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aTm accepts top 10% in Texas, and has 60k plus students, with a dramatic increase in enrollment the last 10-15 years

Texas accepts top 7% in Texas, and has maintained a 50k student enrollment for the last 30-40 years

At 60k plus students, why does aTm not limit the top 10% acceptance to 7% or lower?

seems like a no brainer?

its so obvious the dramatic increase in class size is hurting the university, Arizona State and Central Florida are saying hello!

I don't think we have a choice. State Law.

UT Austin gets a waiver because it is limited by 40 acres of space in Austin (so we have been told). A&M College Station has enough space to build and admit more than 200,000 undergrad students if necessary (so we have been told). Eventually, the state is going to have to give A&M College Station a waiver on the 10% rule or exempt the flagships all together.

Something has got to give.

Of course, Baylor is over there jacking off to our unfortunate burden and using their political clout to keep it that way.

These old rivalries run long and a lot deeper than the football field. That's why I am so glad we left. It's very unhealthy to deal with a toxic political environment that spills over onto the field of sports.

We talk a lot of unjustified shite to all the other SEC programs, but it's all in fun and never gets too far beyond good-natured ribbing. It's so much more pleasant.

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Posted by texashorn

Member since May 2008

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Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:23 pm to KaiserSoze99

You clod, the University of Texas campus is NOT 40 acres. That's just the original part.

UT Austin got an exemption from the top 10 percent rule.

Aggy president said that was racist and they are going full steam ahead, 77 percent acceptance rate and 75,000 students.

Here's what the smarmy west coast fig aggy prez has to say:

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A&M has always received fewer automatic admittees, but the number is growing. School officials say they are fine with that.

“If you are really critical of the 10 Percent Rule, what you are saying is that we don’t want the kids from the [less competitive schools],” said A&M President Michael Young.

Fighting the rule, Young said, sends the message to those schools that “we would prefer to have an admissions process that doesn’t require us to admit you.”

“I don’t know that I would leap to join a school that communicated that to me,” Young said. “But I do think you are going to succeed here [at A&M]. The data show that.”

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