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Originally posted by Honeyslut
Residents are already paying into the system FOR YEARS with house,car, employment taxes etc etc etc .
There should be no waiting list for residents.
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So every state should let in as many residents that want in before allowing non-residents? I'm glad it's NOT like that as my son WANTED to go to a school that was out of state.
And as far as paying into the system, should a resident on welfare be allotted a lower rank on admission than a resident who pays taxes?
I know here in GA there are WAY more applicants than spots. In 2001 they started implementing what's called the Freshman Index which makes a formula from your GPA and SAT score. The minimum for getting into ANY state funded college here is a B average and a 1200 SAT score. There are thousands of kids in trailers in elementary, middle and HS and no one's building more colleges for when they graduate. More and more are going to private 2 and 3 year tech schools to learn a trade which, IMHO, makes a lot more sense than going to state college for 4 years and 2 or so years of that taking classes that have nothing to do with your major
I suspect there will be a huge shift in the college situation over the next 5-10 years. Again, IMHO, there are so many other things wrong with colleges these days that resident and non-resident admissions is a small matter.
