Texas tonight--proof that the college system is broken

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. It ucks. UCLA gets 120k apps, NYU and Northeastern get 100k. Other colleges can manage, but not Texas?

?? If Harvard got a 40k increase to 100k apps, they’d also have admissions issues. UT had has a consistent steady rise from 40-70k apps over a long term period. They had 3x the increase in apps as years prior. I get your emotional you didn’t get your admission decision, but this is stupid.

Are you saying they went from 70 to 140k in a year?

no, it was not that big a bump. this is a failure to hire more $20/hour readers.

it was a 20K bump

I think Tennessee has seen bigger jumps and done fine/

If it was up to me, I would have delayed intl decisions and gotten the domestic apps done.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You don't have to apply or matriculate there. Its not like it will get any better given the priorities for education in Texas among the political leadership

Yeah, education in TX is so lousy its flagship school gets 92,000 applications. Meanwhile the SUNY schools continue to attract almost no one from outside NYS.

Outside of UT Austin, not many apply from outside TX. SUNY schools are good, but located in more rural areas/smaller areas. Of course kids don't apply to an OOS school that is remote/hard to get to, outside of the flagships (For SUNY the closest thing to a Flagship would be Binghamton).

Columbia, SC and Tallahassee and Clemson and Knoxville and Athens, GA etc. are not exactly huge metropoles yet are attracting an increasingly diverse and large applicant pool, particularly among the OOS population. Stony Brook? Binghamton? LOL. Yeah, not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to apply or matriculate there. Its not like it will get any better given the priorities for education in Texas among the political leadership

Yeah, education in TX is so lousy its flagship school gets 92,000 applications. Meanwhile the SUNY schools continue to attract almost no one from outside NYS.

Outside of UT Austin, not many apply from outside TX. SUNY schools are good, but located in more rural areas/smaller areas. Of course kids don't apply to an OOS school that is remote/hard to get to, outside of the flagships (For SUNY the closest thing to a Flagship would be Binghamton).

Columbia, SC and Tallahassee and Clemson and Knoxville and Athens, GA etc. are not exactly huge metropoles yet are attracting an increasingly diverse and large applicant pool, particularly among the OOS population. Stony Brook? Binghamton? LOL. Yeah, not so much.

Truth! For how LOUSY and INFERIOR those backwards southern schools are, the students from INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR states like New York and New Jersey and Maryland sure seem to flock to them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

You are completely full of shit. This has nothing to do with politics, but almost nobody from my kid's upper NW DC school applied to Texas...nor did any of their friends at Walls, JR, Sidwell and GDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

You are completely full of shit. This has nothing to do with politics, but almost nobody from my kid's upper NW DC school applied to Texas...nor did any of their friends at Walls, JR, Sidwell and GDS.

Jackson Reed sent at least 3 kids to Texas last year. That's just the ones that matriculated.

[Anonymous]

Texas has been Californiad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

Connecticut too -- the number of kids in my son's class (a Fairfield Co public HS) who applied would earn me two large pizzas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

You are completely full of shit. This has nothing to do with politics, but almost nobody from my kid's upper NW DC school applied to Texas...nor did any of their friends at Walls, JR, Sidwell and GDS.

Probably because the odds for OOS acceptance to Texas-Austin are pretty bleak. It's usually the CS and engineering kids that take their shot at Texas. And Sidwell, GDS and other privates don't produce a lot of future engineers or CS majors. But those private school students are definitely applying to Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, UVA, Emory and other southern schools. The people that refuse to study south of the Mason Dixon line because of politics are a very small minority. Applications to southern schools - including Texas - have exploded in recent years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as they are admitting the very top students from Texas, I think they can do whatever they like. If you live in another state, you should already know that it is very hard to get into Texas-Austin.

Aren't the admissions decisions for Texas kids delayed too though? Imagine being a Texas kid who applied mostly to Texas schools, now in limbo and wondering how many more schools to apply to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. It ucks. UCLA gets 120k apps, NYU and Northeastern get 100k. Other colleges can manage, but not Texas?

?? If Harvard got a 40k increase to 100k apps, they’d also have admissions issues. UT had has a consistent steady rise from 40-70k apps over a long term period. They had 3x the increase in apps as years prior. I get your emotional you didn’t get your admission decision, but this is stupid.

Are you saying they went from 70 to 140k in a year?

No one said that. You might be mathematically challenged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As long as they are admitting the very top students from Texas, I think they can do whatever they like. If you live in another state, you should already know that it is very hard to get into Texas-Austin.

Aren't the admissions decisions for Texas kids delayed too though? Imagine being a Texas kid who applied mostly to Texas schools, now in limbo and wondering how many more schools to apply to.

Are you from Texas? It’s really easy to get into other Texas schools. Most UT students could count A&M as a safety, and if they like college towns but are more progressive Texas state is a really nice school too that you can practically walk into. Texan colleges are not hard to get into other than UT.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't put this just on Texas - the common app has broken the system so that kids apply to routinely 15-20 schools. If they had a limit of 10 which is completely reasonable, then kids would only apply to the ones they wanted to. At my kids high school, the number of kids applying to Wisconsin, Boulder, Michigan, Washington is over 50 kids - sometimes as high as 80. Most of those numbers have doubled in the past few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that universities in places like Texas were going to DIE?!!!!!! That no female EVER would apply to somewhere in that regressive hellhole?

Well my DD and all of her friends would never apply there. Same for my DS and his friends (male or female), because well, they don't want to live in a regressive state where it's challenging to get medical care you or your loved ones want.

Where the heck do you live? I live in DC and my teens and friends (a mix of private and public juniors and seniors) from upper NW would love to live in Austin. They're not making college decisions based on abortion care. I mean, really?

I think pp's attitude is a big part of the reason why schools like UT (and Florida, and South Carolina, and so on) are exploding in popularity. Normal people don't think like that. They want to stay away from that mindset.

YUP.
DC liberals: "Texas is bad. BAD i tell you!!!!!."
Their kids: "Mom, you're nuts"

If I had a dollar for every NW DC kid I PERSONALLY know who applied to Texas I could buy myself a Chipotle burrito for lunch today.

Clearly, you have bad taste.