Grand Valley State University vs. Ferris State University

[Northern GV fan]

[Redwing]

Is it that 2% difference in acceptance rate that makes you feel so superior or the amazing .25 difference in GPA? I'm curious in the answer.

Huh? Where do you get that anyone from the GV side is bragging about superiority? GV's student body isn't the point in this.. little to do with it. As stated above... it's the ATHLETE's that can or can't get in. That has little to do with the academic averages.

[Redwing]

Is it that 2% difference in acceptance rate that makes you feel so superior or the amazing .25 difference in GPA? I'm curious in the answer.

It's the requirement for the athletes... not the entire student body. There are players that GV can't look at and others will admit
due to academics. Agree or not, but it's true.

[Turbonium]

Average acceptance rate has nothing to do with the kids Ferris is able to get in and GV and SV cannot. Ferris can take a kid with a 13 on the ACT. Those other schools cannot.

He's speaking to being so vastly superior overall as a school however, when in reality no one is going to care where you got your degree from unless it's one of a select few universities. It's Grand Valley, not Colorado School of Mines...

[svsu]

Average acceptance rate has nothing to do with the kids Ferris is able to get in and GV and SV cannot. Ferris can take a kid with a 13 on the ACT. Those other schools cannot.

[Turbonium]

The schools you mentioned are all private and a schools "inclusiveness" means nothing in the real world - anyway, it does make a difference when a talented athlete doesn't have the grades to get in one school but can in another especially at the D2 level where the pool is thinner - also, xerris isn't an excellent college and would never be mistaken for one - regardless, they won and we hope to get another chance - good luck this week

Is it that 2% difference in acceptance rate that makes you feel so superior or the amazing .25 difference in GPA? I'm curious in the answer.

[DawgUp]

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What he said...Reach em and teach em lakerman!

[DawgUp]

From Google

GV acceptance rate = 83%
Ferris State accpetance rate = 81%

GV Average SAT = 1145
FS Average SAT = 1055

GV Average GPA = 3.5
FS Average GPA = 3.24

Runnin' Cat according to GV, they're Harvard and we're Last Chance U...lol In the state of Michigan, we go after a lot of the same players, we get some and they get some. Funny because in a lot of the games over the past years I think GV was the more talented team. I think TA recruits for his system very well and the rest comes down to coaching.

If you listen to them, it's like we're an FCS Division 1 team with multiple NFL prospects beating up on all the little D2 schools.

[Thelakerman]

[Thelakerman]

[Runnin' Cat]

From Google

GV acceptance rate = 83%
Ferris State accpetance rate = 81%

GV Average SAT = 1145
FS Average SAT = 1055

GV Average GPA = 3.5
FS Average GPA = 3.24

[BillyGV]

It's fine if GV chooses to set a higher admissions requirement but I don't understand why they would feel because another school chooses to be more inclusive, it's a problem. As long as the football program maintains the universities standard I don't see why a few academically disadvantaged kids aren't given a chance to make the grade.

According to https://blog.prepscholar.com/

It's not necessarily a bad thing that some schools have lower SAT requirements.
It may simply mean that the school is prioritizing other admissions criteria or that the school is opening their school to a wider range of students.

A lot of other colleges, including prestigious schools like Bryn Mawr, Wake Forest, and George Washington University, are no longer requiring the SAT for admission. This decision doesn't mean that these aren't excellent colleges; they just no longer think the SAT is the best criteria for admission to their university.

The schools you mentioned are all private and a schools "inclusiveness" means nothing in the real world - anyway, it does make a difference when a talented athlete doesn't have the grades to get in one school but can in another especially at the D2 level where the pool is thinner - also, xerris isn't an excellent college and would never be mistaken for one - regardless, they won and we hope to get another chance - good luck this week

[BillyGV]

Don't know where the post went but I don't know what game you were watching but I just watched it again and it was a very close game - a few plays/calls here and there and this game has a different outcome - heck, the bogus call of incomplete on the catch to the 19 on GV's first drive of the second half after the fake punt - all the mo was with GV and the ref furthest away over rules the ref right on the ball calling it complete and the receiver down - anyway, game over and hopefully we get another shot

[KleShreen]

Oh I forgot the Harvard of Southwest Michigan.....So did the focus for GVSU change from the early 2000....Not getting everyone D1 drop out anymore, the JUCO players...Beat over and over this last 10 years.

Yes, it did. GV accepted much different student-athletes in the early 2000's than it has for the last 10 years.

[DawgUp]

Thanks Northern. Hopefully we get a chance to run it back with both teams healthy.