Last time I checked--the University of South Carolina has an accredited program and comes in with 36 but this whole conversation seems a bit middle-schoolish to me Dan On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Gretchen Whitney <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ------------------ Maybe the slacker schools - notably Oklahoma and > Alabama - have so many really accomplished students that they simply look > easy. ;0) > > See the ranking below. > > Danny P. Wallace (Alabama) > Connie Van Fleet (Oklahoma) > > > Number of National Merit Scholars at Institutions with ALA-Accredited > Programs, 2011 > > Oklahoma 204 > Alabama 181 > North Carolina - Chapel Hill 149 > Indiana 85 > Illinois 67 > Maryland 58 > Texas 47 > Michigan 42 > Rutgers 34 > UCLA 34 > LSU 33 > Kentucky 30 > Florida State 27 > Pittsburgh 25 > Iowa 24 > Missouri 23 > Wisconsin-Madison 20 > South Florida 19 > Tennessee 18 > Wayne State 16 > Washington 14 > North Texas 12 > Southern Mississippi 9 > Drexel 5 > Kent State 3 > Denver 3 > Buffalo 2 > Catholic 1 > Syracuse 1 > Hawaii 1 > Rhode Island 1 > > National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2010-11 Annual Report ( > http://www.nationalmerit.org/**annual_report.pdf<http://www.nationalmerit.org/annual_report.pdf> > ) > > -- Dr. Dan Barron, MLIS, Ph.D. Grow or Die!