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Gordon tightens enrollment standards

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Monday, May 9. 2011
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Gordon College is on track to tighten considerably its enrollment requirements for fall semester 2011, interim president Shelley Nickel told the Gordon Foundation last month.

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#1 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 03:18 PM
Thank God!!!!
#2 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 03:50 PM
This should have been done long ago! It does not state if the ones attending now will be held to the same requirements. I am in hopes that it will. Them perhaps the quality of students will improve!
#3 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 04:25 PM
This is very good to hear. I hope the school is listening to the citizens of Barnesville and hearing their concerns. The citizens feel very negative toward the school because of what the college has turned into by not having enrollment standards. Please also consider criminal backgrounds as a part of the process to help eliminate those with records and on probation from attending and ruining our great community.
#4 unknown on 05/09/11 at 05:25 PM
Finally someone with some smarts in the office
#5 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 05:34 PM
Yes, thank you! Maybe now we can get good students who actually finish a semester.
#6 Gordon Student on 05/09/11 at 07:35 PM
IT IS STILL VERY EASY TO GET ACCEPTED INTO GORDON, DONT LET THEM FOOL YOU.ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TAKE THE COMPASS TEST AND YOU WILL GET ACCEPTED.
#7 G.C. on 05/09/11 at 07:42 PM
Gordon lowered the standards for one reason only,,,TO GET AS MUCH MONEY AS THEY COULD!!! Now it is a school that most of us have become ashamed to have in our county. Wake up, get the trash off campus. When I was in college in the early 70's, you had student loans and maybe if you were lucky, a scholarship. YOU PAID YOUR WAY!!! When are we going to quit taking care of all the lowlifes in society just for the numbers sake. Put the complete prior admission standards back in force, and remember, a college education is not a right, but a privilege. Not to be denied because of race or religion, but also not to be admitted just because of race or religion.
#8 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 08:45 PM
Doesn't seem like much of a requirement.
#9 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 08:46 PM
A student can also get in with a 1.7 GPA, just as long as they can shoot above a 70 with their "gack".
#10 Anonymous on 05/09/11 at 09:07 PM
kudos..America will be a better place with more uneducated people roaming the streets. who would collect my garbage? a college educated trash collector? i dont think so. and dont even think about asking for food stamps. there are plenty of perfectly edible scraps in the garbage. my daughter doesnt eat red meat and my dog only likes purina. there will be a treat in the trash on thursday!!
#11 Anonymous on 05/10/11 at 01:25 PM
Please Vote for LCCHS...

http://www.high5sports.com/dpp/field_trip/high-5-field-trip-poll-20110519-es
#12 Anonymous on 05/10/11 at 01:27 PM
Please vote for LCCHS!!!!

http://www.high5sports.com/dpp/field_trip/high-5-field-trip-poll-20110519-es
#13 Anonymous on 05/11/11 at 04:37 AM
Hopefully this will keep out all those kids that are just coming for a check the government gives them. They move into apartments around our town and cause problems, shootings and alot of violence. Then they never finish school, they are just here for the money.
#14 Anonymous on 05/11/11 at 09:33 AM
I was in Giant Mart the other day and it was full of bust'n slack guys and the girls looked like hookers. They walked down from, you guessed it, Gordon! Please say it's gonna get better. One guy even spit on the floor near produce. Do we want this around our food supply.
The big shots are make'n money off keeping those dorms full.
Do a records check and see who owns the dorm. Not Gordon.
Just another under the table deal for political wigs.
#15 LogicInTheMist on 05/11/11 at 09:53 AM
That is blatant discrimination and is unjustifiable in any circumstance. Gordon is a public, not private college. If that ever happened, I would have the ACLU down here in a heartbeat.
#16 Anonymous on 05/11/11 at 01:12 PM
Pell does not pay if your grades are not good. They may get one check but no more if they continue to flunk.
#17 Old Dog on 05/13/11 at 08:28 AM
They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but if I'd known it was so easy to get into Gordon I would've enrolled! Dang...I bet I could've gotten a PELL grant to even pay for it.
#18 Anonymous on 05/14/11 at 10:52 AM
Discrimination? How? Please explain.
#19 Anonymous on 05/14/11 at 09:00 PM
How does Gordon recruit students? Do they put up billboards in Atlanta for free housing? Looks to me like they need to stay the heck outta the ATL. d
#20 nisey on 08/04/11 at 11:29 PM
i understand that raising requirements improves the lecel at which student learn but to say that raising requirments keep out all the "thugs" is too much. who ever said that blacks werent smarts?!? anyone?!? most of the students in this school sre just here because they can better themselvess by getting a education no matter there race and since this school is mostly black and the graduation percentage is high. you cant blame a whole race/school for something one person did!!
#21 Anonymous on 08/05/11 at 07:15 AM
Nisey- hope you are not a Gordon student because if you are, the requirements need to be elevated even more. I'm not saying that you aren't "smarts," but good grief!
#22 Concord Resident on 08/05/11 at 08:22 AM
Please explain how this was discriminatory? Or do you have such a low opinion of certain races yourself that you just ASSUMED this was discriminatory?
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