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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the South. And not everywhere in the South. Maybe Vegas/Nevada[/quote]

Beauty pageants big in Texas. So maybe UT-Austin?[/quote]

Beauty pageants are big in most if Texas but Austin is very different politically &, in many ways, culturally, from most of the rest of the state. A lot of Texans -- & a lot of  peoole living in Austin -- would be very happy if the state were to firce (or allow,depending on one's point of view) Austin to secede from the rest if the state. In the minds of many Texans, the only good reason why this hasn't yet happened (or, at the very least, why the Texas state capital hasn't been changed to a someplace more representative of "the real Texas")  is that nobody has  quite figured out how to move the historic, Texas-sized capital building to another, more worthy city.

All this is to say that, if the people in charge of admissions at UT-Austin are anything like the majority of people living in Austin, the likelihood that winning pageant titles will significantly improve a kid's admissions chances is probably not much higher there than it would be at UC-Berkeley.

If, on the other hand, OP's DD were to apply to, say, SMU, Baylor, or Texas A & M, then, yes, the probability of her pageant titles giving her a significant leg up in the admissions process would quite likely be much greater than it would be were she to apply to the vast majority of schools outside of Texas. [/quote]

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