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redguard117;2280509; said:
This is Milliner's favorite course



Are you [censored]ing kidding me?

Alabama has the gall to call themselves a University, when a full scholarship is provided to a student who as a Junior has just learned what the quadratic formula is. Unbelievable. Pack up the bags folks. There's no competing with that.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe anything below 101 level in college is considered remedial. All 'entry level' college courses are typically 101, iirc.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;2280530; said:
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe anything below 101 level in college is considered remedial. All 'entry level' college courses are typically 101, iirc.
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You are correct, at least how the numbering system works in Ohio. In order to be college level, the leading digit must be a '1'. So say a course in Ohio is numbered Math 0800, it would be remedial.

Also, any college level mathematics course has to build on a prior course. For example, if there is a course called Intermediate Algebra it would have a number with a leading digit of '0' since it is remedial. Then the following course must build upon this course. One simply can't have a course, give it a leading digit of '1' and call it college level. The topics must support it being a college level course.

Seeing as what that course is a pre-requisite for (Finite Mathematics or pre-calculus algebra (College algebra)), this mathematics course would be classified as remedial in the state of Ohio.
 
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redguard117;2280509; said:
This is Milliner's favorite course

Are you [censored]ing kidding me?

Alabama has the gall to call themselves a University, when a full scholarship is provided to a student who as a Junior has just learned what the quadratic formula is. Unbelievable. Pack up the bags folks. There's no competing with that.
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This kid graduated from a pretty rural high school in Alabama, so I'm not surprised if his basic preparation was lacking. As for the "gall" of a school offering remedial classes, I think a state university in Alabama is well-advised to provide the necessary underpinnings for students from the state, which supports its public schools hardly at all, to learn at a college level.

I know enough about U of A to say one can get a quality education there; I've known plenty of its graduates who were highly competent professionals. Without a doubt, the B1G has schools with more academic prestige than most SEC schools. But let's not go overboard with self-congratulation.
 
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MaxBuck;2280567; said:
This kid graduated from a pretty rural high school in Alabama, so I'm not surprised if his basic preparation was lacking. As for the "gall" of a school offering remedial classes, I think a state university in Alabama is well-advised to provide the necessary underpinnings for students from the state, which supports its public schools hardly at all, to learn at a college level.

I know enough about U of A to say one can get a quality education there; I've known plenty of its graduates who were highly competent professionals. Without a doubt, the B1G has schools with more academic prestige than most SEC schools. But let's not go overboard with self-congratulation.
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I think you've missed the point entirely.
 
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MaxBuck;2280625; said:
Then perhaps you should have been less abstruse in making it.
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We are talking about a football player, no? I thought it pretty clear that I was questioning the role of Alabama's players as student-athletes. I respect Alabama as an institution, I don't see why you would bring that up when I was referring to the quite evidently non-existent standards the school has for its athletic department's academics. The school as an institution and the school's athletic department are two entirely separate spheres - I was referring to latter and not the other.
 
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redguard117;2280632; said:
... I was questioning the role of Alabama's players as student-athletes.
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OK, fair enough, but how this differentiates Bama from any other Big Time College Football program is a mystery to me. Every single one has players who would have difficulty balancing a checkbook or writing a grammatically correct sentence.

Of course, Dee Milliner will very soon have a checkbook with more commas in its numbers than either yours or mine.
 
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Can we bring this discussion back to hot sauce. For pure flavor, this is the one for me.
 
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