How is St. John's a D1 school?

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<p>I don’t understand how this University is a D1 school. Getting in is a joke. My GPA is atrocious and my SAT’s were mediocre, and I still managed to get in. Is this school serious? This school is definitely not one of the best in New York. Not even in New York City! I actually laughed when I read some posts awhile ago, people mentioning St. John’s in the same sentence as NYU, Columbia, Fordham, etc … you’ve got to be kidding me. This school will ACCEPT anyone. I was shocked when I found out that I actually got in.</p>

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<p>Big (L)east academics…</p>

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Their basketball team could dominate the other three</p>

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<p>St. John’s lost to Cornell last night on its “home court” (Madison Sq. Garden).</p>

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Division status and selectivity are not related. This is patently obvious.</p>

<p>For someone with a poor academic record, you’re entirely too ungrateful about an acceptance.</p>

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<p>what fool would group all these schools together as if they are all in the same tier…</p>

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<p>The only academic standard that a D1 school has to uphold is the NCAA’s abysmally low sliding-scale standard (i.e. 1010 on CR+M with a 2.0 GPA). Heck, St. John’s isn’t anything to laugh at when you consider the lack of academic focus at some other D1s. It makes me think of FSU; even though it’s not a bad school its focus on the athlete-student is shameful.</p>

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<p>And OP, if you’re insulting a school that accepted you because it accepted you, you’re going to hate the next four years of your life.</p>

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<p>A school’s NCAA division is just a function of the amount of resources it’s willing to sink into its athletic program. When you think of it, it’s easier for a school with fewer academic restrictions to compete in D1 than a school with high academic standards.</p>

<p>OP, were you thinking of U.S.News’ “first tier” instead of the NCAA’s “Division 1”?</p>

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<p>St. John’s was crap in the seventies, crap in the eighties, crap in the nineties, crap in the oughts, and moving into the tens remains CRAP!!!</p>

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<p>^ “Oughts” - I’ve heard that term thrown around here and there. Is that now the unofficial way to colloquially say “2000s”?</p>