How hard is it to get into Iowa undergrad?
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Not very hard. Graduates of Iowa high schools who meet certain guidelines set by the Regents must be admitted, and the schools have considerable lattitude to admit applicants who do not meet those guidelines.
I didn't think similar guidelines have been established for out-of-state applicants, but I was wrong. Isn't the first time.
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I don't think that's precisely correct. For instance, the word "must" doesn't apply because the regents schools can and do admit applicants who don't meet the RAI numbers. We've had several threads about that.
I think that if an in-state applicant meets the RAI, the school is required to admit him/her, though.
And I see that Iowa has complied with the Regents request to come up with a method to apply the RAI to applicants whose high schools don't rank their graduates. They adopted the one ISU has been using.
Interesting note: It looks like ISU uses the same RAI for in-state and out-of-state applicants, but SUI has a higher standard for out-of-state students. I don't know of that's new this year, or if I'm even interpreting it correctly.
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Good God LC. It's the UofI website.
Let's just say it's not so easy that they run out of dorm rooms and have to put kids up in motels like the Tech School in Ames...
I realize it's the U of I web site. I also realize it's poorly phrased. The way it reads, you can't get admitted if you don't meet the RAI number, and that simply isn't the case. There have been numerous stories in the media during the past year or two addressing precisely that point.
Must have been written by an Iowa grad. Needed an editor.
And for the record, I don't know what it's been like recently, but in the '60s some freshmen at Iowa city were on cots in the public areas during the first semester because of housing shortages.
