Admission Rate (by %) of Land Grant Schools . . .

[sonofdaxjones]

So I am reading some discussion in Tuckville, and a usual suspect chimed in with his usual misinformation about how the mission of Land Grant Schools is to pretty much let everybody in like K-State does.

Frankly, if K-State only raised it's admission standards marginally over where they are now, it would increase the school's overall prestige and impact very few students.   In fact, if you look at the numbers, a very large percentage of K-State Freshman would garner automatic admission at all but the most selective public universities in the United States (and a significant portion of those would get admitted to the UNC Chapel Hill's and Virginia's of the world).   

It's a myth that Land Grant Schools are required to essentially just throw the doors open.   

Admission Rate of other Land Grant Schools:

NC State: 54%

University of Florida: 39%

Ohio State: 63.4%

Auburn: 70%

Virginia Tech: 67%

Texas A&M : 63.5%

Iowa State: 81%

Mississippi State: 63%

Colorado State: 76%

K-State: 97%

[star seed 7]

meh.

[sonofdaxjones]

meh.

19 on the ACT huh?

[steve dave]

So I am reading some discussion in Tuckville, and a usual suspect chimed in with his usual misinformation about how the mission of Land Grant Schools is to pretty much let everybody in like K-State does.

Frankly, if K-State only raised it's admission standards marginally over where they are now, it would increase the school's overall prestige and impact very few students.   In fact, if you look at the numbers, a very large percentage of K-State Freshman would garner automatic admission at all but the most selective public universities in the United States (and a significant portion of those would get admitted to the UNC Chapel Hill's and Virginia's of the world).   

It's a myth that Land Grant Schools are required to essentially just throw the doors open.   

Admission Rate of other Land Grant Schools:

NC State: 54%

University of Florida: 39%

Ohio State: 63.4%

Auburn: 70%

Virginia Tech: 67%

Texas A&M : 63.5%

Iowa State: 81%

Mississippi State: 63%

Colorado State: 76%

K-State: 97%

I know a non-tuck that would whip your ass in an argument about this.

[sonofdaxjones]

So I am reading some discussion in Tuckville, and a usual suspect chimed in with his usual misinformation about how the mission of Land Grant Schools is to pretty much let everybody in like K-State does.

Frankly, if K-State only raised it's admission standards marginally over where they are now, it would increase the school's overall prestige and impact very few students.   In fact, if you look at the numbers, a very large percentage of K-State Freshman would garner automatic admission at all but the most selective public universities in the United States (and a significant portion of those would get admitted to the UNC Chapel Hill's and Virginia's of the world).   

It's a myth that Land Grant Schools are required to essentially just throw the doors open.   

Admission Rate of other Land Grant Schools:

NC State: 54%

University of Florida: 39%

Ohio State: 63.4%

Auburn: 70%

Virginia Tech: 67%

Texas A&M : 63.5%

Iowa State: 81%

Mississippi State: 63%

Colorado State: 76%

K-State: 97%

I know a non-tuck that would whip your ass in an argument about this.

Who is arguing, it's just the way the college rankings game is played.

[steve dave]

Oh, I thought you were advocating for raising admission standards. Never mind.

[sonofdaxjones]

Oh, I thought you were advocating for raising admission standards. Never mind.

So advocating is arguing?

[Skipper44]

would still  like to hear the ass whipping  defense for not raising admissions ( because I think it benefits the U to  be  very inclusive)

[steve dave]

Oh, I thought you were advocating for raising admission standards. Never mind.

So advocating is arguing?

good lord Dax

[star seed 7]

meh.

19 on the ACT huh?

no.  well maybe the reading part 

[star seed 7]

would still  like to hear the ass whipping  defense for not raising admissions ( because I think it benefits the U to  be  very inclusive)

yeah, i like that too, but i also don't care if we were slightly less inclusive.  hence the "meh".

[sonofdaxjones]

Bring it on, but in the college rankings game, K-State gets dinged for its admission rates, and when you look at incoming Freshman ACT scores at K-State it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that a marginal increase in standards would impact very few students, plus with the transfer agreements in place with Kansas Juco's, the path into K-State would still be relatively simple for resident Kansas students not admitted as Freshman.

[star seed 7]

i would love to see ACT stats for cats bbs'.

how many points do you guys think we got on gopo?

[DQ12]

i like that our doors are wide open.  i care zero percent about k-state's academic ranking, but i can understand why others might.

but if you're the type to care about k-state's college ranking, why did you decide to go to k-state in the first place?

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Yea, there is literally nothing I give a crap less about than acceptance rates.

[HerrSonntag]

College admission rates and the rate of tuition inflation are directly related.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

College admission rates and the rate of tuition inflation are directly related.

Nah.

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Degrees matter, not schools.

[chum1]

I love it when people talk about the days of worrying about test scores and getting accepted into college, including me in the discussion and I'm just all like, "Yeah, man."

[GoodForAnother]

i like that our doors are wide open.  i care zero percent about k-state's academic ranking, but i can understand why others might.

but if you're the type to care about k-state's college ranking, why did you decide to go to k-state in the first place?

someone has a great fatty quote that sums up the whole academics thing really well

[sonofdaxjones]

Who is worrying?

But it's a complete myth that Land Grant Schools are mandated to just throw the doors open.

Also, it's quite obvious that the senior administration at K-State cares about college rankings.

[bubbles4ksu]

how dare chum1 accuse dax of worrying.

[Belvis Noland]

i like that our doors are wide open.  i care zero percent about k-state's academic ranking, but i can understand why others might.

It's good that you can understand why people may care about the academic ranking of our academic institution. 

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

if we let more kids into ksu we will have more millionaire alumni. its rough ridin' science.

[DQ12]

i like that our doors are wide open.  i care zero percent about k-state's academic ranking, but i can understand why others might.

It's good that you can understand why people may care about the academic ranking of our academic institution.

Yeah.  I'm empathetic like that.