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Originally Posted by Low D Flat
They are definitely not getting into Michigan/Illinois/Ohio State/Wisconsin with below 3.0 GPAs, and Alabama is a lot more appealing than the third-tier schools they could get into in their home states.
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I am not sure where you're located, but your estimation of the Big 10 academic tiers are a little off. I have worked in secondary education for 20 years in Big 10 country and two of the schools you've cited do admit students below a 3.0 and do it quite often. You left Purdue off the list which is harder to get into the Illinois and Ohio State. In fact, OSU has the third lowest admissions standards in the Big Ten. I know of quite a few kids who were wait listed at Purdue and Indiana and got into Illinois. Michigan and Ohio State may compete athletically, but academically it's not even close.
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