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Originally Posted by LAblondeGPhi
Ok, now perhaps I'm being just a little naive here, but is it common at some of these well-established, large schools to have incoming freshman with UNDER a 2.5? At my school, incoming freshman averaged above a 4.0 and I don't recall ever seeing listed GPAs under 3.8 during recruitment. Admittedly, our school had high admission standards, but I don't recall my high school colleauges going to 4-year universities with UNDER a 2.5. In those cases, Community College was often a better option (plus you could save money).
Doesn't it seem weird to come into a college practically on academic probation already?
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I had the exact same thought so I looked it up:
http://www.olemiss.edu/admissions/fap.html#regad
At Ole Miss, if you get a certain score on the ACT/SAT, it doesn't matter what you got as your high school GPA. If you score high enough, you can get in with a 2.0. Although it does look like you have to least have a 2.0. But... that's not very good.
Frankly, this makes a lot of sense to me given that I know that a lot of students who can't get into Texas end up at Ole Miss. (The top 10% rule at Texas state universities now accounts for around 80% of admissions to UT. So lots of kids from prestigious high schools now find it difficult to gain entrance to UT.) The score guarantees you'd get in.
It also looks like you get in automatically with a 3.2 regardless of what your high school GPA is... that's sort of surprising to me too.