re: Student Acceptance Rate (SEC schools)

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Looks like 64% of people have a chance to do that at your school

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Acceptance rate is very much a strategic choice for certain state schools. A&M's current acceptance rate is most definitely by design for better or for worse. John Sharp will tell you that Texas is growing and therefore A&M needs to accommodate more students period end of sentence.

I personally think for worse, and PUF and other endowment funds should be spent on building out regional campuses rather than trying to gate up or blow out flagship campuses.

A&M and Texas were essentially identical in most undergraduate rankings in the 90s, and then the schools went separate ways.

I remember this article from my graduation year. It is a shame all that momentum was knee capped.

Texas A&M is the best public school in the State of Texas

And I find all these indicators to be misleading anyway. Both flagship schools are massively oversubscribed for certain centers of excellence (business, engineering, etc) and then have less compelling alternative majors.

Both schools have very low bar backdoor CAP admission steps that make regular admission kind of a useless statistic.