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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 2897" data-source="post: 288986"><p>Our primary brand at Georgia Tech is our elite academics (1450 SAT in the current Freshman class and an average of 11 AP class taken in high school) and highly Engineering/STEM oriented. I never want to change that no matter what. I want to be the underdog. I don't want anything to be easy. If something is easy, then what's the point? Where's the reward? That's the experience of Georgia Tech, what we learn, what becomes a part of our soul and why so many of us succeed wildly in life after graduation. Look at the top 15-20 classes every year - they are nearly all poor academic schools - 10-12 SEC schools and then a few good schools sprinkled in like Clemson and Stanford. But make no mistake, Clemson and Stanford do not have the *tight* academic rigor we have with such limited majors. And we don't get the resources they do. So there are a lot of legitimate points in the article. But one, which may seem like semantics - we struggle to get highly rated classes, but we don't struggle in recruiting itself. How many of our official visitors in January ended up committing? Of the ones we know of, wasn't it like 90%? We don't have time to chase people with poor academics, so we don't chase many of the highly rated athletes - and lets be honest, there are smart and not smart guys all up and down the board. But the higher you climb the ladder, the higher the chance of poor academics. People aren't born 5 stars, these are guys that spend so much time getting bigger, faster, stronger that school frequently suffers. We don't struggle to get them, because they don't want to be here and we don't want them here. So one way to change the question is, what do we need to do to get more of those guys? But I don't want them. I don't want us in the top 15-20 because that means we're changing who we are. I want to land as many of the few smart, talented, academically gifted elite athletes we can, but that's a much smaller pool. I think our ceiling in this philosophy is probably in the low 20s so don't get me wrong, we could do a heck of a lot better. But I don't lose too much time thinking about it. Besides, as we know from our next door neighbor, having a monopoly on all the elite talent in the nation has not done much other than making them a laughing stock of the country. georgia finishes in the top 10 in the Fulmer Cup every year, but not in football.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 2897, post: 288986"] Our primary brand at Georgia Tech is our elite academics (1450 SAT in the current Freshman class and an average of 11 AP class taken in high school) and highly Engineering/STEM oriented. I never want to change that no matter what. I want to be the underdog. I don't want anything to be easy. If something is easy, then what's the point? Where's the reward? That's the experience of Georgia Tech, what we learn, what becomes a part of our soul and why so many of us succeed wildly in life after graduation. Look at the top 15-20 classes every year - they are nearly all poor academic schools - 10-12 SEC schools and then a few good schools sprinkled in like Clemson and Stanford. But make no mistake, Clemson and Stanford do not have the *tight* academic rigor we have with such limited majors. And we don't get the resources they do. So there are a lot of legitimate points in the article. But one, which may seem like semantics - we struggle to get highly rated classes, but we don't struggle in recruiting itself. How many of our official visitors in January ended up committing? Of the ones we know of, wasn't it like 90%? We don't have time to chase people with poor academics, so we don't chase many of the highly rated athletes - and lets be honest, there are smart and not smart guys all up and down the board. But the higher you climb the ladder, the higher the chance of poor academics. People aren't born 5 stars, these are guys that spend so much time getting bigger, faster, stronger that school frequently suffers. We don't struggle to get them, because they don't want to be here and we don't want them here. So one way to change the question is, what do we need to do to get more of those guys? But I don't want them. I don't want us in the top 15-20 because that means we're changing who we are. I want to land as many of the few smart, talented, academically gifted elite athletes we can, but that's a much smaller pool. I think our ceiling in this philosophy is probably in the low 20s so don't get me wrong, we could do a heck of a lot better. But I don't lose too much time thinking about it. Besides, as we know from our next door neighbor, having a monopoly on all the elite talent in the nation has not done much other than making them a laughing stock of the country. georgia finishes in the top 10 in the Fulmer Cup every year, but not in football. [/QUOTE]
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