re: Nobody can get into Texas or Vanderbilt, but what the next hardest school to get into?

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Just finish in the top 10% of your massive high school in any dump in Texas and you’re in.

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Top 5% (agggie is 10%) gets you in to Liberal Arts. If you want to get into other majors, like Business & Engineering & Computer Science (all top 10 US News programs) it is a bloodbath.

UF is an excellent and highly selective institution, but when it comes to the most desired (and lucrative) majors, it is well behind Texas (as is Vandy).

My son didn't get into Texas, but he got into Vanderbilt. He turned down Arkansas right away even though it was 100% paid for. He decided between Mizzou and Texas A&M. With quite a few venture capitalists setting up in the areas between Dallas, Austin, and Houston, I thought Texas A&M might be the best option of all the schools. It has room to grow whereas University of Texas does not and it already has the companies hiring from there that have come out of California as well as the traditional NASA and oil companies.

As a sooner alumnus, A&M is not in the same league or caliber as Texas.

For the 2024-2025 college application cycle, UT Austin’s acceptance rate is 26.6%,

UT Austin’s out-of-state acceptance rate is 10%,

Top-Tier Majors: Admission for top-tier programs like Computer Science, Engineering, and Business is even more restricted for non-residents, sometimes falling as low as 2-8%.

UT Austin’s transfer acceptance rate is 22.5%.

UT Austin announced that students will need to be in the top 5%, compared to the 6% the previous year.

For Fall 2025, the University of Texas at Austin set a record-high undergraduate enrollment of 44,314 students. This marks an increase from the Fall 2024 undergraduate population of 43,165. Total enrollment, including graduate students, reached 55,000

The reality is all the rankings are directional and the school rankings are actually just indicative of tiers from a prestige and hiring standpoint.

For business if you aren’t tier 1 historically you weren’t working at a prime firm on Wall Street for example but it didn’t matter if your school was 1st or 5th, those firms either recruited at your school or they didn’t.

But arguing whether Michigan or Texas or Vandy is a better school comes down to where you want to work and what degree you want because nationally most recruiters see them as roughly equivalent as a brand.

There is no way I would get into UF now when I was younger if they had the standards of today, or my mother or my sister prob....it has gotten very hard recently. Yet somehow..still a ton of hot blondes when I cut through campus.

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Mississippi State University: ~70%–78%
University of Missouri: ~78%–79%
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss): ~96%–97%

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Not last!

HAIL STATE

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In the future, universities all across the country will close.

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GI Bill got lots of Mericans a job and an education

Now kids have cell phones and no job or education.

Even the birth rates among poor/"EBT" women has drastically declined. Plan B has been around now for 15 years. Interesting correlation in those statistics.