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re: aTm fans. What's the deal with calling UT the tsips?
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:30 pm to TxTiger82
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:30 pm to TxTiger82
t-sips suck are are liberals who don't like hard work...
And no we do still have legacy admissions (they are just not automatic anymore), along with Blinn Team, and easy enrollment if you are willing to join the corps.
A&M is a great school but we are not that hard to get into... our acceptance rate is around 65%. Thats good but not great.
tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%.
We need to get down to that rate.
And no we do still have legacy admissions (they are just not automatic anymore), along with Blinn Team, and easy enrollment if you are willing to join the corps.
A&M is a great school but we are not that hard to get into... our acceptance rate is around 65%. Thats good but not great.
tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%.
We need to get down to that rate.
This post was edited on 11/9/12 at 2:37 pm
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Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:31 pm to TxTiger82
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TxTiger82
Aside from locale and traditions, really not much difference between A&M and UT anymore... same student populations, same student background, same grades, similar academic standing... my best friend's dad, (RIP, great guy) who was the biggest Texas fan ever, pointed it out years ago - he said 'it's kind of sad, you know, I hate A&M but I loved that it was different than us and that's what made the rivalry great - completely different cultures, traditions, academic focuses - now the two schools are pretty much the same just trying really hard to pretend they are different. He was right in many ways.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:32 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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Interesting enough is the fact that around the time I graduated (1999-2000 was my senior year), we were rated higher in USNWR (44th) by a wide margin. You can imagine the panic that ensued when that happened.
They were perfectly fine viewing us as the engineering school in the state when law/medicine/business were still elite majors. Then computers and the internet made engineering vastly more lucrative. O well. Sucks to suck.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:32 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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I graduated A&M in 2000.
Ah gotcha.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:33 pm to TxTiger82
my oldest daughter just graduated A&M and the youngest just got accepted. The current rules are top 10% automatic entry to A&M, no legacies. UT is now top 8% are automatic, not because they have higher standards so much, just that both schools are only able to handle so many automatic entries with a state of over 20 million.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:36 pm to TxTiger82
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Oh ok. So where are the 11-15%ers going now? Tech? LSU? OU?
11-15%ers? Both UT and A&M. Those percentiles get in when they have great applications in other ways.
Now the 20-50%? TECH. Overwhelmingly.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:36 pm to mizzoukills
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I like tea. In fact, I'm drinking caffeine free Pineapple Chamomile at this moment....
Very gay.
Fixed for you.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:38 pm to TeLeFaWx
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They were perfectly fine viewing us as the engineering school in the state when law/medicine/business were still elite majors. Then computers and the internet made engineering vastly more lucrative. O well. Sucks to suck.
and oil & gas...
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:39 pm to Street Fighter
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I like tea. In fact, I'm drinking caffeine free Pineapple Chamomile at this moment.... Very gay.
Perhaps you're right. I'd rather drink pineapple chamomile than this shite...
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:41 pm to RicksFormula
To the detriment of its rankings, going forward, A&M is going to be allowed to grow larger (it already is) as a student body that UT, thus we'll be less selective. UT is city-locked. They're having to buy up hamburger joints (Players, RIP)and gas stations in order to build new buildings. A&M sits on a gagillion acres of relatively worthless, fallow land and can easily build dorms and classrooms as far out as it wants.
This post was edited on 11/9/12 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:42 pm to ColoradoAg03
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and oil & gas...
Yeah definitely, and how many teasips would work out in the field? That's like a gump doing an honest days work. Laughable.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:44 pm to TrueTexan
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tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%. We need to get down to that rate.
Why?
I've never understood this mindset.
Why is it considered better to accept a low percentage and graduate a high percentage than accept a high percentage and graduate a low percentage?
Why not just let anyone in and if they can cut it, fine. If they can't, they get out.
After all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:44 pm to Cooter Davenport
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A&M sits on a gagillion acres of relatively worthless, fallow land and can easily build dorms and classrooms as far out as it wants.
Yeah, Texas has the "40 acres," and we have just over 5,200 acres. That having been said, most of what's popping up around campus these days is research infrastructure as per Vision 2020.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:47 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Yeah definitely, and how many teasips would work out in the field? That's like a gump doing an honest days work. Laughable.
I was referring to the O&G white collar jobs (geosciences and engineering), but yes, you are also correct about working in the field
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:50 pm to mizzoukills
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Perhaps you're right. I'd rather drink pineapple chamomile than this shite...
Way to set that up.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 2:52 pm to juff
Anyone can be an engineer these days. The guy working the mop is a maintenance engineer for shite's sake.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 3:04 pm to Cooter Davenport
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Also, the legacy admissions preference that used to be in place at A&M was ended about a decade ago.
Luckily not back when I applied
*Though I would have likely gotten in anyway since I wasn't trying to get into the business or engineering schools.
This post was edited on 11/9/12 at 3:05 pm
Posted on 11/9/12 at 3:07 pm to TrueTexan
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t-sips suck are are liberals who don't like hard work...
And no we do still have legacy admissions (they are just not automatic anymore), along with Blinn Team, and easy enrollment if you are willing to join the corps.
A&M is a great school but we are not that hard to get into... our acceptance rate is around 65%. Thats good but not great.
tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%.
We need to get down to that rate.
I'm now convinced you are either a troll or an idiot or both.
No, we do not have legacy admissions anymore. I don't know how else to say it.
Acceptance rate is a dumb metric to go by. Case in point: Alabama A&M has a 47% acceptance rate. The sips are at 47%.
Posted on 11/9/12 at 3:22 pm to TrueTexan
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A&M is a great school but we are not that hard to get into... our acceptance rate is around 65%. Thats good but not great.
tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%.
We need to get down to that rate.
FWIW, Vandy runs below 20% (16% last year)...
This post was edited on 11/9/12 at 3:24 pm
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