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re: If your state had to narrow it down to one university...
Posted on 3/22/17 at 6:53 pm to Korin
Posted on 3/22/17 at 6:53 pm to Korin
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That acceptance rate is actually higher than UCF's.
Edit: Is that just College Station or the other schools too like in Corpus Christi, Kingsville, etc?
main campus alone is higher than UCF.
like the Houston deal being taken off the board by Texas, the A&M leaderships move to drive enrollment is a statewide loss.
The motive is ridiculous and embarrassingly short sighted and already failed to meet it's top priority.
In short a few idiots watered down the value of a Texas A&M degree, have returned very little of the growth back back into the University for value purposes and opened up the floodgates for other state universities to successfully appeal for subsidization from the state(PUF funding that sets both UT and A&M apart from most state schools across the country much less Texas).
Take the sports history off the table, A&M is the junior flagship university in the state, this is bad for everyone. Then you have those with family members that went to A&M vs UT.. self included. At a certain point you feel their pain.
That pain will eventually hit home even closer.. it's getting more and more difficult to gain acceptance to UT. Sucks if your grandson would be the first in 5 generations to not attend UT, but at least A&M was a very respectable second option. The guys playing on the checker board in College Station are well on their way to pissing that option away.
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Posted on 3/22/17 at 6:59 pm to texashorn
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I am so glad you wrote this, because the aggy line is that it's a Superfund site from which they'll lose every penny invested.
Standard Aggie, no idea who and what they really are. No real facts support their fantasy so they dream up & repeat any blunder that fits their agenda and repeat it to urban legend level. Sorry fellas, there is such a thing as reality.
Adopted in and placed on third base.. think they hit a triple. Just got picked off third base for not belonging there in the first place.
The "Fredo" if there ever was one.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:01 pm to OldSchoolHorn
there is no one flagship university for a state. flagship just means the main campus of a university system
Texas -Austin is only the flagship for Uni of texas system
i don't think employers view UT as any better than Texas AM and Texas AM probably has better rep for engineering and science.
Texas -Austin is only the flagship for Uni of texas system
i don't think employers view UT as any better than Texas AM and Texas AM probably has better rep for engineering and science.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:08 pm to Tillman
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there is no one flagship university for a state. flagship just means the main campus of a university system
Texas -Austin is only the flagship for Uni of texas system
i don't think employers view UT as any better than Texas AM and Texas AM probably has better rep for engineering and science.
sorry man, wrong across the board there.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:10 pm to OldSchoolHorn
how so?
the two universities are in different university systems. to say one is the flagship makes no sense.
the two universities are in different university systems. to say one is the flagship makes no sense.
This post was edited on 3/22/17 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:12 pm to Korin
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Interestingly, USF has the lowest acceptance rate here.
1. USF: 47.5%
2. UF: 48%
3. UCF: 49%
4. FSU: 56%
UF was 38% this year
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:24 pm to GetCocky11
In what? I cannot squint that hard.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 7:27 pm to lsufball19
You win the internet dumbass. Grats
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:32 pm to Tillman
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how so?
the two universities are in different university systems. to say one is the flagship makes no sense.
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Sec. 10. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIVERSITY; AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT. The legislature shall as soon as practicable establish, organize and provide for the maintenance, support and direction of a University of the first class, to be located by a vote of the people of this State, and styled, "The University of Texas," for the promotion of literature, and the arts and sciences, including an Agricultural, and Mechanical department.
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Sec. 13. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, established by an Act of the Legislature passed April 17th, 1871, located in the county of Brazos, is hereby made, and constituted a Branch of the University of Texas, for instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, and the Natural Sciences connected therewith.
Texas Constitution of 1876
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:34 pm to texashorn
that was 1876. lol
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:39 pm to Tillman
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Florida acceptance rate is lower simply b/c it is the main uni in a heavily populated state. it isn't evidence the university is better
That is not necessarily true. The University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia and North Carolina and Michigan aim to be a more exclusive school, even though we're the main state school.
That conscious decision was made long ago.
The idea was to develop a strong system of "University of Texas, California, etc." schools that did a fine job educating citizens of the state. UT has Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Arlington, medical schools in the three largest cities, etc. etc. etc.
Aggy has decided to put all its resources in being a diploma mill and the A&M system schools can just hub it for all they care.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:39 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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We'd combine Alabama and Auburn and beat the frick out of all of you even more in footbaw and be pretty damned formidable in academics.
Would it be called Alaburn or Aubama?
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:40 pm to Tillman
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that was 1876. lol
So what? When do you think these schools opened?
The Republic of Texas made reference to the University of Texas at Austin as early as 1839. That was just three years after the Alamo, dude.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:41 pm to texashorn
A&M is older than texass. About time you get over it
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:42 pm to texashorn
both Texas am and UT are considered the flagship universities in Texas. Texas AM uses flagship on their own website.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:43 pm to texag7
Aggy was a gleam in Abraham Lincoln's eye when the University of Texas at Austin first took root as a concept.
Old Honest Abe provided federal money to states to set up ag schools so rough-and-tumble farm boys could have somewhere to get some schoolin'.
The University of Texas had to wait a big longer so people who were actually from and who lived in Texas could set up the oil land to support it.
Old Honest Abe provided federal money to states to set up ag schools so rough-and-tumble farm boys could have somewhere to get some schoolin'.
The University of Texas had to wait a big longer so people who were actually from and who lived in Texas could set up the oil land to support it.
This post was edited on 3/22/17 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:45 pm to texashorn
i don't think the students at UVA are better than the ones at VA Tech and the ones at UNC are better than the NC State students. Va Tech and NC State have better STEM reputations.
my point is generally the university of x and the the large land grant universities in the state are the most popular.
so in more populated states, they will be more selective b/c obviously only so many students can get in.
my point is generally the university of x and the the large land grant universities in the state are the most popular.
so in more populated states, they will be more selective b/c obviously only so many students can get in.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:47 pm to Tillman
That flagship reference is more in line with being a flagship of a system and conflating "tier one" with "flagship."
"Tier one" is a state legislature designation that also applies to (private) Rice University.
"Tier one" is a state legislature designation that also applies to (private) Rice University.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:50 pm to Tillman
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my point is generally the university of x and the the large land grant universities in the state are the most popular.
so in more populated states, they will be more selective b/c obviously only so many students can get in.
Wait. What have you been smoking tonight? A&M has a 66 percent acceptance rate, UT Austin is 39 percent and Florida is 38 percent. Michigan, Virginia, NC are lower.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:52 pm to texashorn
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Wait. What have you been smoking tonight? A&M has a 66 percent acceptance rate, UT Austin is 39 percent and Florida is 38 percent. Michigan, Virginia, NC are lower.
yes but that is also including the OOS applications. the schools you listed get a lot of hype b/c kids like their locations.
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