<p>@Mom of Wild Child : If you knew anything about the university you would know that the “chant” is “Woo Pig Sooie”</p>
<p>I am going to be part of the U of A class of 2015. This school does not just receive the students that no one else wants. I was accepted at Hendrix, Vanderbilt, Rice, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard, and after weighing the opportunity cost and talking with people I know who are not in just the honors college at Arkansas but are Fellows as well, I knew that it offered a lot for me and was a really great choice. If anyone wanted to go to Harvard or Yale for the next round of schooling, Arkansas has people in this program get accepted to various Ivy graduate level schools every year. They’ve saved money and won’t be piling debt on top of debt. I am so happy with my choice and I am so excited about the next four years.</p>
<p>What do y’all thing of College on Engineering? Rank, reputation, prestige?</p>
<p>I think of the University of Arkansas as mediocre. Students are accepted unconditionally if they have a 3.0 and either a 930 on the SAT or a 20 on the ACT. <a href=“http://admissions.uark.edu/236.php[/url]”>http://admissions.uark.edu/236.php</a></p>
<p>OP- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi residents can get out of state tuition waived if they have a 24 on the ACT and 3.25 GPA.
<a href=“Academic Scholarship Office | University of Arkansas”>Academic Scholarship Office | University of Arkansas;
<p>Thanks everyone. Interesting that this thread that I started on 1/06/09 keeps being topped. We visited 11 schools, D only applied to 2 and Arkansas was one of them. However, she chose the other school and will be starting in August. (But Arkansas would have been WAY more affordable!)</p>
<p>I was reading on this site where someone was saying the U of A was not a good place to go because most of the students attended high school in Arkansas and the public school system is bad. The reason it is bad is because there is just too much emphasis on athletics and other extra curricular activities. When students spend a class period in an athletic period and another in dance or cheerleading, you can see they are more focused on that than their academics. I taught in another state, and when I came here, I could not believe the money being spent on athletics. For one, we have 10 football coaches that do nothing but keep study hall, coach football, and perform lunch duty. They get paid outrageous stipends and this is all they do. I realize that football is fun to play and watch, but when it is all people think about I think it is a problem.</p>
<p>This appears to be an old thread but thought I’d start here. My HS junior son has fallen hard for UA and Fayetteville, and I’m hoping that the freshman engineering program may help offset the size of the school - sort of a smaller program within a larger campus. I think a smaller school may be a better fit for him, but the LACs we’ve looked at don’t offer the sciences and/or engineering he thinks he’s interested in pursuing. He’s coming out of a very large public high school and doesn’t want to go to a school half the size of his HS. </p>
<p>His ACT scores (32 composite; 33 English, 26 Math, 33 Reading, 36 Science) combined with a 3.75 GPA weighted as I understand UA weights it (adds a point for AP) would seem to put him within reach of Honors program or perhaps some scholarships. </p>
<p>However, I am concerned about the uptick in freshmen admissions, competition for scholarships, etc. and especially class sizes.</p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with the freshman engineering program? I know there is a residential engineering group in one of the dorms, which may or may not be of interest given the dorm itself.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I know this may be an old thread, but I found a useful website for anyone who might come across this.
http://**************.com/university-of-arkansas/reviews/
It has reviews of all different aspects of the school, written by actual students. These opinions are very honest and interesting! Very helpful website.</p>
<p>Hmm, I guess the link didn’t work? Where the <em>'s are, it is supposed to be </em>***********</p>
<p>College p r o w l e r , but with no spaces! Geez… No idea why that wasn’t working.</p>