(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:23 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:45 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:39 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:36 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  Let me get this straight, B1G members let ND into an academic club as a reward for fighting for decades to remain outside the B1G? And this is after some voted to jettison Nebraska from the academic association soon after they joined the football club? It makes zero sense.

What I'm saying is don't be shocked if the carrot is being dangled for FSU to join. A few affiliations with big wigs who have connections in the BIG would magically get them over the hump.

Separate from this I already brought up how it's big for the usf fans and school. I wouldn't have even mentioned FSU had the one guy not been ridiculous acting like AAU affiliation means you're the better school.

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If and when FSU leaves the ACC it will be for the SEC not the BIG, you can book it. The SEC won’t let the BIG get FSU and they are a better fit there.

We shall see on that ultimately. I hope you're right because conferences are for sports and I don't really care about AAU for FSU.

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The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:23 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:45 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:39 AM)Ragu Wrote:  What I'm saying is don't be shocked if the carrot is being dangled for FSU to join. A few affiliations with big wigs who have connections in the BIG would magically get them over the hump.

Separate from this I already brought up how it's big for the usf fans and school. I wouldn't have even mentioned FSU had the one guy not been ridiculous acting like AAU affiliation means you're the better school.

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If and when FSU leaves the ACC it will be for the SEC not the BIG, you can book it. The SEC won’t let the BIG get FSU and they are a better fit there.

We shall see on that ultimately. I hope you're right because conferences are for sports and I don't really care about AAU for FSU.

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The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

(06-08-2023 08:12 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:23 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 10:45 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  If and when FSU leaves the ACC it will be for the SEC not the BIG, you can book it. The SEC won’t let the BIG get FSU and they are a better fit there.

We shall see on that ultimately. I hope you're right because conferences are for sports and I don't really care about AAU for FSU.

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The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

Speaking of that medical school and such. Very grateful for the Moffitt Cancer Center. My dad makes the drive there every month and it's kept him alive with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in March of 2022

Now he's going to make my wedding ina couple of weeks and likely my sister's baby being born in September. So they forever have my gratitude and appreciation . The place in cape coral would have made that impossible

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(06-08-2023 08:17 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:12 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:23 AM)Ragu Wrote:  We shall see on that ultimately. I hope you're right because conferences are for sports and I don't really care about AAU for FSU.

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The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

Speaking of that medical school and such. Very grateful for the Moffitt Cancer Center. My dad makes the drive there every month and it's kept him alive with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in March of 2022

Now he's going to make my wedding ina couple of weeks and likely my sister's baby being born in September. So they forever have my gratitude and appreciation . The place in cape coral would have made that impossible

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That’s great to hear about your father, hope he stays well. My dad died of pancreatic cancer back in 2011

(06-08-2023 08:28 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:17 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:12 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

Speaking of that medical school and such. Very grateful for the Moffitt Cancer Center. My dad makes the drive there every month and it's kept him alive with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in March of 2022

Now he's going to make my wedding ina couple of weeks and likely my sister's baby being born in September. So they forever have my gratitude and appreciation . The place in cape coral would have made that impossible

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That’s great to hear about your father, hope he stays well. My dad died of pancreatic cancer back in 2011

I think you mentioned that before. Sorry to hear about your dad and thanks for the good thoughts. He's still living a good life amazingly thanks to their cutting edge treatment. Plus he's always been in good shape since Vietnam so that helped him get this treatment while in his 70s. They are directly injecting the site of cancer instead of through the whole bloodstream. It helps with less side effects and is amazing

One of the best medical places Ive ever dealt with though so that's a blessing to have that affiliation for USF. Have a brother in law in NYC who raves about it and helped to work with them and get my dad in . Widely known top notch place is my point on that part.

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(06-08-2023 08:03 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-05-2023 02:28 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(06-05-2023 11:53 AM)Golden Jedi Knight Wrote:  

(06-01-2023 08:57 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote:  

(06-01-2023 06:18 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says it is hard to believe they are aau with that acceptance rate.

1. acceptance rate is a meaningless number and it says nothing at all about the ease or difficulty of being admitted to a university

2. the AAU looks at the overall mission of a university and in The State of Arizona with only 3 public universities it is not possible for a public university to have extremely high admissions standards because that defeats the purpose of them being a public university in a state with limited options

this in contrast to a place like Texas or California with 30 or more public universities each it is much easier for some universities to have extremely high admissions requirements because there are still plenty of other options for students

and the AAU will take that into consideration when they use the "peer" comparisons of universities both in and outside of the AAU

Acceptance rate is one thing, but being allowed to take courses in a particular major at the university is another matter. Not everyone that gets accepted at UCF, for example, is going to be able to get into any undergraduate program they want.

people like to pretend that acceptance rate is a showing of how difficult it is to get into a university when it is in fact no such thing.....it only shows the % of unqualified applicants to qualified applicants with nothing at all that shows what qualifications were needed to be accepted

if one school has admissions that require top 5% of HS class and a 1400 SAT and they have 2,000 applicants and 1,800 of them meet that metric they have a 90% acceptance rate

if another school requires one to be in the top 50% of their HS class and to have a 950 SAT and they have 20,000 applicants and admit 10,000 of them with those qualifications they have a 50% acceptance rate.....but the school with the 90% rate had the much higher qualified applicants and admits

this is not picking on Florida it can be done for any state, but look at the US Snooze and sort by acceptance rate

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/fl?...ection=asc

in Florida two you would expect to see are at the top, but then FAMU is 3rd and then a couple of more one might expect and then universities most people have never heard of show up

with FAMU they are going to have a lot of applicants that are applying there as a "reach" and hoping to be admitted under the "general review" or whatever their university calls it...because FAMU is a state school they can make room for students and collect that funding, but because of the nature of their school it is going to be a more limited overall applicant pool.....but it will appeal to those that "hope" for a general review admit because FAMU is going to have a lot of those so they can hit enrollment goals....while a number of other universities with much more broad applicant pools and no issue having a large or even massive enrollment need very firm admissions and that do not have a lot of slots for "general review" students are not going to get those applicants because applicants know it is a waste of time and effort

there is an opposite effect with some of the very top schools as well.....every valedictorian and salutatorian out there especially if they "check a box" are going to submit applications to places like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford on the hopes they somehow make the grade and probably on the advice of their guidance person.....but the vast majority of them know there is little to no chance, but why not

but when you get down to private universities that do not have near the same cache as those top schools you get applicants looking at them as a "safety school" or as a school they might be able to attend with some tuition support from the school....and they will not have quite the same firm admissions and might need some "general review" admits to round out their freshman class....thus they get more "reach" applicants that are ultimately rejected and thus their admissions rate is lowered

You are stupid

no idiots like you that do not understand basic math and the uselessness of acceptance rates are stupid

(06-08-2023 08:17 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:12 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:23 AM)Ragu Wrote:  We shall see on that ultimately. I hope you're right because conferences are for sports and I don't really care about AAU for FSU.

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The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

Speaking of that medical school and such. Very grateful for the Moffitt Cancer Center. My dad makes the drive there every month and it's kept him alive with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in March of 2022

Now he's going to make my wedding ina couple of weeks and likely my sister's baby being born in September. So they forever have my gratitude and appreciation . The place in cape coral would have made that impossible

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Congrats on the upcoming wedding and here’s hoping dad makes it long into the future

(06-08-2023 02:45 PM)Sellular1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:17 AM)Ragu Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:12 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  

(06-08-2023 08:04 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(06-02-2023 11:36 AM)Cubanbull1 Wrote:  The BigTen conference has always been more than just sports, it has an academic share program which is a huge boost for the universities. If I would have a chance to choose between the two for my school it would be the BigTen.

As for USF as stated earlier getting into the AAU is a major academic goal that the university has been working towards for almost 15 years, many laughed at it, even on this board as an impossible goal. Yet here we are,goal accomplished.

USF is on the move and bright days are ahead.

I laughed

Congrats

Med school made the diff imo

That’s what most of the people that don’t know enough about USF believe. While the Med School is important to USF’s research, the school has moved into many other areas.

Still quite an accomplishment for a university that started in 1960 and certainly there are many other schools with med schools that aren’t in the AAU.

USF set this as a goal back 15 years ago, and worked hard to reach all parameters that AAU schools had. I still remember the many posters on this board that laughed at those goals and repeatedly said USF would never get into AAU.

So yes, great accomplishment and bright days are ahead.

Speaking of that medical school and such. Very grateful for the Moffitt Cancer Center. My dad makes the drive there every month and it's kept him alive with stage 4 pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in March of 2022

Now he's going to make my wedding ina couple of weeks and likely my sister's baby being born in September. So they forever have my gratitude and appreciation . The place in cape coral would have made that impossible

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Congrats on the upcoming wedding and here’s hoping dad makes it long into the future

Much appreciated.Thanks to Moffitt and new cutting edge treatment, he might

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