Worst College In America: University of Bridgeport

[pw_1016]

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Really? I thought it was a decent business school just because of contributions from the Walton family.

Yeah. Their Business school is ranked 95th best for undergrad business schools.

[BrianFifaFan]

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Worst Big Ten School: Michigan State



LOVE IT!

Preach!

[ruserl88]

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the electoral college would get my vote

[auburntigersfan]

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Yeah, that's not even close to true.

Texas and UGA are very difficult to get into relative to other public schools in the south, but that has a lot more to do with the sorry state of education in the south than how great Texas and UGA are.

Your last two sentences are completely laughable. Those schools are so much better than Texas that on their 25/75 splits on SAT scores, their 25th percentile scores are almost as high as UT's 75th percentile. UT's average SAT score is roughly 1220. The average score at Cornell was 1420. Obviously the out of state admissions for Texas are going to be above their average, but it shouldn't be anywhere near that much.

Texas may be selective relative to the people who apply, but the people who apply to Texas aren't the cream of the intellectual crop.

My last two sentences are actually completely true. From Oklahoma it is ridiculously hard to get into Texas. Texas out of state admissions is ridiculous ever since they enacted a bill that forced Texas to admit the top 10% of every high school class in the state of Texas. Allowing the top 10% from every podunk high school in the state of Texas does stuff to the SAT average. Showing the 25-75 splits of SAT scores does nothing to prove your point considering my point is that many dumb in state applicants are accepted rather than more qualified out of state applicants, if anything it proves my point.

From where I live getting accepted to Texas is a pretty big deal, and it isn't because people don't get accepted into great colleges, because they do, it's because it's so tough to get in nowadays. I never said it was as good academically as the aforementioned institutions.

[mattlanta]

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I know a couple people who go to Bridgeport... lol.

[Cebby]

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My last two sentences are actually completely true. From Oklahoma it is ridiculously hard to get into Texas. Texas out of state admissions is ridiculous ever since they enacted a bill that forced Texas to admit the top 10% of every high school class in the state of Texas. Allowing the top 10% from every podunk high school in the state of Texas does stuff to the SAT average. Showing the 25-75 splits of SAT scores does nothing to prove your point considering my point is that many dumb in state applicants are accepted rather than more qualified out of state applicants, if anything it proves my point.

That's actually not true for your class.

The top 10% isn't guaranteed admission, but 75% of the students admitted to Texas are required to be in the top 10%. They admit all 1% then all 2%, etc until they fill that quota.

http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/outofstate/index.htm

From the university itself:

SAT/ACT Ranges & Averages: Enrolled Out-of-State Applicants Mid-50% SAT Range: 1220 – 1430 (combined verbal and math)
Average SAT Score: 1313 (combined verbal and math)

As I said, their out of state numbers are somewhat higher but certainly far from the elite schools.

Cornell's average SAT score for any admitted student is 1420, Michigan's median score is roughly 1330 (though you would then add a 30-50 point bump for out of state), and Emory's 25/75 split is 1320/1460.

If you can get into any of those then you'd be easily into Texas. Even the lowest estimates from the other schools would put you well into the 50-60 percentile of admitted Texas students and the median estimates would put you in their 70%. Now there's a chance that Texas has a bunch of highly qualified people who apply and they just don't let in for whatever reason, but I somewhat doubt that.

The only reason Texas has such low acceptance rates for out of state students is because so many non-smart (I don't want to say stupid, but they're certainly far from elite intelligence) people apply to go to school there.

I just dealt with the same thing for graduate school. One school I was admitted to was obsessed with telling us how "elite" we were because they only admitted 8 or 9% of their applicants in what seemed like an attempt to convince themselves more than to convince me. Another school mentioned that they accepted about 10-15% of their applicants and didn't mention anything.

Despite the lower acceptance rate, school 2 was much, much more difficult to get into than school 1. The kids at school 1 were deciding between school 1, American, GW, Maryland, etc while the kids at school 2 were deciding between school 2, Harvard, Cal, Duke, and Princeton. With lower standards school 1 had a feeling of accessibility which led to more applicants. This is what is happening with Texas. Statistically it appears more difficult to get into, but in actuality it just has a much larger but much worse applicant pool.