Did Anyone Check Out the Schools' Academic Reputations? - Some Surprises

[acw]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bill_Abner

You can say that about every bigtime football school then, right? Singling out OSU for that is a tad unfair. Bigtime recruits, most of them, go to bigtime schools because they are bigtime schools. And in fact, both Craig Krenzel and Ben Hartsock went to OSU because it's the number one medical school in the country. So there.

Actually, Harvard is. OSU is not even in the top 30.

[bowdenball3]

where do i find the academic reputations for the schools at?

[msstherock]

I was shocked when I saw that USF (Univ. of South Florida) only had a 3-star academic reputation. USF has one of the top English departments in the country, one of the top 50 medical schools in the country and the undisputed #1 accounting department in all of the country. 92% of USF accounting grads pass the CPA exam on their first attempt. That is higher than any other university in the country. In addition to that, USF is the largest government funded institution in America for ballistic missile research. Yet, the developers gave USF a 3-star academic reputation. I'm not saying USF should be a 5 or 6 star institution, but, at least 4 stars!


Rock

[whitestripe]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoSparty

OSU loses kids due to admissions? That really surprises me. Not because I think it's a bad school, but because I thought short of Notre Dame, Stanford, etc., pretty much every school had the same bare-minimum entrance standards. Maybe not, which would be pretty encouraging. At MSU, I am pretty sure we'll take anyone who can sign their name. I thought OSU passed on Ringer more because of his injury. And you can have that GD Williams back. A few days on campus, and he jumps someone. Jackass.

Dennis Kennedy and DeJuan Morgan from Florida are two more examples of kids that cleared the NCAA clearinghouse but didn't make it through Ohio State admissions. Freddie Lennix from Glenville is greyshirting for the same exact reason this year.

[GetBuff]

OSU is a 4 star academic in the season i just started to check

[Sublime12089]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChicagoSparty

Look at the schools in front of them, though. It's a pretty stellar list, although Penn State and Florida tied at 50 surprises me a bit.

Florida is very difficult to get into much harder than FSU or USF or UCF

You know what UF students and UF students have in common?

they both got accepted into FSU!

[msstherock]

Quote: Originally Posted by BIGFOOT999

Florida is very difficult to get into much harder than FSU or USF or UCF You know what UF students and UF students have in common? they both got accepted into FSU!

He's right. UF is not easy to get into. UF is probably the best undergrad school in the state.

Rock

[ChicagoSparty]

Quote: Originally Posted by BIGFOOT999

Florida is very difficult to get into much harder than FSU or USF or UCF

Okay. I'm not comparing it to any of those schools.

At any rate, as someone noted, OSU is a 4-star institution on the game, so much of this discussion is moot.