the HS level from being too much of a factor.

While very difficult to get in as a freshman, its much easier to get in as a sophomore after 1st year weeds out those who got in on basis of HS grade inflation.

Florida I think is much the same due to lottery funded scholarships. That one I am not 100 percent sure about but have been told this in past.

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What does the Hope have to do with this thread. UGA has the second highest SAT scores of any school in the SEC. I know of several kids who couldn’t get into UGA, so they were forced to go to Auburn, Bama, etc. They didn’t have the standardized test scores to get into UGA, but those scores were fine at Alabama schools. It is what it is, no matter how you cut it. UGA is a much higher ranked academic institution than Auburn and Alabama by every measure, no matter what the reason.

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What does the Hope have to do with this thread. UGA has the second highest SAT scores of any school in the SEC

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Like I posted before. GA produces over 50K HS students each year with a B or better average in order to receive the Hope Scholarship. I'm guessing UGA accepts 8K ever year. So you can understand how acceptance rates and SAT scores can be affected. It has everything to do with the Hope Scholarship.

How many out of state students do they accept every year ?

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What does the Hope have to do with this thread. UGA has the second highest SAT scores of any school in the SEC


Like I posted before. GA produces over 50K HS students each year with a B or better average in order to receive the Hope Scholarship. I'm guessing UGA accepts 8K ever year. So you can understand how acceptance rates and SAT scores can be affected. It has everything to do with the Hope Scholarship.

How many out of state students do they accept every year ?

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What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Fact: UGA has the 2nd highest SAT scores of any school in the SEC.

Play ping pong in your cranium all you want, but facts are facts.

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I would posit that a UGA grad now serving as a federal prosecutor for the DOJ (salary ~ 150k) is far more esteemed and successful than an mid-level engineer from Auburn (salary ~150k). The head of a prominent D.C. think tank is surely making less than a middle level engineer, but is certainly more contextually successful.

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What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Fact: UGA has the 2nd highest SAT scores of any school in the SEC.

Play ping pong in your cranium all you want, but facts are facts.

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It is just ignorant to say that the Hope Scholarship is not the major factor. What are the number of out of state students. We know the supply and demand for good students has caused Bama to go out of state to boost those numbers, but the Hope makes that a waste of time for UGA. The population of GA is over 10 million and a HS population of over 1.6M, so there are roughly 400K SRs every year. So UGA roughly accepts less than .02 of those instate students. My guess is over 90% are HS recipients, even after GT takes the cream of the crop. Would those .02 go to other schools if money was not the issue. How would that effect those numbers.

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I've had professors...at lesser universities, so what does that say?

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