Cal gauged as "Semi-easy" at admitting football players 

"Matt Leinart" left a comment linking to a Fan Blogs post about how hard it was for high school football players to get into a particular college. They link to an article in the Orlando Sentinel ranking colleges on a four level scale.

For the Pac 10 Schools:

Buckle down: Stanford

Semi-tough: UCLA

Semi-easy: Arizona, California, Oregon, USC, Washington

All in: Arizona State, Oregon State, Washington State

Quite surprising to see a school with such high admissions standards to seem "semi-easy" to athletes (though we have posted about how Cal was using football players to bring up diversity numbers). This article does, however, seem very arbitrary in a few ways. For one, words like "semi-easy" and "semi-tough" do not say a whole lot about anything. Another, the rankings don't work the same for all the conferences, so "semi-easy" may be ranked "buckle down" in another conference. These problems lead to an article that was an oversimplification of something tough to assess.Email This Post!