By state, the most difficult colleges to get into

[moomoo]

Not much going on, so I thought I would post this article, with the Badgers in mind.

So not only is our hoops program better historically, but our current academic requirements are more stringent.

http://www.businessinsider.com/hardest-college-to-get-into-by-state-2015-9

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Snikes!  Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health may want to rethink their promotional photo.

[Dawson Rental]

Snikes!  Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health may want to rethink their promotional photo.

All their cash must have gone into student recruitment.  I can't wait to hear from Creighton guys on their losing out to Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health.

[Eldon]

All their cash must have gone into student recruitment.  I can't wait to hear from Creighton guys on their losing out to Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health.

I knew there was something about Creighton I didn't like...

Well, hopefully the Big12 doesn't snatch NMCNAH before the Big East can

[CTWarrior]

Snikes!  Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health may want to rethink their promotional photo.

What's with the old couch on the lawn at Reed College in Oregon?

[Benny B]

What's with the old couch on the lawn at Reed College in Oregon?

They can't move it.  It has tenure, apparently.

[Eldon]

They can't move it.  It has tenure, apparently.

Let's hope for the couch's sake that Reed never has a home game against WVU, I'm really a badger fan?

[Dr. Blackheart]

What's with the old couch on the lawn at Reed College in Oregon?

Left burning there by Steve Jobs after a flag football loss.

[MerrittsMustache]

Based on acceptance rate, only 5 states' "most difficult college to get into" are easier to get into than the state of Wisconsin's.

I'm not sure what this means but...whatever.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

They can't move it.  It has tenure, apparently.

Benny on a roll today!

[Dawson Rental]

They can't move it.  It has tenure, apparently.

They just might be able to, there was once a student organization at Reed called the Motorized Couch Collective  which was dedicated to installing motors and wheels into furniture.

[dgies9156]

I would note proudly that when they talk about tough colleges to get into and they show a building on the Marquette Campus, they show the Journalism School (or College of Communications as it is known now.

Didn't see the College of Engineering anywhere! LOL

[warriorchick]

I would note proudly that when they talk about tough colleges to get into and they show a building on the Marquette Campus, they show the Journalism School (or College of Communications as it is known now.

Didn't see the College of Engineering anywhere! LOL

It's actually rather ironic seeing as  Communications is one of the easiest colleges to get into within Marquette. 

If they wanted to represent the toughest, it would have been the Nursing Building.

[jficke13]

Ah the College of Communications, (one of) my college and the one I affectionately refer to as "fake college."

[avid1010]

Google tells me 47.5 for UW?

[Tugg Speedman]

Stanford has the lowest rate in the country at 5%.  Why isn't it listed for CA (Cal Tech is listed instead)?

[MURFC]

Stanford has the lowest rate in the country at 5%.  Why isn't it listed for CA (Cal Tech is listed instead)?

If you read the intro paragraph, they lay out the methodology.  Acceptance rate was only part of the equation.  They also factored in ACT/SAT scores.

[jsglow]

I would note proudly that when they talk about tough colleges to get into and they show a building on the Marquette Campus, they show the Journalism School (or College of Communications as it is known now.

Didn't see the College of Engineering anywhere! LOL

Ha.  Know your teasing but Johnston is Marquette's most iconic building.  So dgies, are you old enough to know what Marquette Hall was called way back in the day?

[dgies9156]

Ha.  Know your teasing but Johnston is Marquette's most iconic building.  So dgies, are you old enough to know what Marquette Hall was called way back in the day?

No. I'm not that old.

I might be wrong but think my Dad (MU 1955) called it the "Science Building."

[avid1010]

If you read the intro paragraph, they lay out the methodology.  Acceptance rate was only part of the equation.  They also factored in ACT/SAT scores.

and UW had about a 1pt edge on MU in this area as well.  college rankings are a joke.  i heard MU failed to reach its enrollment goal pretty handily.  UW now looking to accept more students from out of state.  fewer students nationwide going to college.  going to be some tough times ahead for many colleges/universities i think.

[muwarrior69]

Ha.  Know your teasing but Johnston is Marquette's most iconic building.  So dgies, are you old enough to know what Marquette Hall was called way back in the day?

Back in my day Johnston had chemistry laboratories on the 2nd and third floors.

[Dawson Rental]

and UW had about a 1pt edge on MU in this area as well.  college rankings are a joke.  i heard MU failed to reach its enrollment goal pretty handily.  UW now looking to accept more students from out of state.  fewer students nationwide going to college.  going to be some tough times ahead for many colleges/universities i think.

Add the rise of the internet, steadily rising federal student aid and the law of unintended consequences and voila! you have failing universities.  The education "bubble" has started to deflate.

[Benny B]

Add the rise of the internet, steadily rising federal student aid and the law of unintended consequences and voila! you have failing universities.  The education "bubble" has started to deflate.

Kids are smart and deserve some credit... even the ones who shouldn't be in college.  A lot of them are figuring out that they're better off jumpstarting their career in HVAC, surgical tech, one of the trades, etc. (essentially, anything you can learn at a community college) and start making $35-40k/year rather than incur $100,000 in student loans for the same income five years later.

When I lived in Indy, I met a kid who wasn't even old enough to drink, and he was pulling in 50 large a year working in a factory while living with his parents... he started working there in facilities on weekends when he was 15, the summer after he turned 17, they made him a machinist assistant, when he turned 18 he was setting up and running a CNC on his own, and at 19 he started programming the CNCs.  The kid was sharp as a tack and was taking courses at either Ivy Tech or IUPUI in the evenings towards an associates degree... he's probably running the shop by now, and even if he's already maxed out his career earnings, without any student debt, he had a few hundred thousand in the bank before he turned 25.

[warriorchick]

Kids are smart and deserve some credit... even the ones who shouldn't be in college.  A lot of them are figuring out that they're better off jumpstarting their career in HVAC, surgical tech, one of the trades, etc. (essentially, anything you can learn at a community college) and start making $35-40k/year rather than incur $100,000 in student loans for the same income five years later.

When I lived in Indy, I met a kid who wasn't even old enough to drink, and he was pulling in 50 large a year working in a factory while living with his parents... he started working there in facilities on weekends when he was 15, the summer after he turned 17, they made him a machinist assistant, when he turned 18 he was setting up and running a CNC on his own, and at 19 he started programming the CNCs.  The kid was sharp as a tack and was taking courses at either Ivy Tech or IUPUI in the evenings towards an associates degree... he's probably running the shop by now, and even if he's already maxed out his career earnings, without any student debt, he had a few hundred thousand in the bank before he turned 25.

This.  I worked with a woman whose 22-year-old son was making that kind of coin working  high-tech machinery --the computer part of the machine, not the mechanical part.  Got his training at a local community college, and to top it off, the kid wasn't really all that smart in the traditional sense.  He would have totally flamed out in a traditional 4-year college.

[keefe]

Left burning there by Steve Jobs after a flag frisbee football loss.

More accurate for the PNW