IMHO, it's an embarrassment what their academic institution is, and what's happened to them as far as their state funding has gone. In my mind it's a wonderful athletic facility but they've watched it at the expense of the university go really down.
Who cares? None of my children or grandchildren would ever go to UO to get a higher education and those of my Oregon relatives who actually attend college and can't get into Oregon State deserve to waste their time in Eugene.
This better-than-thou academic crap is so boring for any real Dawgfan.
The truth is, we have more in common with Oregon academically than we do the top schools in the conference. I threw in Whitman just to make the point of how silly it is because we're not even the most elite school in our state.
Also, Oregon has always been harder to get into than Oregon State. You, like every other engineer I know, think that if you're not making $45,000 a year working for Boeing, you're not living. I moved out of those neighborhoods when I was in my early 30s.
As it pertains to GPA, I believe the #s are even closer, but I don't pay attention to those because they're subjective. SAT scores is where the men are separated from the boys.
And, yes, it is all about undergraduate selectivity. The rest is detail.
SAT SCORE COMPARISON
Reading Math Writing
25% 75% 25% 75% 25% 75%
Berkeley 600 720 650 770 620 740
Whitm. 610 730 610 700 620 720
UW 510 650 570 700 520 640
UofO 492 610 501 613 - -
OSU 470 600 490 620 - -
WSU 460 570 470 600 450 550
UofA 480 600 490 620 480 600
Furd 680 780 700 790 700 780
UCLA 560 690 610 740 590 710
USC 620 720 650 760 640 740
