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<blockquote data-quote="vamosjackets" data-source="post: 8105" data-attributes="member: 216"><p>How about this stat: What school's football team had the highest SAT score of all public universities? (Also, check which one is the lowest!)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/12/30/athletes-show-huge-gaps-in-sat-scores" target="_blank">http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/12/30/athletes-show-huge-gaps-in-sat-scores</a></p><p></p><p>That alone ought to get you into any conversation involving academic athletic institutions. But, what it also says is that our "exceptions" are going to be better qualified than 99% of the "regular" admits at 99% of the other schools. An "exception" at a school with the highest admission standards like GT is not like an "exception" at factory U. It reminds me of how some would want to compare a GPA at a school like Ugag with a GPA at GT. It's like saying let's compare the best Saturn with the worst Ferrari. Some grad school programs actually do this, they just take someone's GPA as a metric without looking at the school or major that the person was in. So majoring in leisure at Smallville Community College and getting a 3.5 is equal to majoring in Aerospace at GT with a 3.5. Any program that would do that is one I would want no part of anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vamosjackets, post: 8105, member: 216"] How about this stat: What school's football team had the highest SAT score of all public universities? (Also, check which one is the lowest!) [url]http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/12/30/athletes-show-huge-gaps-in-sat-scores[/url] That alone ought to get you into any conversation involving academic athletic institutions. But, what it also says is that our "exceptions" are going to be better qualified than 99% of the "regular" admits at 99% of the other schools. An "exception" at a school with the highest admission standards like GT is not like an "exception" at factory U. It reminds me of how some would want to compare a GPA at a school like Ugag with a GPA at GT. It's like saying let's compare the best Saturn with the worst Ferrari. Some grad school programs actually do this, they just take someone's GPA as a metric without looking at the school or major that the person was in. So majoring in leisure at Smallville Community College and getting a 3.5 is equal to majoring in Aerospace at GT with a 3.5. Any program that would do that is one I would want no part of anyway. [/QUOTE]
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