Pleasedontbanmeagain
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Last I will say about this, because I agree we should keep it basketball...but "up and coming" means they aren't there yet. They aren't very established as a name brand school with prestige. SJU is much more well-known nationally than VCU so that may be a big reason we aren't "up and coming" because we are already "there" in terms of popularity, a decent education, and recognition. By the way these rankings are extremely political and schools have even been caught trying to boost their ranking by kissing up to the publishers or a publisher may be an alumni. It's not a perfect system to say the least. The reason we have a low SAT score on average is because as I've said before, we seem to target (and accept via affirmative action) the groups that notoriously perform lower i.e. inner-city, first time in their family college students who by in large don't make academics a priority as applicants at Nova and PC do. Obviously not every one fits that mold, but by in large you get the point. If we actually decided to have higher standards accepting only the top applicants with no quotas, we would have much better rankings and scores. Instead of accepting for social and political reasons, we should be accepting for academics. That's all I'll say about that, but at the end of the day I'd be for having VCU for basketball.
