Transferring from a community college to a university can cause many woes. And ASU not making Kiplinger's 2008-09 list of 100 best values in public universities and colleges is just another woe to add to the list. The list is compiled each year by data from more than 500 public four-year colleges. The list was then narrowed to 120 and were ranked by the percentage of the 2008-09 freshman class scoring 600 or higher on the verbal and math components of the SAT, or scoring 24 or higher on the ACT, admission rates, freshman retention rates, student-faculty ratios, and four and six-year graduation rates.
Have you ever wondered if there was such a site out on the web all about bashing people that you simply hate for the things that they do or say? Well there is, and it's pretty brutal, it's called thedirty.com. The dirty is a site that allows anyone to send in a picture of someone and completely bash them, telling the public who they are and why you hate them. I have viewed this site plenty of times and it amazes me.
It seems that ASU is more concerned with higher profits than with helping students overcome mistakes from their past. When I applied to the Cronkite School for Journalism, I was denied due to a low GPA, despite the fact that I have gotten straight As for the past 26 credit hours and have a 3.