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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 1533494, member: 153"] Admission scores though skew. They diminish in importance with the different size of the schools. It used to be schools increased scores by limiting seats. SMU, Baylor and TCU are smaller privates. The big state schools also have different missions to serve their own students from the state primarily, which will limit the applicant pool (i.e. it's harder gaining admission from out of state, so state students have an advantage). After that, it's not just a matter of research $ or grad admissions, but I would look at the level of student and faculty support (i.e. the cost per student). Assuming that in the highest Carnegie tier, salaries average around $80k, I'd bet this factor is more important than admission stats in terms of the quality of education. The more $$$ per student, the more faculty support there is, and the more full-time faculty. Naturally, the best faculty will gravitate to the schools with the best support in terms of salary and expenditures for teaching/research, though of course geography is a factor. Oklahoma definitely suffers in that regard. But then so does the entire B12 outside of Texas. [/QUOTE]