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Feb 19, 2017
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Ulysses14
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A decent portion of the LDS population is not HC ready.
If that portion is correlated with lower income members, then that could explain the lower access rate at BYU.
While BYU may be willing to compromise on academics to increase access, its not willing to do so on HC matters.
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Brookings: "Rock-bottom social mobility score surprises BYU community"
Gustav
2/19/17 2:30pm
This actually doesn't surprise me. My anecdotal evidence at BYU told me I came
Lieutenant America
2/19/17 2:39pm
What apartments did you live in?
IGlowInTheDark
2/19/17 2:46pm
Something they neglect to mention
Kid_A
2/19/17 2:48pm
Or the assumption that "help is a phone call away"
IGlowInTheDark
2/19/17 2:51pm
No other way to put it...that's why ByU-I exists.
IGlowInTheDark
2/19/17 2:50pm
lol
southernfriedcougar
2/19/17 3:31pm
After about 5 min of trying to find a tactful way of phrasing it...
IGlowInTheDark
2/19/17 3:50pm
If less than 2% of students come from the bottom 20% in incomes
donnerstag
2/19/17 2:59pm
it goes back to the 3 things to do to avoid poverty:
ds7
2/19/17 3:37pm
I wonder what percent of active LDS are in the bottom 20%? One thing that may impact our score is that we do such a
HarlemCoug
2/19/17 3:40pm
But don't the poor join the church in greater numbers?
Ulysses14
2/19/17 4:15pm
I think nearly all who apply to BYU are active LDS.
HarlemCoug
2/19/17 4:50pm
who can get above a 29 on the ACT...
ds7
2/19/17 4:52pm
Yes, but their children, who would often be the ones applying to BYU, are often
colton
2/19/17 10:20pm
so, bascally, BYU pulls from a pool of people who make good life choices...
ds7
2/19/17 3:11pm
Say what?
TNT
2/19/17 3:13pm
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rivercitycoug
2/19/17 3:29pm
I'd be interested to see the results across the CES colleges
ColoSpgs
2/19/17 3:25pm
Seems accurate to me. I didn't meet many students that were raised in abject
Windward_Coug
2/19/17 3:28pm
Almost seems like a made up category for ranking schools
byu1
2/19/17 3:43pm
Better headline, 'BYU among top 10 in college success, but could broaden pool'
VirginiaYewt
2/19/17 3:46pm
My guess is the HC keeps our access rate lower than other schools
Ulysses14
2/19/17 4:13pm
yep...LDS lifestyle
ds7
2/19/17 4:30pm
Excellent point
KingDave
2/19/17 4:34pm
Almost the entire application pool is LDS
donnerstag
2/19/17 5:06pm
A decent portion of the LDS population is not HC ready.
Ulysses14
2/19/17 5:23pm
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