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Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:11 pm to Roger Klarvin
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A&M is fantastic as far as public schools go. We're consistently in the top 20 among public schools according to national rankings and top 5 in starting salaries of graduates.
I'm back in here you fricking queers. Provide some statistics on this top 20? I believe there is already a link in the thread and you aren't in the top 20.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:14 pm to FincAg11
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You literally just made this up. Way to reinforce your school's academic stereotype.
I never said shite about LSU and Vandy.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:18 pm to John Maplethorpe
The AAU is literally a Frat/Country Club. You have to be voted in by membership and MANY members have just been "in the club" for 80 years and have long since lost their academic prowess. The AAU really didn't vote in new members for decades and thus A&M didn't get in until 2001 in spite of the fact that A&M is an elite research spending school. The AAU is very East Coast/Midwest oriented because those were most of the big research universities back when it was founded. They also discount Ag research almost completely which is BS imo.
Now that the SEC has 4 AAU schools it should be able to get more members. Georgia seems most likely to be next with GTech as a sponsor as well but Georgia suffers from not being a huge research spend school and not having an on campus Med School. Auburn and Bama are next on deck.
BTW, this is also a big reason why if the SEC expands again they will move heaven and earth to get North Carolina and might even take UVA or Va Tech. UVA and UNC are Top 5 Public schools and they have serious pull in the AAU. Brush it off all you want but AAU membership can mean tens of millions of dollars per year in research spending and there is nothing a University President would want to add to their resume more than having their school attain membership during their tenure. They have their little egg head club meetings that academics love. Loftin mentioned multiple times his relationship with Bernie Manchin from UF at AAU meetings helped a great deal with the SEC transition.
In terms of this ranking btw it seems to be heavily weighted toward small private schools that will always win on stuff like class size and graduation rates over large public schools. It's just a completely different dynamic that really doesn't have much to do with true quality of education. GPA inflation at those schools is just ridiculous as well. I remember a story of a guy that was a Stanford grad with a 2.9 GPA that tried to get in to a top law school but was rejected. Why? A 2.9 at Stanford put him in the bottom 2% of his class, essentially a "B" is failing. By comparison at A&M the 50th percentile was a 2.5 GPA (this was when I was in school, may have changed since then slightly).
Now that the SEC has 4 AAU schools it should be able to get more members. Georgia seems most likely to be next with GTech as a sponsor as well but Georgia suffers from not being a huge research spend school and not having an on campus Med School. Auburn and Bama are next on deck.
BTW, this is also a big reason why if the SEC expands again they will move heaven and earth to get North Carolina and might even take UVA or Va Tech. UVA and UNC are Top 5 Public schools and they have serious pull in the AAU. Brush it off all you want but AAU membership can mean tens of millions of dollars per year in research spending and there is nothing a University President would want to add to their resume more than having their school attain membership during their tenure. They have their little egg head club meetings that academics love. Loftin mentioned multiple times his relationship with Bernie Manchin from UF at AAU meetings helped a great deal with the SEC transition.
In terms of this ranking btw it seems to be heavily weighted toward small private schools that will always win on stuff like class size and graduation rates over large public schools. It's just a completely different dynamic that really doesn't have much to do with true quality of education. GPA inflation at those schools is just ridiculous as well. I remember a story of a guy that was a Stanford grad with a 2.9 GPA that tried to get in to a top law school but was rejected. Why? A 2.9 at Stanford put him in the bottom 2% of his class, essentially a "B" is failing. By comparison at A&M the 50th percentile was a 2.5 GPA (this was when I was in school, may have changed since then slightly).
Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:21 pm to aggressor
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this is also a big reason why if the SEC expands again they will move heaven and earth to get North Carolina and might even take UVA or Va Tech. UVA and UNC are Top 5
This will never happen. No way we water down the conference like this.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:24 pm to juff
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I'm back in here you fricking queers. Provide some statistics on this top 20? I believe there is already a link in the thread and you aren't in the top 20.
My mistake, we actually dropped to #23 this year. Last year we were #18, the year before #20.
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Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:24 pm to juff
You really do seem to have some issues.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 5:42 pm to RoscoeHarper
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I'm trying to figure out when an A&M poster ever compared A&M to Vandy.
I will compare A&M to vandyland...
A&M is a real school that forces kids to learn on their own, vandy spoon feeds their kids.
A&M does way more research than vandy... vandy is all hat and no cattle.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 6:14 pm to TrueTexan
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I will compare A&M to vandyland... A&M is a real school that forces kids to learn on their own, vandy spoon feeds their kids. A&M does way more research than vandy... vandy is all hat and no cattle.
You mad bro?
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:04 pm to juff
Equivalent Thread
LSU Football - not so great after all - Alabama represents
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All the trash talking you guys do about how great your football team is just that...trash.
Don't go looking for A&M on this list. We don't talk shite about our football. You say how you and Bama are the best schools in the SEC. Wrong.
Bama should not be mentioned in the same breath as LSU.
LSU Football - not so great after all - Alabama represents
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All the trash talking you guys do about how great your football team is just that...trash.
Don't go looking for A&M on this list. We don't talk shite about our football. You say how you and Bama are the best schools in the SEC. Wrong.
Bama should not be mentioned in the same breath as LSU.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:23 pm to Captain Insano
Some high school drop out coon arse from Louisiana that bought an LSU shirt at Wal Mart, while he was shopping for the rest of his wardrobe, talking academic smack is the definition of irony.
LSU fans seem to lash out at others in the world. Must be because God made all coon asses short, with miniature arms and legs... like overgrown midgets.
From the half dozen or so of their women I have banged, I understand God made the men miniature in other areas too.
Good thing LSU can play football. Don't know what else they would have.
LSU fans seem to lash out at others in the world. Must be because God made all coon asses short, with miniature arms and legs... like overgrown midgets.
From the half dozen or so of their women I have banged, I understand God made the men miniature in other areas too.
Good thing LSU can play football. Don't know what else they would have.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:26 pm to Tel U Something Good
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Some high school drop out coon arse from Louisiana that bought an LSU shirt at Wal Mart, while he was shopping for the rest of his wardrobe, talking academic smack is the definition of irony
The definition of irony is an A&M fan saying they banged ANY girl.
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From the half dozen or so of their women I have banged, I understand God made the men miniature in other areas too.
It's not ironic that you mention cocks however.
This post was edited on 11/7/12 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:30 pm to Roger Klarvin
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I'm back in here you fricking queers. Provide some statistics on this top 20? I believe there is already a link in the thread and you aren't in the top 20.
My mistake, we actually dropped to #23 this year. Last year we were #18, the year before #20.
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Oh look, LSU comes in at a very strong #67, just behind my high school.
In Texas, you can use your LSU diploma to park in handicap spaces if you keep it on your dashboard.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:37 pm to juff
Where we're the ranked on the complete rankings at the end? I Idnt see them. Oh and University of Alabama Huntsville at 117 for best in state (didn't see BSC but Samford was lower).
Posted on 11/7/12 at 7:42 pm to PepaSpray
I think it was in the 120's or thereabouts.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 8:22 pm to juff
I saw West Florida in there at 164. Go Argos!
Posted on 11/7/12 at 8:29 pm to reb13
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For a public school A&M is phenomenal academics wise.
It's hard for some of them to understand that.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 8:41 pm to juff
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The definition of irony is an A&M fan saying they banged ANY girl.
Loserana females aren't really girls like in the rest of the country. They are generally quicker to climb in the rack after I met them, and they talk like they have a mouth full of $hit. You know, like the rest of you coon asses.
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It's not ironic that you mention cocks however.
They are called "pee pees" when they are as small as these "girls" were reporting. Same genetic malformity that causes those short carnival like arms and legs your boys have. Sad really.
Posted on 11/7/12 at 8:42 pm to bayou2003
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for a state of 26 million people they only have 2 colleges worth a shite. public colleges.
We are adding to our Tier 1 schools. Texas just added UofH I believe..
Posted on 11/7/12 at 8:51 pm to Sig
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Tier 1 schools
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UofH
Cougar High?
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