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Students
First in Class
| USF News
USF welcomed its strongest ever freshman class in the fall — a class prepared for success.
The average SAT score for the Fall 2011 freshman class on the university's Tampa campus was 1203, up 27 points from the previous year. Average ACT scores rose as well, up one point to 27. Grade-point average for the Fall 2011 class was up one-tenth of a point, from 3.81 last year to 3.91 for the current semester.
Conference Focuses on Success
| USF News
"Thoughts become your words. Words become your actions. Actions become your habits. Habits become your character. Character becomes your destiny."
It was a message Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and just-named recipient of the Carnegie Corporation's 2011 Centennial Academic Leadership Award, repeated during his keynote address at the 2011 Student Success Conference at USF.
INTO Learning
This fall, nearly 600 international students from 33 countries began preparing for transition to a formal degree program at USF.
The students are part of INTO USF, a unique partnership between USF and INTO University Partnerships (INTO) that helps prepare international students for a university education, while boosting the university's international student enrollment.