Top NCAA Conferences in academics

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<p>Ok, i thought it’d be fun to rank the top 5 NCAA (DI, DII, or DIII conferences) based on academics…</p>

<p>Mine are as follows</p>

<li><p>Ivy (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale)</p></li>
<li><p>UAA (Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Emory, NYU, UChicago, Rochester, WashU)</p></li>
<li><p>NESCAC (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams)</p></li>
<li><p>Patriot (American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Navy)</p></li>
<li><p>ACC (Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, UNC, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest)</p></li>
<li><p>Pac10 (Arizona, Arizona State, Cal-Berkeley, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State)</p></li>
</ol>

<p><strong>You can either create your own list, add on to this one, do both, rank just DI schools (anything)</strong></p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Ivy (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale)</p></li>
<li><p>UAA (Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Emory, NYU, UChicago, Rochester, WashU)</p></li>
<li><p>Pac10 (Arizona, Arizona State, Cal-Berkeley, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State)</p></li>
<li><p>NESCAC (Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams)</p></li>
<li><p>ACC (Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, UNC, NC State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest)</p></li>
<li><p>Patriot (American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Navy)</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>I'd say Big10 comes before Pac10 in terms of depth.</p>

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<p>I believe only the Patriot and Ivy Leagues have the academic index (AI) whereby athletes are required to be "academically representative" of the school. AI is a tool to determine whether schools are admitting students that are similar academically to the rest of the incoming class.</p>

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I'd say Big10 comes before Pac10 in terms of depth.

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<p>You kidding?</p>

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<p>No, I would definitely agree that the Big 10 tops the pac 10 for academics. After Cal-Stan-UCLA-USC, there is a huge drop off in academics in their conference. The lowest ranked school in their conference is Arizona State at 129, the lowest ranked tier 1 school in the country. The Big 10 is much more balanced, as the lowest ranked school in the conference is Indiana at 75.</p>

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<p>It would probably make sense to build a rank order list of schools sorting by SAT or something like that.</p>

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<p>Maybe, except that there are many schools that favor the gpa over the SAT score.</p>

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<p>And the Midwest uses the ACT a lot rather than the SAT.</p>