Texas IS #32

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Am dodging nothing, and am not drinking Aggie koolaid either.

Sorry, but Texas is way over-saturated with lawyers, and everybody knows it.

Pay gap is self-reported bachelor’s level degrees, not the postgrads. Not much of an indicator unless it is for the Ivy League level schools.

I have observed Sharp’s career for decades and am certainly qualified as any to have an opinion of his management. Why is he lowering the admission standards? He should be maintaining existing admissions and improving the system’s other schools as fall-back alternatives for less qualified students. That has my family’s A&M grads concerned that he is devaluing their degrees. No need to lower it to the community college level, which is where the place is trending.

But I would also like to hear the reasons why Sharp went to the legislature to ask for $50 million extra for operating expenses for A&M. Especially after they wasted $70+ million on the unneeded law school purchase.

You are moving the goalposts, a clear sign that your earlier claims were mostly bogus or misdirected.

You've dropped the, "A&M is technically part of UT" claim because you now know, or at least should, that your claim was false.

Your earlier claim was that A&M opened a net new law school. It didn't. Texas having too many lawyers, FWIIW TX is in the middle of the states so far as the rate of practicing lawyers per population, is a different matter.

The self-reported mid-career pay gap for those with undergraduate degrees absolutely matters. I'm guessing you just don't understand statistical data well. What do the Ivies have to do with any of this?

I'm really not sure what you are talking about vis a vis A&M lowering admission standards? A&M is decreasing its automatic admissions from the Top-25% of high school grads to the Top-10% in 2021.

Your claim that A&M is trending towards community college level academics is full-on PROOF you simply do not know what you are talking about.....probably because you are blinded by purely emotional bias.

Sharpe asked for more money because the state was funding UT at roughly $860 more pre student. It's that simple. And FWIIW A&M got most of that is asked for.

For the record I'm not anti-UT in any way. My son and his wife both have UT medical degrees. By any standard UT is one of the country's most impressive universities.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Pickens is one of my heros

I mean no doubt he has been very financially successful and a legendary corporate raider....

But still, ew......What is it that makes him your hero? The 4 or 5 failed marriages, or him narcissisticly stealing a slab off someones driveway because he had signed it as a child?

Hes a fake conservative who thinks that being rich means he can violate other people's property rights.

And lets not forget his dishonestly in 2004 when he funded the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group that lied about John Kerry's war record? I mean I don't even like Kerry and that was dirty.

I mean sure hes donated a lot of money just like alot of wealthy people do when they have more money than they know what to do with.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by EDS_

You are moving the goalposts, a clear sign that your earlier claims were mostly bogus or misdirected.

You've dropped the, "A&M is technically part of UT" claim because you now know, or at least should, that your claim was false.

Your earlier claim was that A&M opened a net new law school. It didn't. Texas having too many lawyers, FWIIW TX is in the middle of the states so far as the rate of practicing lawyers per population, is a different matter.

The self-reported mid-career pay gap for those with undergraduate degrees absolutely matters. I'm guessing you just don't understand statistical data well. What do the Ivies have to do with any of this?

I'm really not sure what you are talking about vis a vis A&M lowering admission standards? A&M is decreasing its automatic admissions from the Top-25% of high school grads to the Top-10% in 2021.

Your claim that A&M is trending towards community college level academics is full-on PROOF you simply do not know what you are talking about.....probably because you are blinded by purely emotional bias.

Sharpe asked for more money because the state was funding UT at roughly $860 more pre student. It's that simple. And FWIIW A&M got most of that is asked for.

For the record I'm not anti-UT in any way. My son and his wife both have UT medical degrees. By any standard UT is one of the country's most impressive universities.

UT funds more per student because they were smart enough to limit enrollment to more qualified students to hold campus population numbers down. As opposed to Sharp’s policy of opening acceptance rates to lower qualified kids just to boost their campus population numbers so they could make the dubious claim of “largest school in Texas”. (It still isn’t - see Houston CC). Those lesser qualified students should be enrolling in the colleges of the A&M system. The acceptance rate at CS is almost 70%, higher than Tech, while UT is less than 40% (with top 6%requirement).
Try comparing testing scores required for admission too. A&M’s standards are lower.

It is a stupid policy that is lowering A&M to the community college level. That is a complaint made by the Aggie grads in my family who don’t drink the Koolaid, not me. Rick Perry was pushing that policy for both A&M and Ut, but thankfully Bill Powers resisted that nonsense and kept Texas academic standards from being watered down.

And the superfluous law school has a cumulative rank of #122 in the country, well below Texas Tech’s, Arkansas, & Mississippi. As I said, a waste of $71,000,000 of taxpayer money. Then Sharp has the gall to beg the lege fir $50,000,000 to make up for his self-induced shortfall. That is my complaint about the poor leadership.