re: aTm fans. What's the deal with calling UT the tsips?

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A&M is incredibly competitive to get into. In fact, other than Vanderbilt, it would be much more difficult to get into A&M than any other SEC school for undergraduate studies.

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Incorrect. Your acceptance rate is 63%. Ours is 43%.

Georgia - 59%
Alabama - 44%
MSU - 63% (tie)
Arkansas - 61%

Not saying A&M is a bad school at all, and numbers don't always paint as clear a picture as they seem. However, A&M is definitely not second only to Vanderbilt in the number turned away. The states of Florida and I believe Georgia also have similar rules about college choice and being in the top 10 percent of your high school class.

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Incorrect. Your acceptance rate is 63%. Ours is 43%.

Georgia - 59%
Alabama - 44%
MSU - 63% (tie)
Arkansas - 61%

Not saying A&M is a bad school at all, and numbers don't always paint as clear a picture as they seem. However, A&M is definitely not second only to Vanderbilt in the number turned away. The states of Florida and I believe Georgia also have similar rules about college choice and being in the top 10 percent of your high school class.

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You're a fricking moron. To ever use a metric that concludes Alabama is a better school than Texas A&M is the most laughable thing I have ever heard. You are literally the stupidest person on this board. Not only did you look up multiple acceptance rates... but you saw that A&M's was higher than Alabama's then found it necessary to copy/paste. That really makes sense to you? I assume you're a 16 year old from Alabama that has never been outside of the state to ever suggest the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard in my entire fricking life; that Alabama is a better academic school than Texas A&M.

Haha holy shite, I was responding to a pg. 1 post, but that is hilarious. I remember looking at an Alabama brochure when I was looking at colleges and at the time, there was some kind of automatic acceptance policy of if you had the equivalent of a 2.0 or 2.5 GPA. I thought that must be a mistake, but I swear that's what it said (this would have been around 2004-2005).

That's not to say that Bama doesn't put out some fine, intelligent people, but I will never forget just how unimpressive their requirements were, regardless of what ranking or statistics someone may come up with.

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TrueTexan

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Just out of curiosity, I gather you were in the Corps and a member of the True Texans? Or is that just a S/N?

During war time they were nothing but a bunch of American flag burning, draft card burning pooosays.

Aggies went to war, Texas University students ( that's what the name was before they change it) stayed home and sipped tea.

Thanks for posting this.

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The truth is that Texas students are top 10% students, while Texas A&M students fell just shy of that mark.

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That's actually not the truth.

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Note: All those "hot" girls you see in their longhorn gear are usually from Texas State. In fact, I worked with a girl who was a pom squad member at UT and she was a full-time Texas State student.

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Very true. Our Southern brethren may not be aware of the relative locations of TX State aka SWT and UT. TX State is ~30 min south of Austin and is the Mecca of hot women. Because of their proximity to Austin, and because they are mostly all Longhorn fans who didn't get accepted to UT, students at SWT, which will take anyone with a pulse, frequently do their partying in Austin and many of them make the short pilgrimage to DKR for game day.

I know you guys see pictures of women in UT gear or UT tailgates and think "golly gee, UT women are the hottest evaaar" (and to be honest, A&M's TERRIBLE decision to put the Corps front-and-center at games makes us look completely unnattractive by comparison) but as jaxson posted, you're looking at a lot of SWT/Tx State girls in UT gear. They really are that hot, but they don't go to UT. That may be 6 of one, half a dozen of the other to you, becuase hey, they ARE there for games, and I concede that, but the truth is the truth - they don't go there for school. I live 5 min from the UT campus in central Austin. Trust me, drive down the Drag by the UT campus on a Wednesday mid-day and you'll think you're in a mixture between Pakistan/Beijing/the campgrounds at Bonaroo. There's a lot of really scruffy looking white guys and gals and a whole lot of foreigners. It's not what you think it is from behind your TV set.

The CITY of Austin, on the other hand, is a center for hot women. That's because they move here post-graduation from all over because it's known as a cool place to live. I know stunning girls from Maine and Washington state and all in between. College Station doesn't have that, and the city in of Austin in general will always be UT's advantage on us in recruting. That said, some people prefer a true college town for their college experience over the grittyness of a city with close to a million residents. I did.

The same crop of sorority girls o to A&M as go to UTex. The key difference: A&M girls voted for Romney; UTex girls voted for Obama.