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re: a&m fans...do non-Cadets hang out with Cadets?
Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:52 pm to Cooter Davenport
Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:52 pm to Cooter Davenport
Whoa, you should probably take a Lap.
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:52 pm to Tridentds
For sure. I was just quoting cardboard.
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Posted on 10/18/16 at 12:08 am to cardboardboxer
quote:I lived in H-town 15 years after graduating from LSU. I think this definitely true. I knew a couple of former CTs, and I dated 2 aggie chicks. They both were in different stages of getting weaned off of CTs. I helped.
There are whole sororities filled with nothing but women who want to date corps boys.
FWIW, I married neither, and they eventually married non-Aggies.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 12:49 am to clamdip
I'm pretty sure that 66,000 number people keep quoting is for the entire system. I can't find numbers for Fall 2016, but as of last year:
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I seriously doubt the College Station campus grew by 11,000.
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The Fall (2015) University total enrollment reached 60,826 students. College Station campus enrolled 55,092
students, 90.6% of the total.
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I seriously doubt the College Station campus grew by 11,000.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 12:53 am to SFTL
Also:
Around 46.5k undergrad is right on par with the sips and Michigan. "The university is growing too fast (or too big)" meme is one of the most overly dramatized bits of nonsense among our graduates.
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Undergraduate enrollment makes 76.6% (46,575) of the total student body. Doctoral students constituted
33.4% (4,766) of the total graduate and first professional student population (14,251).
Around 46.5k undergrad is right on par with the sips and Michigan. "The university is growing too fast (or too big)" meme is one of the most overly dramatized bits of nonsense among our graduates.
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Posted on 10/18/16 at 12:56 am to Tridentds
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That puts the corp of cadets at less than 1% of total student body.
The figure cited is for the entire system, minus Qatar. College Station campus is 60K and change.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 1:01 am to Nguyening
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I love the band, I like the corps, I just think their media exposure is misrepresentative of the actual university.
Of course it is. But the cameras can look anywhere they want. They naturally gravitate to the Corps because it is different than anywhere outside the service academies. The bullshite about placing them in front of the cameras is just that - bullshite. If they moved, the cameras would move. I was not a fan of Corps block seating... until I saw how much it upset civilians. And now I'm all in.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 1:06 am to finestfirst79
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"The university is growing too fast (or too big)" meme is one of the most overly dramatized bits of nonsense among our graduates
No joke. Thanks for stating this. The numbers widely reported are not what's on the main campus.
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I had a couple of friends in the corps, didn't see them all that much outside of class usually. One buddy from my small high school class wound up as a Yell Leader. That was always a fun time hanging out with him.
Additionally, and this will seem very odd to other SEC schools but the frat population during my time there (mid to late 90s) was also really, really, small. Like 5,000 people out of 40,000. It was pretty damn nice.
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Posted on 10/18/16 at 6:30 am to finestfirst79
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The bullshite about placing them in front of the cameras is just that - bullshite. If they moved, the cameras would move.
I don't agree with this. Would we still have some CTs show up on camera because it is a unique aspect? Yes. But if it weren't for the Corps Block grouping them all together and making a spectacle out of them, they'd show up on camera much less often and the balance would be filled by hotties.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 7:42 am to Eli Goldfinger
So not all cadets go into the military? Did I read that right somewhere on this thread?
I guess I thought it was like a&ms ROTC type program. I guess not if it has no real military commitment after graduation for most.
I guess I thought it was like a&ms ROTC type program. I guess not if it has no real military commitment after graduation for most.
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Posted on 10/18/16 at 8:52 am to TOSOV
Wow...must have hit someones sore spot with my question....ha.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 9:00 am to EKG
Daaaaaamn girl, that was a roast.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 9:02 am to TOSOV
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So not all cadets go into the military? Did I read that right somewhere on this thread?
About half of them do. You have to make the decision at the (end?) of your Sophomore year as to whether you are going commissioning track "Contract" (and therefore need to start taking the military classes) or stay in as a Drill & Ceremonies (D&C in A&Mspeak) cadet.
This post was edited on 10/18/16 at 9:03 am
Posted on 10/18/16 at 9:08 am to Cooter Davenport
Cool. Thanks for the info.
Posted on 10/18/16 at 11:05 am to TOSOV
There are also quotas, not everyone that wants to join after college can.
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