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Re: Admittance to SMU is harder than ever

Postby tristatecoog » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:08 pm

3.40 GPA for freshmen admits. I'd like to see the % from Top 10%, Top 25%, etc.
Interesting that there are 329 transfers, of which 59% were from two year colleges. I recently talked with a guy making $300K per year in a corporate finance job and he's sending his kids to community college first. The first kid is now at SMU Law after going to UT-Austin (post-CCCC). I would've thought that the juco kids would be turned off by the high price tag at SMU but maybe they know better. I want to see more locals mentioning SMU vs. all the UT/A&M hype. Then again, SMU is one of the top four schools out of Highland Park HS, which by the way, has an average SAT of 1190, well below the 1276 at SMU. Great job by the Ponies!
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Re: Admittance to SMU is harder than ever

Postby NavyCrimson » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:39 pm

If my boy wasn't on 'partial' baseball scholarship I would do that too. More times than not the first two yrs are junk courses anyway.
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Re: Admittance to SMU is harder than ever

Postby Pony^ » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:00 am

tristatecoog wrote:I'd like to see the % from Top 10%, Top 25%, etc.


For 2012 first-time, first-year students:

Top 10%: 47%

Top 25%: 76%

Top 50%: 96%

Botton half: 4%

Bottom quarter: 0%

But, only 38% of first time, first-year students submitted class rank information.

Many private schools do not rank students.

Average gpa for all first-time, first-year students was 3.60

http://smu.edu/ir/CDS/CDS_2012-2013_Part_C.pdf

Not sure what accounts for the discrepancy between the CDS and the Provost's Report with respect to average gpa. Perhaps one is a weighted gpa and the other is not weighted. According to the 2011 CDS, the average gpa was 3.64.

http://smu.edu/ir/CDS/CDS_2011-2012_Part_C.pdf
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