smu academic requirements are a joke

[that's great raplh]

it is still very easy to get into smu - no matter how you slice it

michigan is a very hard school to get into

so is florida

so is texas

but they get some players from jucos who always make a diff

two words for all you doubters - adrian haywood

[that's great raplh]

what smu needs to do is spin it differently

if they lose credits, they will just need to make them up and we'll pay for it

in the end - they will be holding a very valuable piece of paper - an SMU Degree

i went to smu - i went to Cox and now i work on wall street and i make more than most pro atheletes

[SWC2010]

Hey instead of fretting about all this, why don't we mine the fields of post grads from elite military schools? Fork Union Academy has two Heisman winners. That's more than most high schools in the Country. They clearly recruit and give scholarships to kids who need some discipline and one-on-one academic help. Ohio State seems to have a pipeline to these schools. We got one last year, we need to keep that pipeline open.

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Good idea, on pursuiing the Preps.

Of course, we may have blown that Fork Union 'pipeline'.

Didn't we run that kid off last semester?

[PhirePhilBennett]

it is still very easy to get into smu - no matter how you slice it

michigan is a very hard school to get into

UNLESS YOU ARE AN ATHLETE

so is florida

WRONG MY FRIEND, FLA IS NOT HARD

so is texas

TX HAS THAT TOP10% ACTION - ALLOWS MANY PEOPLE THAT WOULDn"T OTHERWISE BE QUALIFIED, and EXCLUDES MANY HIGHLY RANKED HS GRADUATES THAT ATTEND TOP-TIERED HS LIKE PRIVATES

but they get some players from jucos who always make a diff

two words for all you doubters - adrian haywood

[friarwolf]

smu is not the piece of cake to get into that it once was. record early applications this year, lots of kids with 1200 sat's flat getting rejected or deferred.

[EastStang]

Sure SMU is easier to get into than Duke, Rice, Stanford, Northwestern and certainly easier than Michigan or UVA. I suspect that any SMU admittee would be accepted at virtually any state school in their home state (with some notable exceptions like, William and Mary, UVA, Michigan, Cal-Berkeley). There was a book out several years ago called public Ivy's. It listed about 25 public schools with Ivy League reputations (With schools like those mentioned above). I would put all of them ahead of SMU in difficulty of admission. Statistics are whatever you want them to be.

[PhirePhilBennett]

Sure SMU is easier to get into than Duke, Rice, Stanford, Northwestern and certainly easier than Michigan or UVA. I suspect that any SMU admittee would be accepted at virtually any state school in their home state (with some notable exceptions like, William and Mary, UVA, Michigan, Cal-Berkeley). There was a book out several years ago called public Ivy's. It listed about 25 public schools with Ivy League reputations (With schools like those mentioned above). I would put all of them ahead of SMU in difficulty of admission. Statistics are whatever you want them to be.

Agreed. And most of those public schools have nice 'easy' degree tracks as well for their athletes and (lower qualified) legacies as well.

[SMU Football Blog]

smu is not the piece of cake to get into that it once was. record early applications this year, lots of kids with 1200 sat's flat getting rejected or deferred.

Sorry, but I doubt that.

[couch 'em]

I doubt the situation has changed much from when I got to SMU. (2001) The question was not if you could get into SMU, but how much scholarship they gave you. SMU is very easy to get into. Not easy like UT Arlington or Sol Ross or Prarie View or other "schools" like that...... but when we are talking about UT, A&M, etc, if you are not in the top 10% of your HS class then SMU is far easier to get into.

[friarwolf]

Blogger. It is true. SMU has become the "flavor of the month" this year. Dallas kids have decided SMU is cool with the Mockingbird Station area as well as all the capital improvements SMU has made. I know of 3 kids with sat's of 1200 that flat got rejection letters 2 weeks ago. Early applications are up over 40%.

[that's great raplh]

that helps all of us - we need to be more selective for regular students

[tmustangp]

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If you went to SMU, did you bother applying to Harvard? Not likely. But you probably applied to Tx or aTm as well as SMU. Same ballpark.quote]

you have to be kidding me.. you think smu is in the same ball park at UT and A&M as far as entrance requirements...

I got into smu 5 years ago and I didn't even bother to apply to UT or A&M, I was smart enough to know I didn't stand a chance.. you basically have to be top 10% to get into those schools or do the summer school program that is really hard

[gostangs]

True about UT - but not A&M - A&M is no harder to get into then SMU. he percentage of their classes made up of the 10%'ers is much smaller then UT's and therfore not as much of a factor.

[Ponymon]

I know of several parents that have pulled their kids out of St Marks and Greenhill and enrolled them in small public schools outside of the Metroplex so that they will qualify under the 10% rule. The 10% rule was put in to allow entrance for more minorities from the inner city. This rule has probably hurt UT more than helped as far as attracting top students with high SAT scores.

[tmustangp]

True about UT - but not A&M - A&M is no harder to get into then SMU. he percentage of their classes made up of the 10%'ers is much smaller then UT's and therfore not as much of a factor.

i just talked to my friends who graduated from A&M and have siblings at the school right now.. they say A&M is just as hard to get into as ut