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Anonymous wrote:Texas A&M - "like VT in terms of ROTC ( just bigger and louder)."

Love the marching band. Better than Ohio State's.

Now wait a minute. I’m a diehard MB&JROTC Mom, love the Aggie Band and Cadet Corps….but I think you’d get some real brass blow back by saying they’re “better than” OSU’s TBDBITL. Completely different style and there are so few traditional drill teams (most are of the “show variety”) that they almost have no competition against which to truly compare them.

As for TAMU, our DC is accepted (non-engineering) but we’d be hard pressed to make the finances work. DC was hoping for merit money that did not pan out. Shame. The 12th Man vibe was right up DC’s alley and was likely the Dream School even if it was a long shot and a long way away.

Congrats to those who realistically have it as an option.

Zero chance they are better than Ohio State. But more concerning is the academic censorship mentioned in a prior post. Banning Plato should be a non-starter for students of any political affiliation. Its absolutely insane what is happening at TAMU.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/tamu-plato-race-gender.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Anonymous wrote:I once heard a female who had visited the campus for the first time describe it as "a place where men still act like men."

So why do they get to be men, and she has to be a "female," not a woman? Is this a place where men refer to women as females?

I don't understand either one of your questions. Women are females and females are women. If you're asking if TAMU is a place that by and large believes in two genders, the answer is yes.

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Aren’t there like 4376 different sexes? None of which Katanji Brown Jackson can explain?

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Anonymous wrote:I once heard a female who had visited the campus for the first time describe it as "a place where men still act like men."

So why do they get to be men, and she has to be a "female," not a woman? Is this a place where men refer to women as females?

I don't understand either one of your questions. Women are females and females are women. If you're asking if TAMU is a place that by and large believes in two genders, the answer is yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Texas A&M - "like VT in terms of ROTC ( just bigger and louder)."

Love the marching band. Better than Ohio State's.

Now wait a minute. I’m a diehard MB&JROTC Mom, love the Aggie Band and Cadet Corps….but I think you’d get some real brass blow back by saying they’re “better than” OSU’s TBDBITL. Completely different style and there are so few traditional drill teams (most are of the “show variety”) that they almost have no competition against which to truly compare them.

As for TAMU, our DC is accepted (non-engineering) but we’d be hard pressed to make the finances work. DC was hoping for merit money that did not pan out. Shame. The 12th Man vibe was right up DC’s alley and was likely the Dream School even if it was a long shot and a long way away.

Congrats to those who realistically have it as an option.

Anonymous wrote:Texas A&M - "like VT in terms of ROTC ( just bigger and louder)."

Love the marching band. Better than Ohio State's.

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Anonymous wrote:I once heard a female who had visited the campus for the first time describe it as "a place where men still act like men."

So why do they get to be men, and she has to be a "female," not a woman? Is this a place where men refer to women as females?

I don't understand either one of your questions. Women are females and females are women. If you're asking if TAMU is a place that by and large believes in two genders, the answer is yes.

Anonymous wrote:Texas A&M - "like VT in terms of ROTC ( just bigger and louder)."

+1. We toured campus twice in three years because both my kids were admitted to their College of Engineering. The cadet vibe is certainly a notable part of the campus. Cadets greeting one another loudly when they cross path, buildings with ROTC history are aplenty, etc.

One negative about Texas A&M Engineering is the need to go through the Entry-To-A-Major (ETAM) process. With this process, students are not guaranteed their first-choice majors without achieving sufficiently high GPAs in their first year. This inevitably scares away some really good students who want nothing but their preferred majors. The school recognizes this issue and starting this year, allows NMSFs to bypass the process and be admitted directly to their preferred majors.

Anonymous wrote:Take a look at the recent Atlantic article on what is happening there.

I think Texas Monthly, too

Not a place for students who respect LGBTQ people

Anonymous wrote:I once heard a female who had visited the campus for the first time describe it as "a place where men still act like men."

So why do they get to be men, and she has to be a "female," not a woman? Is this a place where men refer to women as females?

I once heard a female who had visited the campus for the first time describe it as "a place where men still act like men."

Take a look at the recent Atlantic article on what is happening there.

Anonymous wrote:Very good school academically and great alumni network. Underrated outside of Texas. Very conservative. College Station is the middle of nowhere. Aggies are weird and kind of cultish with their traditions.

Agree - its in the middle of nowhere and very conservative. Its a big school so I am sure liberal kids cans till find their crowd but my child (who is somewhere in the middle) does not want to even consider it

Very good school academically and great alumni network. Underrated outside of Texas. Very conservative. College Station is the middle of nowhere. Aggies are weird and kind of cultish with their traditions.

Texas A&M - "like VT in terms of ROTC ( just bigger and louder)."

Your /your kid's recent experience with Texas A&M? Any families with kids at Texas A&M Engineering?