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Football, shmootball: Ohio State gets serious in the classroom

Cinfali

Senior
This made me very proud, really great news:

http://bridgemi.com/2014/08/football-shmootball-ohio-state-gets-serious-in-the-classroom/
No Big Ten school has seen the test scores of incoming freshmen climb as fast as Ohio State since 2001. And among public schools in the Big Ten (Northwestern, which is private, has long led on test scores), Ohio State is now second only to Michigan.

How big a change has Ohio State made? No other Big Ten school saw a four-point jump at either the 25th or 75th percentile.

And while 23 is better than 69 percent of all ACT test takers; a 27 is better than 87 percent of ACT test takers nationally. At the top end, the goalpost moved from 91 percent (28) to 97 percent (31).

By raising expectations for incoming students, OSU has succeeded in catching the attention of top students in Ohio and across the country.

“The increase in the ACT range has changed the perception of OSU in their eyes,” said Vern Granger, director of admissions at Ohio State. Top high school seniors, according to Granger, now see the school as the academic peer of Michigan and Illinois and in the same orbit as the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina, other large public universities with highly selective admissions.
 
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