Higher Admissions Standards -

[Trojan1998]

Beginning with the 2008 entering class the university is increasing its admission requirements. Right now for unconditional admission, it takes an 18 on the ACT and an 870 on the SAT, with a 2.0 GPA. The new requirment is a 19 on the ACT, a 910 on the SAT, and the 2.0 GPA remains the same. Currently the average ACT score for incoming freshmen at Troy is 20.7 (the average for all Alabama's colleges and universities is 20.2).

Here is how some of the other universities in the state stack up:

South Alabama: 19 ACT, 900 SAT, 2.0 GPA

Jacksonville State: 19 ACT, 900 SAT, n/a for GPA

Montevallo: 18 ACT, 870 SAT, 2.0 GPA (I thought UM would have had higher standards)

Auburn-Montgomery: 18 ACT, 860 SAT, 2.3 GPA

Alabama (Tuscaloosa): 20 ACT, 950 SAT, 3.0 GPA

Auburn determines its admission policy based on the number of applicants and the quality of those applicants, since they currently have a limited number of freshmen slots each fall. The average ACT score for incoming Auburn freshmen in 2006 was 24.3.

[Trojan2003]

The new requirment is a 19 on the ACT, a 910 on the SAT, and the 2.0 GPA remains the same.

However, avg. GPA (incoming students) is:

Troy 3.21

South Alabama: 3.07
Jacksonville State: 2.99
North Alabama 2.97
Alabama State 2.63

Auburn: 3.56
Alabama - Tuscaloosa 3.40

Source: Princeton Review

[henrimasters]

do not indicate a students potential success. Rather than increasing admissions standards, Troy should be increasing standards for those teaching the student. The tenured comfortable are killing higher education. Few use proven teaching strategies because it takes too much work on their part. A course with multiple choice tests that represent the majority of assessment methods is an immediate qualifier for slack.