Ranking the SEC Schools' Academics

College Search & Selection
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<p>Ole Miss sucks!!!</p>

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<p>Quality contribution Mr. Boyd.</p>

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<p>Please include ‘ATM’ to SEC (SECeding…) academic discussion! </p>

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<p>Go Aggies!! lol</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt is where its at. It is part of the “Southern Ivy League” and the “Other Eight” which includes Stanford, Duke, MIT, ect. But UF and UGA are both fine schools also.</p>

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<p>Much will depend on your academic interests and career goals. </p>

<p>Vandy is a great school, my nephew is currently attending, but as a pre-med student it can be brutal with so many students all vying for the limited number of A’s in the pre-req (aka weeder) classes. </p>

<p>I don’t think Vandy has a B-school, so those with those interests need to go elsewhere and some of the other SEC schools have fine B-schools.</p>

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<p>New ranking. Based on the addition of Texas A&M and Mizzou.</p>

<p>1.Vandy
2.Texas A&M
3.Florida
4.Georgia
5.Auburn
6.Alabama
7.Tennessee
8. Missouri
9.South Carolina
10.Arkansas
11.LSU
12.Kentucky
13.Ole Miss
14.Miss State</p>

<p>Personally, I feel that Texas A&M has some of the best academics in the new conference. Arkansas is growing in respect. I feel that Auburn is superior to their rival (BAMA) in academics (in sports Bama brings in more notoriety, but Auburn has students with better scores & thus they are more highly ranked)</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt is by far the best academic school here. Florida a strong second…any thoughts that Georgia has been gaining on Florida in the last five or ten years is just nonsense.</p>

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<p>US News ranks Bama higher than Auburn.</p>

<p>US News ranking</p>

<p>Alabama #75
Auburn… #82</p>

<p>I know that you’re using middle quartiles as your main reason for putting Auburn above Bama, but that doesn’t tell the whole story.</p>

<p>ACT Middle Quartiles
24 -30 Auburn
22 - 29 Bama</p>

<p>that difference is negligible. One reason for Bama’s slightly lower middle quartiles is because Bama is more committed to diversity by enrolling 12 African American students. As you can imagine AA students in the US have, on average, significantly lower test scores. Bama’s student body consists of 12% AA students, while Auburn’s student body consists of only 6%. That difference will affect the middle quartiles. </p>

<p>As for UGa gaining on UF. I don’t think that’s going to happen because of GT.</p>

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<p>Wilgochev. Let me guess. You’re an aggie. Guess again. UF is and has always been ranked higher than Aggie. They are usually tied or right around Texas and Aggie is always behind Texas. </p>

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<p>Actually, Vanderbilt is by far nothing. Vanderbilt is the most selective, certainly, as a private. However, Texas A&M is a much stronger research university with the largest endowment in the conference.</p>

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<p>that difference is negligible. One reason for Bama’s slightly lower middle quartiles is because Bama is more committed to diversity by enrolling 12 African American students</p>

<p>ha ha…just saw my mistake. I should have written: Bama is more committed to diversity by enrolling a student body that is 12% AA. I know I wrote it correctly later, but the above just sounds funny. </p>

<p>Also…</p>

<p>Auburn has a 70% acceptance rate, while Bama has a much lower acceptance rate of 44%.</p>

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<p>SEC Schools Academically ( my personal rankings)

  1. Vanderbilt ( No Doubt )
  2. U of Florida ( Florida and a&m are tied for me though)
  3. Texas A&M<br>
  4. U of Georgia
  5. University of Alabama ( Well on the rise, also a bit bias to my future school)
  6. U of South Carolina
  7. U of Missouri ( once again i think mizzou and auburn are tied.)
  8. Auburn U
  9. U of Tennessee
  10. U of Kentucky
  11. Louisiana State U
  12. U of Arkansas
  13. Ole Miss
  14. Mississippi State</p>
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<p>@ag54-If you want to play the rankings game, Texas A&M and UF are tied at 58 according to usnwr. (With Texas at 45)
Engineering: A&M-17 UF-27
Business: UF-28 A&M-36</p>

<p>Seems pretty even to me…although as an Aggie, I would give props to UF for having the stronger student body:
A&M: Top 10% of high school class-54%
Average SAT (-Writing): 1220
Average ACT: 27</p>

<p>UF: Top 10% of high school class-74%
Average SAT: 1945 (all parts)
Average ACT: 26/30 (25th-75th percentile)</p>

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<p>Just to provide a different prospective entirely, here are the rankings by average SAT score (old format) for the freshman classes that entered in 2011. I got the stats from the Common Data Sets on the schools’ websites. You begin to see that there are pretty clear tiers within the SEC:</p>

<p>Tier 1
Vanderbilt- 1465</p>

<p>Tier 2
Florida- 1260</p>

<p>Tier 3
Georgia- 1225
Texas A&M- 1210</p>

<p>Tier 4
South Carolina- 1195</p>

<p>Tier 5
Missouri- 1180
Tennessee- 1170</p>

<p>Tier 6
LSU- 1135
Arkansas- 1130
Alabama- 1130
Kentucky- 1120
Auburn- 1120</p>

<p>Tier 7
Mississippi State- 1103
Ole Miss- 1065</p>

<p>A couple observations- </p>

<p>If you were to base US News rankings solely on the quality of students being admitted, South Carolina would be hugely under ranked and Alabama and Auburn would be hugely over ranked. I think name recognition has carried Alabama and Auburn far above where they probably should be in the rankings, so good for them. </p>

<p>Missouri’s admissions standards seem slightly lower than would be expected given their academic reputation. This might be because they emphasize and report the ACT score primarily and do not focus much on the SAT score.</p>

<p>Otherwise everything lines up with most people’s rankings of the schools.</p>