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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason these programs are offered is because the school is playing the marketing game. Those students who are offered the late start or start at satellite campuses have lower GPAs and test scores than the traditional admits. Here is where the school hides the poorer performing legacy students, URM, first generation, etc. By doing this, the school can report only the higher stats of regular start kids to USNWR. The problem is - everyone on campus (or campuses) knows this - so the late start kids feel inferior. Also, a student doing this forfeits the normal freshman excitement of first semester and the bonding with classmates. Do you really want your kid to attend a university that treats its students like this?[/quote]

The late start has been around for a while, I knew several "JFrosh" (January freshmen) 30 years ago when I was in college, and I felt then that the colleges that did that were fairly transparent about the reasons (basically "You're not quite good enough now, but some kids we think are better than you will drop out first semester, so then we can fit you in", and that's also pretty obviously the reason now. I also don't remember them asking the students in the app if they were "willing" to take that offer.

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Many years ago, my college roommate was a JFrosh (at an Ivy) and she had a good transition and was just as smart as anyone else.  Nobody looked down on her and honestly beyond that first week in the dorm, nobody would have even known she came in in January.  I think she may have taken community college classes before starting in January.  She graduated on time.[/quote]

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