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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is considering UT Austin for engineering - but likely wont get an admit there.

However, Texas A&M seems to be a great choice too.. I have heard good things about their Engineering and Business Program - and also the Bush School of Govt and Public Policy.

Any first hand experience as a OOS at Texas A&M? [/quote]

You should visit. It's a great school for engineering. But Texas A&M is a certain kind of Texas -[b] pretty conservative, very clean cut, very traditional gender roles, very patriotic, very protestant Christian[/b], very into football. It can be [b]a little cultish[/b]. It's not for everyone. But a lot of people do really like it. It has a great professional network too. But Texas A&M is very much a love it or hate it school.  [/quote]

You people need to stop using these things as a pejorative and calling it "cultish"... this is why main-stream Americans outside of your bubble dislike you, you're completely insufferable.[/quote]

+100[/quote]

As someone who called it cultish above, from Texas and also I am VERY CONSERVATIVE.  I wasn't 'using cultish as a derogatory thing.   You've got 100,000 people in the stands singing convoluted cheers, swaying, greeting each other and saying "Howdy", following tons of traditions.  Call it cultish, call it "clique-ish". Call it "lots of inside jokes which they use to establish a huge sense of pride in school and camaraderie."

Maybe you need to chill.[/quote]

+2  I grew up in Texas and both of my best friends went to A&M.  It is cultish, deliberately so.  Kids walk around dressed in pseudo military outfits and salute each other based on rank at every corner.  Students line up to attend Midnight Yell in the middle of the night before every home game.  You're not allowed to sit down during football games.  People on a DC board who don't know anything about the school but want to be oppressed are just glomming onto the word conservative to make themselves a victim of a comment they don't understand.

It's not cultish because it's conservative.  It's both cultish and conservative.  [/quote]

That is the corps of cadets. A&M began as a military school and still has a corps of cadets. It is one of six “senior military colleges,” along with VMI, the Citadel, and VA Tech.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University_Corps_of_Cadets

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I'm aware.  Their outsize presence on campus is part of the cultish environment.[/quote]

They're about 5% of the student body.[/quote]

Yes.  And they walk around campus in uniform and salute each whenever they cross paths.  Students who are not in the Corps can tell their ranks by their boots and they make a big show of enforcing that hierarchy.  They march across campus en masse to stand on the field at home football games.  For 5% of the student body they are bizarrely visible and tied to the concept of the university in a way no other 5% is.  [i]They have an outsize presence on campus.[/i]  Do you really need to keep trying to wikipedia this?[/quote]

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