Baylor draws top students
Provost Randall O’Brien made a couple of points in a speech to faculty and staff last month that I’ve been meaning to write about. First, he noted that Baylor’s first-year scholarship dollars have more than doubled in the last five years, from $12 million in 2002 to $25 million this year. That increase almost certainly has played a direct part in the sharp increase in applications and the corresponding rise in quality of our undergraduate student…