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Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:54 pm to NFLSU
Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:54 pm to NFLSU
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“….so the majority of kids will simply spend a year at UTSA and if they can score a whopping 3.0 GPA, they’re headed for a Liberal Arts degree at The University of Texas!!!”
You have to be top 6% of your high school to get into Texas. That eliminates 94% (stay with me here I know math is complicated) of the pool of applicants who want a great education from a top 10 public university.
If a kid wants to go and can't get in, he can go to another university and transfer after he shows he can make the grades. Why would that be a bad thing? How does that diminish the quality of education?
However, the specific departments and programs are hard to get into as well, so even if admitted it is rare a high demand major like computer science will be available to them.
This post was edited on 6/1/23 at 4:56 pm
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Posted on 6/1/23 at 4:58 pm to CISO
Also, a 3.0 GPA is the requirement to submit an application. It ain't like a 3.0 at UTSA guarantees you a spot.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 5:00 pm to CISO
It isn’t a bad thing.
Just don’t walk and talk like you’re smarter and richer than everybody when you had to spend a year or two at a feeder program just to get a random degree.
The message board-education smack talk never fails
Just don’t walk and talk like you’re smarter and richer than everybody when you had to spend a year or two at a feeder program just to get a random degree.
The message board-education smack talk never fails
Posted on 6/1/23 at 5:04 pm to CISO
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You have to be top 6% of your high school to get into Texas. That eliminates 94% (stay with me here I know math is complicated) of the pool of applicants who want a great education from a top 10 public university
There a lot of schools where a whole lot of the 94% getting shut out deserve the opportunity to matriculate at a top 10 public university.
Instead they get replaced by the least stupid mouthbreathers at Failing ISD Highs all across Texas who managed out outlast their meth addicted teenage parent classmates to make it across the graduation stage.
Not a dig at Texas, moreso the percantage based admission rules in Texas in general. But let's not pretend an entire student based largely class ranks alone is some holy grail of achievement. Texas could have a better, more competitive student body overall without the dumbass Top x% rule.
Posted on 6/1/23 at 10:59 pm to CISO
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You have to be top 6% of your high school to get into Texas.
Being in the top 6% of your class in Del Rio TX doesn't exactly make you Harvard material. There's about 1,000 other high schools in the state that are even worse. Even so, you misstated your thesis here. The rule is that top 6% are guaranteed admission, which accounts for about 75% of freshman enrollment. That's a whole bunch of 18-22 ACT scores.
I can guarantee you that for Texas kids, Georgia is much harder to get into than UT Austin, but that's the only SEC school in which this is the case.
Posted on 6/3/23 at 1:54 pm to CISO
You ags and your inferiority complex.
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