people in texas
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IF memory serves me correctly from my TX cousins..... UT Austin is plain old ut and they do have a medical center on or very near campus.
Everyone else is UTEP and UTSA etc
Everyone else is UTEP and UTSA etc
but are they connected in some way? as opposed to a&m or baylor? I never see a ut-a&m or ut-baylor
Ya, so the only med school in UT's system used to be UT Medical Branch at Galveston. El Paso was maybe originally for mining and Ag(?). Now, other locations offer similar studies. UT is actually UT at Austin.
Sorry for the late response. There are several satellite uterus campuses. A&M is completely separate as is Baylor.
I thought you were going to be questioning why we got kicked out because of unmc in Omaha and not Lincoln which to me is total BS because the same board of regents is in charge
that's why I threw in the medical question, rumor I heard is either a big shot ut or michigan guy wanted to tank our aau. but mostly I was wondering what all these colleges with ut in front of them were about. never paid much attention but watching 365 on you tube they talk about almost every smaller college under the sun.
because if you take from the aac for big 12 teams then the aac has to get teams from other conferences. and on and on and on. like now north texas is going to the aac and some others..really ut and oklahoma going to the sec has brought alot of sunshine to people in colleges moving up a conference.
everybody brings joy, some when the come, some when they leave.....lol
my favorite new big 12 team, houston, recruiting hotbed and #4 or #5 tv market in the US...I always wondered why they were left out of the big 12......it's not like they got the death penalty...and I remember them putting up serious passing numbers in the 80's.
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They took Baylor instead. It was political in TX.
I don't think TX voted against us on the aau situation but I could be mistaken
Funny story. UT's medical school has been in Galveston for over 100 years. About a decade ago, during a trip to Stanford, UT's President Powers got his little feelings hurt because the Stanford president said: "like all top research universities, we have a medical school on campus." At which point Powers started the ball rolling to demolish a large area south of campus, including the current basketball arena (Erwin Center or "giant bunt cake"), to build a new hospital and medical school. Ten years and half a billion dollars later, the first class graduated last year. Naturally, the real medical school in Galveston was not happy about it, especially since the campus was trying to rebuild after a hurricane.
Purely my opinion, the university of houston suffers from perception, they are not a "destination" school in texas. People want to go to the UTAustin, A&M, or one of the costly private schools (ie baylor, rice, smu, etc). Houston is considered a commuter school by many, and doesn't get the alum donations or public benefits of oil like uta.
This is how people identify themselves in texas. "I'm an aggie" versus "I went to school in houston".
at 3:35 in this video, he (tony) make it sound like houston is doing/going to do well..the guy has good info
I asked him in a chat one day, if smu will do well with NIL...he said yes, they were just 40 years ahead of schedule, lol
I wish houston and smu would become aau....and in the big..talk about texas recruiting, dallas & houston...
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UT is almost impossible to get into. I thought UTSA was kind of the wait list to get into UT. You go to UTSA then if a spot opens at UT you transfer there
The state of Texas has what is referred to as the "10% Rule" where high school students are automatically accepted to the state's universities if they finish in the top 10% of their graduating class. There are nearly 400,000 graduating seniors every year, which means the top 10% would be 40,000 students. UT is the most prestigious state university, and has incredibly cheap tuition for in-state students, so there is no way it can hold that many incoming freshmen. Furthermore, they could not accept any out-of-state or international students, regardless of merit, or parents' alumni status. So in effect it is the "6% Rule" for UT, because they just don't have the space.
The crazy thing is that there are kids who graduate with high GPA's and SAT/ACT scores who are accepted to top private schools but not UT, if they went to a very competitive high school.
Since 2019, t is actually down to the top 6%. UT would do away with it if they could, because they would get a bunch more out of state kids. But the lawmakers in the inner cities and Hispanic communities love it because it gives the students in their communities a chance at getting an education at UT or A&M.
The University of Texas system is actually led by former Nebraska president James Milliken. It is set up similarly to all other state systems.
Yes, J.B., a former higher education leader at Nebraska, then to the New York System, then brought to the UT system. A great guy, solid Nebraskan, now a solid UT guy. Nothing wrong with that. He does what he does best which is to lead great educational institutions. All of us need to support our universities, not just football, because there are so many benefits in having a great university or universities in our states.
National Review ( a conservative magazine, (I also read the progressive ones as well); has an excellent article in their current issue about Texas (front cover story). When I first saw the title, I thought oh now, not another one
of "those".....It is an interesting, enjoyable, informative and well written description about this diverse state.
For those interested, I highly recommend it.
of "those".....It is an interesting, enjoyable, informative and well written description about this diverse state.
For those interested, I highly recommend it.
Yeah I think California and other big states are pretty similar. Met a lot of kids from California in my UNL days that couldn't get accepted at the California schools.
Admissions policy to UTAustin is set by law. 75% from top 6%, 25% uta gets to choose.
If you're not in the top 6% of your graduating class, a perspective student will be competing for one of roughly 2500 slots. Those at large slots are not necessarily selected based on test scores and academic results.
Isn't A&M very similar? I know from my time in Houston a lot of kids go to Blinn CC which then somehow makes it easier to get into A&M at a later date for those that want to be Aggies.
I don't know about a&m. Uta was in the news not long ago for a reverse discrimination lawsuit, so I've read a little about uta admissions.