The dumbest person I ever knew got into vanderbilt and rejected every other school he applied to. So he went to Vanderbilt and failed out after one year.
I still scratch my head how the fuck he got into vanderbilt. The only think I can think is he was a football stud and they took a flyer on him that no other d1 school would.
But this dude was dumber than a rock and had a shit gpa and has spent the last 20ish years working shit jobs because he just never could put together anything resembling an education together. I know he even tried to be an electrician and plumber and couldn't make either of those trade jobs work either.
Incredible athlete, really nice guy, dumber than a box of polished rocks.
He couldn't be an electrician or plumber because he was dumb lmao, sparkies do a lot of math and plumbers have to do a decent amount too. Not to mention if you aren't disciplined enough to even try at school, you'll never learn the techniques for trades
I don't really remember much about the town but Austin is so great. Austin, Athens, Gainesville, Oxford and Madison are probably the best places I've ever spent a football weekend. I'll say my least favorite places with colleges were Columbia, Stony Brook and SLC.
Never applied to Texas, majority of us didn't. Worked out very well. My orange friends continue to be baffled at my salary, 3 of my bosses have been Aggies, my job ATM is to teach longhorn cs grads how to use GitHub.
You realize the 10% auto acceptance is a state of Texas thing, not a UT thing, right? All of the public schools have to follow it. Texas is also down to 5% for auto acceptance while A&M is still at 10%.
Except the cost of attendance and housing is cheaper for A&M, and students from both schools graduate and roughly make the same. College is an investment and A&M is the better investment
Tuition is almost exactly the same for the two schools. Cost of living is obviously cheaper at A&M because one is in the middle of a major city and the other is in a college town. Salaries are likely similar if you go into a STEM program because A&M has a legitimately good engineering school, especially if you want to work in oil and gas. If you want to do finance or business, Texas is clearly the better school.
a 1470 on my SAT rewarded me with $0 in scholarships for a school that's more expensive than UT itself. my high school GPA was nothing to write home about but ffs i had a 1470!!
UTD is actually a pretty decent school on its own rights these days. One of the only ones that doesn’t do the CAP program IIRC. UTA is probably a more realistic option.
Some of the smartest engineers I've met went to UTD. My cousin works I forget for which company in San Francisco, her husband works for Meta, and a number of her classmates met are at places ranging from Apple to Goldman Sachs. Crazy how many smart people I've met there.
Yeah UTD is a really good school from everything I've heard. Their computer science program in particular gets advertised all over DFW and is supposed to be really solid.
growing up in Texas that remark seemed so natural. If you can go to Texas, if not A&M is not bad. but seeing how you phrased it, I guess it's not something broadcasters should say.
They were quoting Taaffe, but half the the people automatically admitted to A&M would not have been automatically admitted to UT. UT is top 5% of the graduating class, A&M is top 10% of the graduating class. So, take that for what you will.
Per state law. Texas fought to keep enrollment down when Rick Perry started his growth of the state colleges. A&M expanded, now pushing 75K students.
Both make sense to me. You want to remain an elite institution? Cap growth and raise requirements. You want to service the massively and rapidly growing state population? Expand programs and enrollment.
Yeah I get it yall let everyone in. But you also don’t get to be as high a revenue generating program like both Texas or A&M without a fair amount of t shirt fans.
It’s a lazy knock. I don’t give a shit if either team has a lot of t shirt fans. It’s lame gate keeping of your fandom.
“ALL fans of MY team are distinguished graduates. Unlike your team, whose fans are a bunch of dumbass high school dropout losers who didn’t even go there!” It’s a dumb implication.
What's frustrating, I think, is that the most obnoxious shit talkers I know all went somewhere else. They throw the rivalry in my face constantly. F**gies, Bonfire jokes and stuff like that. Folks that went to Texas are generally pretty chill about it and talk shit in the correct, fun way.
Academic trash talking is really dumb at the end of the day, especially for two schools as good as A&M and UT. What works for one person may not work for another, and they both excel in many ways.
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And hearing the broadcast say A&M is a bunch of Texas rejects