The middle ACT range at UA keeps getting wider: 23-32!

gusmahler
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:02:16 +0000

I’ve never seen another school with that range. Most schools with a X-32 range is something like 28-32 or 27-32.

Last year, I thought it was 24-31 for Bama. So it looks like both ends are moving?

As for whether or not students on the low end are subsidizing student’s on the high end, that’s obviously true. Everyone with a 33 or above gets free or nearly free tuition. So Bama isn’t getting much money from them. They have to get that money from somewhere.

The optimists way of looking at it is that a state school is supposed to serve the needs of the state. By admitting many lower stats kids, that’s how Bama is doing it.

As for what 23-32 represents, my understanding is that the 25th percentile score is 23 and the 75th percentile score is 32. It’s highly unlikely that the 75th percentile score is exactly 32. It’s rounded So we don’t know if 25 percent of the student body has 33 and above or if 25 percent has 32 and above.