So maybe some of the stars at night aren’t so big and bright, after all…
I mentioned yesterday that one of our newest conference members has a bit of an ego problem, but this is starting to sound like Tech 2.0. Yes, Texas is one of the top public universities, but currently ranks behind *checks notes* the University of Florida. UF also tops Texas with a 23% acceptance rate, as well.
Lost but not forgotten is also Vanderbilt, a respectable 18th among private universities and boasting an acceptance rate of 7%.
I get it, we’re talking academics, here, and not football. It’s still an off-season ranking conversation, though, so should make for a little conversation point in what is traditionally a slow day here at Refugees.
Oh, in case you were wondering which school is the easiest to get in to? Here ya go:
No wonder Lane has so much time to Tweet. I’d imagine the compliance department doesn’t have to worry about academics too much in Oxford.
“If you have informashun that an Ole Miss football player is elliterate, please text me at 1-OMD-ONT-CARE.
Go Rebles!”
The Laner.
My son, who applied to schools like UNC, NC State and Clemson, told me was going to also apply to Ole Miss. I asked him why. He said that he needed a backup with pretty much guaranteed acceptance.
Ole Miss, safety school.
Ole Miss might be the new Auburn in that department.
Mr. Laremy Tunsil does not approve of your message….
I’m a little surprised Ole Miss is that easy to get into. I had this image of old money and such and figured their acceptance rate was one of the lower ones. Shows what I know.
Ole Miss is Auburn applicants’ safety school.
A good friend of mine is from Texas but went to Old Miss. One of the guys at work asked him, “why didn’t you go to Texas?” He said, “I couldn’t get in”
Great place if you want to time travel back a century.
UGA is ranked at an impressive #20.
Ahead of some well-known colleges.
texas has an unusual admission rule that says (I think) if you’re in the top 10% of your HS class, you’re in. So there are a lot of Chads from Westminster, say, competing for the open slots. Texas is a good school, but if you could buy them for what they’re worth and sell them for what they think they’re worth, you’d be richer than anyone in Texas.
Yeah, lots of parents move their kids to easier districts late in HS so they can finish top 7% (or whatever it is now).
The only way to get into UGA as a non athletic freshman is take a bunch of AP classes. It’s ridiculous how UGA looks at transcripts now. The leadership has turned it into another UVA or UNC.
These acceptance rates at public universities is disgusting. A state university should be for the Everyman. These schools leadership are populated by a bunch of academic self-licking ice cream cones looking to part unsuspecting young people from their money while providing largely useless degrees and patting themselves on the backs at how special they are because “selective” is prioritized over usefulness.
UGA. was an interesting place when it had a lot more geographic and intellectual diversity. Now it’s kind of become the University of Girls from Atlanta, plus some highly prized smart kids from out of state. There were plenty of smart kids at UGA in the 70s, and also a lot of country kids with middling SAT scores and huge amounts of common sense. I learned a lot about people who were not like me, who were from backgrounds not like mine, and whose worldview was unlike mine. We all learned how to get along, and for the most part, how to disagree about some things without being completely disagreeable. Some changes have been for the better, but making UGA a geographic and intellectual echo chamber isn’t one of them.