re: Hardest College To Get Into In Each State

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Take the private ivy league schools out of the equation and let’s see who makes that list

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That's redundant only eight Ivy League schools and all are private
and they're only located in the northeast so it wouldn't affect that many states

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I did full time contract work for Emory almost 20 years ago. Even back then it was a liberal cess pool, all the girls were ugly, all the guys were from some far away place. Lots of student visa types. I'm sure the kids were all book-smart as hell but they were also losers. That would be a miserable college experience in my mind. People associate this stereotype with GA Tech but Emory is the pinnacle of the stereotype for the state of Georgia.

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Maybe BamaAtl really does work there.

He's an absolute moron. Well established doctors always corrected his nonsense.

You can tell which states have true Institutions of higher learning. Most of the schools on the list have high graduation rates. They are the kind of schools that attract genuine scholars.

Here are the outliers, and my reasons why they don't have a high graduation rate:

South Dakota: Augustana University 70%
It's South Dakota. How many really should be in college?

Idaho: The College of Idaho 68%
It's Idaho. How many really should be in college?

Louisiana: Tulane University of Louisiana 68%
Most college aged kids can't handle New Orleans.

Kentucky: Berea College 67%
It's Kentucky. How many really should be in college?

Hawaii: Brigham Young University-Hawaii 66%
Most college age kids can't handle Hawaii.

Arkansas: Harding University 66%
Bunch of repressed Church of Christ kids 1st time living away from parents.

New Mexico: St. John’s College 65%
It's New Mexico. How many really should be in college?

North Dakota: University of Mary 56%
It's North Dakota. How many really should be in college?

Montana: Montana State University 55%
It's Montana. How many really should be in college?

Kansas: Friends University 54%
It's Kansas. How many really should be in college?

Nevada: University of Nevada-Las Vegas 53%
Most college aged kids can't handle Vegas.

Oklahoma: Oklahoma Baptist University 51%
It's Oklahoma. How many really should be in college. or Repressed kids away from parents for the 1st time.

Mississippi: Belhaven University 47%
I lived in Mississippi for seven years, and don't remember Belhaven. Is it Baptist?

West Virginia: West Virginia University Institute of Technology 29%
Only class any in-state kids enjoy is Couch Burning 101.

Alabama: Auburn University

Admissions rate: 43.7%
Median SAT scores: 650 in reading and writing, 650 in math
Undergraduate students: 24,782 (65% receive financial aid)
Avg. annual cost of attendance: $23,258
Graduation rate: 78%
Median annual earnings 10-yrs. after entry: $61,042
Schools considered in state: 17
Location: Auburn, AL

Any college tied to seminary training to become a a Catholic Priest? Might be easy to get in academically but then the other requirements like abstaining from sex and other formation requirements to become a priest. The no sex thing would get me kicked out pretty quickly.

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Belhaven in Jackson with only a 47% graduation rate. So why would I want to pay $18k a year for a college that my kid likely won't graduate from?

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It's probably not the difficulty of the schoolwork. They probably got shot.

My whole post was mostly a joke, with a little bit of truth mixed in.

My reasoning for saying "Most college age kids can't handle Hawaii." was me thinking most of the kids going there were probably rich Mormon kids from across the USA going there. If that's not the case, and most of the students are modern Hawaiian natives, then I'll go with "How many should really be in college?"

I had a student who was Mormon. He told me BYU Hawaii was the school many Mormons with money preferred and if they could not get into there they went to BYU in Utah.

He applied to BYU Hawaii and didn’t get in.

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They must rank based solely on accepted applications because unless you are a card-carrying Southern Baptist, getting in is difficult. But U. of Tulsa, OCU and OKCU have higher academic admission standards. OU & OSU may as well.

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Fellow Okie here. Totally agree. University of Tulsa should probably be the one listed for Oklahoma, and it’s not all that difficult if you got the money.
I had a few friends graduate from OBU and they weren’t great students or even had high test scores. I think they all wanted to be preachers though.