re: Current enrollment numbers for SEC Schools

Just use google

aTm was warned in 2011, and again in 2014

Now that Powers is out as AAU President, you'll see by 2020

AAU only has to do with research and with regards to research A&M is very highly regarded

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maybe 30% of our physical campus is occupied

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This strikes me as crazy. It's a huge campus already.

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Texas was able to wiggle out of the 10% rule due to the inability to grow their campus as it is in downtown Austin, so they do not see the same phenomenon.

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That is simply not true, and you've already written this twice.

The University of Texas at Austin has received an exemption lowering top 10 percent high school auto admits to top 7 percent.

Plus (if I recall correctly), there is a percentage limit of freshman admits per class that can be top 7 percent because almost (if not all) of the incoming freshmen fell under the auto admit rule, leaving UT with no discretion on admitting those who qualified otherwise.

That's just the state legislature protecting the stature of Texas' highest esteemed public college.

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texashorn
Current enrollment numbers for SEC Schools

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Texas was able to wiggle out of the 10% rule due to the inability to grow their campus as it is in downtown Austin, so they do not see the same phenomenon.


That is simply not true, and you've already written this twice.

The University of Texas at Austin has received an exemption lowering top 10 percent high school auto admits to top 7 percent.

Plus (if I recall correctly), there is a percentage limit of freshman admits per class that can be top 7 percent because almost (if not all) of the incoming freshmen fell under the auto admit rule, leaving UT with no discretion on admitting those who qualified otherwise.

That's just the state legislature protecting the stature of Texas' highest esteemed public college.

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You say tom-ay-to and I say tom-ah-to. At the end of the day, it is two viewpoints of the same thing. Either way, Texas has managed to wiggle out of the state law that passed for all state schools.

With the land situation that Texas-Austin has, it is understandable. However, A&M suffers statistically on admissions because we are forced to automatically accept nearly 50% more students than Texas.

Shouldn't you be at the Grove or something?

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aTm has already been warned, and aTm has turned into a diploma mill

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They're probably just like every non top 50 school in the states (public and private). They've got a handful of degrees that are cake, another handful that you have to work, and another handful that are a nightmare (I know, 3 hands......). I graduated from the University of South Alabama and the Med School, PT school, and CIS school were really tough and competitive. I got a computer engineering degree and my EE classes were a lot easier than my CIS classes.

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I don't know much about Texas, but with a population that large, I think you really need to get rid of that 10% rule.

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A little context for you.

The top-10 percent rule stemmed from a 1996 Fifth Circuit decision, based on a lawsuit at the University of Texas at Austin, to outlaw affirmative action.

Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi public schools were then forbidden from using the practice.

Texas black lawmakers were very worried about minority kids being left out, and proposed the top-10 percent rule to make up for no affirmative action. It passed.

Later, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially overruled that Fifth Circuit decision, and affirmative action was back in play.

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature doesn't have the guts to totally rescind the top-10 percent rule because it would infuriate minority lawmakers.

More proof of A&M embracing their diploma-mill, open admissions status. The aggie president threw the University of Texas under the bus. Aggy has fully embraced academic mediocrity in favor of more state funding (even though it didn't work out like that, they fell behind on per-student funding this year, to the shock of the aggy chancellor). It kind of blew up in their face (so far).

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In the past few years, UT-Austin officials have railed against the policy, saying it overwhelms them with automatically admitted students and restricts the Austin university’s ability to build its study body to its liking. A&M has always received fewer automatic admittees, but the number is growing. School officials say they are fine with that.

“If you are really critical of the 10 Percent Rule, what you are saying is that we don’t want the kids from the [less competitive schools],” said A&M President Michael Young.

Fighting the rule, Young said, sends the message to those schools that “we would prefer to have an admissions process that doesn’t require us to admit you.”

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That's low-brow shite from aggy. I wouldn't expect anything else.

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Should this question even be asked