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________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Shane Ford UF responds to SAT report By Nathan Crabbe <mailto:[email protected]> Gainesville Sun Staff writer Published: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 1:13 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 1:13 p.m. The Gator football team recently received a critical look in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story, reprinted Monday in The Gainesville Sun, showed that football and men's basketball players on the top college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates. The biggest gap at the 54 public universities investigated occurred at UF, where players scored 346 points lower than the overall student body. UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes said SAT scores are just one indicator of academic success. Applications from athletes are reviewed by a committee that includes faculty and admissions officials, she said, but not athletic officials. She said the group admits students it believes will graduate. She pointed to UF's graduation rate of athletes, which at 87 percent is behind only Vanderbilt University in the SEC. "University of Florida athletes are finding success here in Gainesville," she said. The graduation rate for UF football players is lower, at 68 percent, according to a study by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. UF's rate is tied for 26th best among the 68 teams playing in bowl games this season, the study found. Its opponent in the national championship, the University of Oklahoma, is ranked third-to-last with a rate of 46 percent. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
