<p>JWT-
As countingdown said in post# 10, the Hope scholarship, which essentially covers in-state tuition for GA students with a B or better average, has had an incredible effect of the State of GA schools, keeping a lot of the top students in state at both Tech and UGA (as well as some of the smaller schools like GA State, GA Southern, Kennesaw, Southern Tech, to name a few), and has significantly improved the brainpower of the big state U’s. With that comes better faculty to please the better students, etc. I believe this is in large part why the schools have improved so much in the rankings.</p>