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USC and Moore School "increasingly selective," Wall Street Journal says
The University of South Carolina and its Moore School of Business are becoming increasingly
selective in the students they accept as SAT scores soar, according to a lengthy article in the
Nov. 10, 2006, issue of
The Wall Street Journal.
The article, entitled "Beyond Berkeley," said that attending large state schools such as USC is "no longer a birthright. An explosion in applications has allowed the schools to reject students in record numbers."
With a "strong business school and designated by the Carnegie Foundation as an institution of very high research activity (its highest classification), the university has seen applications rise 57 percent over the past decade," according to the article.
At USC's Columbia campus, average combined SAT scores of incoming students "were 61 points higher last year than five years earlier," the article said. The school's "acceptance rate fell to 63 percent from 76 percent in 1995, while the number of students admitted increased by nearly 2,000."
USC's average GPA rose to 3.73 in 2006, compared to 3.40 in 1995, the article said, while annual out-of-state tuition during that time more than doubled, from $8,324 to $20,236.
The article, entitled "Beyond Berkeley," said that attending large state schools such as USC is "no longer a birthright. An explosion in applications has allowed the schools to reject students in record numbers."
With a "strong business school and designated by the Carnegie Foundation as an institution of very high research activity (its highest classification), the university has seen applications rise 57 percent over the past decade," according to the article.
At USC's Columbia campus, average combined SAT scores of incoming students "were 61 points higher last year than five years earlier," the article said. The school's "acceptance rate fell to 63 percent from 76 percent in 1995, while the number of students admitted increased by nearly 2,000."
USC's average GPA rose to 3.73 in 2006, compared to 3.40 in 1995, the article said, while annual out-of-state tuition during that time more than doubled, from $8,324 to $20,236.