Alabama Recruitment

[littleowl33]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I'm not interested in a big discussion of regional differences either, but come on, if you look at the percentiles on admissions tests, the data points are way, way out there for the super competitive schools. Think about where the plotting the average score on bell curve. There's no way to objectively argue that Ivy Admissions are normal.

If more than 90% of the girls who don't drop out of rush get bids at Bama, it's just not comparable.

But the reason the Ivies are the Ivies is because they don't take normal students... they take the top students from all across the country. I don't find anything wrong with that - that's the way they work, and that's why they have big name recognition. A high percentage of the girls at Bama won't get into the chapters that get big name recognition, and that's why those groups DO get big name recognition and why membership becomes a status symbol. I would say that scenario is pretty comparable.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by littleowl33

But the reason the Ivies are the Ivies is because they don't take normal students... they take the top students from all across the country. I don't find anything wrong with that - that's the way they work, and that's why they have big name recognition. A high percentage of the girls at Bama won't get into the groups that get big name recognition, and that's why those groups DO get big name recognition and why membership becomes a status symbol.

I don't find anything* wrong with Ivy-level selectivity either, and in that regard, "freak show" was poor word choice. It's hard to make the case that you didn't mean it pejoratively.

It might be worth noting that you've changed your comparison from SEC recruitment generally being "freaky" to being selected for certain elite groups.

*I have problems with a lack of objectivity to how they seem to evaluate merit in some instances. But not with extreme selectivity in itself.