 An increase in enrollment applications of 12% upon joining the Big 10 Conference, and applicants who score 20 points higher on the SAT would tend to bear that out.Though some critics feared that the focus on FBS athletics would lower admissions and academic standards, the Rutgers football team set a record high for Academic Performance Rate (APR) of any Football Bowl Sub-division team with a score of 992 in 2010.A final complaint was that the upgraded football schedule would prevent competing against long standing rivals Princeton, Columbia, Lehigh, and Lafayette.