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  • ACT/SAT

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 4:56pm EDT

    Business Week just ranked the 100 "smartest" public colleges in the US. The rankings are based on the average ACT and SAT scores of the student body. Did your school make the list? Mine did. Air Force Academy...not surprised that we outranked Westpoint and Annapolis. Are there any shockers? Yes, who knew The Ohio State University was so smart...ranked 11th. Which school has the best smarts/running program combo? I'll leave that one up to you...

    Here's the the top 10. Check the link below for more.

    1 Georgia Institute of Technology 1385

    2 University of California-Berkeley 1375

    3 College of William and Mary 1365

    4 United States Air Force Academy 1360

    5 University of Virginia 1355

    6 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1340

    6 Colorado School of Mines 1340

    8 University of California-Los Angeles 1320

    9 University of Maryland-College Park 1310

    10 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 1305

    Read more:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/smartest-public-colleges-in-america-2014-10#ixzz3HTks8TgX

    http://www.businessinsider.com/smartest-public-colleges-in-america-2014-10

  • Pass the Crab legs

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 6:48pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    Didn't UNC drop out of the top 30 after last week's report that 3,000 students took fake courses ???

  • mantis preying

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 6:54pm EDT
    re: Pass the Crab legs

    YOU NEED TO GET SUNY BUFFALO ON THAT LIST ASAP KID.

  • Ivyguy

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:31pm EDT
    re: mantis preying

    "[A]n average of the 25th and 75th percentile was computed[.]"

    I trust that those who attended "smart" schools will see the limitation there.

  • dsgfasfdg

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:53pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

  • using only SAT is flawed

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:54pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

  • dsgfasfdgghfgjfj

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:54pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

  • sadgrheth

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:54pm EDT
    re: dsgfasfdgghfgjfj

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

  • sdfhetyikyu,lyi.

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 8:55pm EDT
    re: sadgrheth

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

  • Pandaheadsfreakmeout

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 9:03pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    Terps!!!! Based on the idiots I hear about in College Park I find this ranking suspicious.

  • registered

    kibitzer

    Member since 05/04/2012.

    2,957 posts. Last post 3 months ago.
    9 years ago 10/28/2014 9:05pm EDT
    re: sdfhetyikyu,lyi.

    sdfhetyikyu,lyi. wrote:

    Students in the midwest don't take the SAT.

    Or you could take some time out from being a numbnuts, actually take a look at the link, and see how ACT was included.

    Sheesh.

  • Juco rules!

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/28/2014 9:17pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    UCLA and Berkeley use the University of California's software based admissions systems.

    It does not rely hardly much on rote test scores from culturally biased SAT and ACT, nor on environmentally biased high school GPA scores.

    It does however take as-is 'middle college' grades from 15-18 year old high school students enrolled at any of the 112 California Community Colleges.

  • registered

    xenonscreams

    Member since 10/21/2012.

    2,763 posts. Last post 7 years ago.
    9 years ago 10/28/2014 9:24pm EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    My school is on there but I'm not surprised. I had terrible high school grades and very good SATs, so I figured my school weighed the SAT more than a lot of other schools.

    Not sure that necessarily makes my school "smarter" than schools with lower average SAT score. I know intelligence and SAT scores are positively correlated, but that's not sufficient to accurately extract IQ from SATs.

  • I I I

    Anonymous Poster

    9 years ago 10/29/2014 12:58am EDT
    re: ACT/SAT

    SAT/ACT don't matter at top schools.

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