re: With the 2 new schools, whats the academic order in the SEC

As I understand this AAU thing, if you do not have a medical school under the flag of the University it makes it very difficult to be considered for AAU status. A number of schools in the SEC do not have a medical school attached to them. The state medical school operates under its' own President and is not attached to the University in question.

When all is said and done, do you get more research dollars, in various other departments, if you are AAU? If a University is AAU because of research in the medical or engineering school how does that translate to the quality of classroom instruction at the undergraduate level??