Fodder for BH: UGA SAT information

[NCT]

UGA recently released a report from its self-study done in connection with NCAA reporting requirements. The AJC published a post about it, (http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/2010/04/21/what-do-georgia-football-players-make-on-the-sat-new-study-reveals-answer/)which post includes a link to the report itself.

Students entering UGA in 2007:
All males 1250
male athletes 998
football 916
basketball 906

Interestingly, female students are bringing the over-all average down but the student-athlete average up.

The self-study report also is available at the official UGA athletics site: http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=204933244

Does everybody provide such easy acess to these things?

[Jim]

... but considering the quality of our public high schools and their continuing decline even though we've seen a progressive enhancement in "grade inflation", I think a 1250 today isn't what a 1250 was, say 20 years ago. Curious if you can provide a racial breakdown or does that conflict with the university's "privacy" practices.

I'm not so much insinuating that white students bring the score up while black students drop it down but that Americans of Asian ancestry or outright foreign students might give it a bump. Do foreign students have some testing process prior to entering Amerian universities that translate roughly into an ACT or SAT score? Where does Georgia rank in HS evaluations at the national level? At one time Oklahoma ranked 11th. Nowhere near that now and we're not privvy to as many distractions here in the Great Plains as they are in more metropolitan areas.

Further, can you provide me with the percentage of entering freshmen actually graduate in 4 to 5 years and how many B.A.'s are granted vs. B.S., B.B.S. I ask because I want to see how many pyschology, sociology, history, education type degrees there are vs. music (theory and talent required), creative writing/english, accounting, prep for law, dental, medical or osteopaths, engineering, physical and biological sciences, math and statistics.

How extensive is the remedial course sctructure for freshmen?

[Blue Hen]

Football well below FBS average and even SEC average. Basketball pretty poor. Kudos for the access.

[NCT]

Jim, I'm pretty sure Georgia public schools, generally, rank pretty far behind the rest of the nation. But most of the Georgia kids who go to UGA are from suburban Atlanta, where high schools are probably better than average.

The report I linked is produced by the Athletic Association and specifically is designed for reporting to the NCAA, so it deals with student athletes as compared to the student body at large. I have no idea if there is any breakdown like the ones you identified.

The report does contain graduation rates over a 6-year period, because that's what the NCAA uses. Among all students entering school from 1999-2000 through 2002-2003, 76% earned degrees within six years (57% of athletes). And I assume that's just those that earned degrees from UGA, and not those who might have finished somewhere else, since that'd be tough to track.

I don't know what a "remedial course structure for freshmen" is.

[NCT]

Football well below FBS average and even SEC average. Basketball pretty poor. Kudos for the access.

I was surprised by the access. There's an article with a link to the full report on the official athletics site, alongside stories about the men's golf team's 28th SEC championship, the latest softball series, and the upcoming NCAA championship tournament on campus. But hey, that kind of openness is what you expect from an SID named one of the 11 best in the country by the Football Writers Association.