More ASMSA Grads Choose UALR Over Any Other University
The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts graduated 112 top high school scholars this spring. More of them chose UALR than any other institution of higher learning to pursue their academic dreams.
Statistics from the state’s first residential high school for high academic achievers show 20 of this year’s graduates were headed to UALR.
The second highest number of grads – 17 – chose the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and eight students chose Hendrix College. Three students picked the University of Central Arkansas and two each headed to Arkansas Tech University, Henderson State University, and Lyon College. One ASMSA grad each picked the University of the Ozarks, John Brown University, and Ouachita Baptist University.
“The word is out to young wanna-be engineers, scientists, and others that UALR is the place to be,” said Katie Young, assistant dean for academic affairs and recruitment in UALR’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology. “Our biggest recruiters are former students who have a year or two under their belts at the college and go back to ASMSA testifying to underclassmen that this is where they should go.”
Other institutions that attracted at least one ASMSA student this year included Yale, University of Southern California, the U.S. Naval Academy, Syracuse, Rice, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, and Boston University.
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