<p>well not everyone wants a “flagship”… some want a smaller school, some want a specific program at a school, some want the opportunities offered by that school. uah is a great school known for engineering, and 10K per year for a college education is becoming a “deal”… i do agree that the gpa criteria is a little strange here but a school has a right to offer what it will or not offer anything i guess… if you like the deal you apply, if you dont you dont. sad that they left it to the last minute to make the change but when S2 applied to schools a few years ago, same thing happened at 2 different schools oos for him. it sucked but we just took them off the list.</p>