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Univ of Texas tweeting out GPA's?!?!

OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
It was a good win, but bowl game results, to me anyway, have become more difficult to judge since the playoff system was instituted, and since players started opting out for the draft. I’m not sure what the ratio was in this particular game.
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100% agree

See UF continuously *********ing over that amazing victory against Michigan.
 
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atlCanesFan said:
Pretty sure Texas is playing La Tech (week 1) & LSU week 2.
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Thought I saw they were opening with Maryland

****, wish I could remember where I saw that, they’re not even playing Maryland it doesn’t look like - maybe I was reading something from last year.

If I did my job this badly and sloppily, I wouldn’t have a job. Just sloppy and lazy on my part.
 
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OriginalGatorHater said:
There are over 5,000 schools in the country. You don't need to be a top 10 school to be considered a "top university". Obviously Texas is not even close to being on Princetons level, but it is still a "top school".
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Thank you for enlightening this person. UM was ranked #53 last year, so does that automatically disqualify UM from being a top academia? Of course not. Some of the people on this board would rather be the first to tell you you're wrong about something than to be rationale and actually make sense. Smh
 
Disgustipated said:
Herman gets lots of love from the many on this board. He is the messiah
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Yeah but tell that mf to spell GPA though.
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OriginalGatorHater said:
This is literally just a 20 year old list a couple of guys came up with. A lot has changed in those twenty years regarding rankings.
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What are you disagreeing with exactly? Are you saying that elite public colleges from 20 yrs ago no longer are elite? Or are you saying that elite public colleges cannot compete with schools from the Ivy league?

1.) I agree there has been some movement on the public ivy list compared to 20 yrs ago, but by and large public colleges that were elite back then are also elite today. - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

2.) As for elite public colleges not being able to compete with the Ivy league-I emphatically disagree with that. When you take into account academic quality, value, and overall college experience-the elite public colleges of today absolutely can compete with many of the schools from the Ivy league. I realize that someone who works in Finance or on Wall St. is going to have a hard time accepting that, due to how biased Wall St is towards the Ivy league, but I think that has more to do with old money, influential alumni networks, and plain indoctrination about what qualifies as a quality education than anything else. One of the reasons why I think it's absurd to suggest accomplished grads from public schools like Ga. Tech, Berkeley, UCLA, or UT-Austin can't compete/perform with some of the silver spoon fed Ivy league grads on Wall St. is because I actually know individuals who graduated from those schools, and then went on to work on Wall St, private equity, and management consulting during their careers.
 
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craval85 said:
What are you disagreeing with exactly? Are you saying that elite public colleges from 20 yrs ago no longer are elite? Or are you saying that elite public colleges cannot compete with schools from the Ivy league?

1.) I agree there has been some movement on the public ivy list compared to 20 yrs ago, but by and large public colleges that were elite back then are also elite today. - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

2.) As for elite public colleges not being able to compete with the Ivy league-I emphatically disagree with that. When you take into account academic quality, value, and overall college experience-the elite public colleges of today absolutely can compete with many of the schools from the Ivy league. I realize that someone who works in Finance or on Wall St. is going to have a hard time accepting that, due to how biased Wall St is towards the Ivy league, but I think that has more to do with old money, influential alumni networks, and plain indoctrination about what qualifies as a quality education than anything else. One of the reasons why I think it's absurd to suggest accomplished grads from public schools like Ga. Tech, Berkeley, UCLA, or UT-Austin can't compete/perform with some of the silver spoon fed Ivy league grads on Wall St. is because I actually know individuals who graduated from those schools, and then went on to work on Wall St, private equity, and management consulting during their careers.
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Your argument may have some merit, but I find this particular proof source lacking because their methodology for ranking colleges includes a very low (around 10%) percentage for academic based criteria (test scores, exclusivity, etc). Most of their ranking algorithm is based on non-academic criteria.

Although their actual ranking results are not outrageous, with a few notable examples, any person familiar with the academic landscape in the United States would be able to come up with a similar ranked list of public universities, without the phony (imo) algorithm.

When your formula has UF and UGA ranked above Purdue, you have an issue.

Nobody looks at a resume and is more impressed with a UGA or UF education than they are with Purdue. Quite the opposite. Purdue carries a lot more weight. This is just one example. Although their list overall is not horrible. But that’s what happens when you don’t use academic criteria as one of your major factors.
 
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