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Originally Posted by Hartofsec
Around here - and by extrapolation, surely just about everywhere else - often more than 10% of the seniors in large suburban high schools have a 4.0 (often above a 4.0 if AP courses are given extra weight in the GPA). And in excess of 10% also have high college entrance scores. Example:
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/05/...ccept_166.html
If our state universities used a top 10% criteria, for example, many very academically strong students from these large high schools would not be admitted.
I don't know a thing about admission to Texas public universities, but having a program to buffer this reality seems like a good idea. Isn't it possible that some of the students in whatever bridge program exists have overall better academic credentials than some who were admitted to the university in question? |
This is my thinking about the bridge programs. I will say that while advising some undergraduate students, I was shocked at how many came to college with tons of AP courses. Students actually come to college, where I am currently living, with almost a full year's worth of courses from AP. They are also involved in so much. Some of them seem to be on the brink of curing world hunger (exaggeration) and make me feel like I must have been a real slacker in high school. It sure has gotten competitive, in general, for these new undergraduate and graduate students. I don't envy them one bit. Instead, I applaud them.