State of Texas requirements for grad school

[yorker]

Originally Posted by doctorjef

Football is really nothing to do with serious post-graduate study. So, seems yorker didn't get accepted to the state's premier Univeristy of Texas at Austin, but instead took a consolation "prize" at Texas Tech. Sorry, but in general Tech just doesn't have academic cache. You see, it's really noit about football. At least not for serious people.

While it is true that I would have liked to go to University of Texas at Austin, I didn't really settle with Texas Tech. I based my decision not on football (i'm a bigger fan of hockey than football) but on how the graduate program would fit my learning style. It was a battle between Tech, University of Oklahoma and a school here in New York State. As said, I wanted to go out-of-state to be able to show my adaptability and variability in my learning so it was a battle between OU and Tech and I am scared to death of tornadoes and I heard Oklahoma has a lot of them so I chose Texas Tech.

[Mr. Solis]

I think UT is just a more popular school, hence, more competition to get in.

And I personally thought Rice & SMU were considered the premier colleges here in Texas. I know for a fact Rice has way more top 10%'s going there, but the party life is not as GREAT as in Austin.

Yorker, Texas is very big, there are many many many kinds of people who live here. Depends on what area you live in. Lubbock is rather isolated, and more country than city(like DFW, Houston, SA, Austin). You will see many cowboy boots, cows, cowboy hats, chewing tobacco, and women who like to wear Wrangler jeans(very nice if I do say so myself). And probably many Country & Western dance halls in Lubbock. But rock n roll will never die, not even in Lubbock. Wish I was going to grad school. I am attending UTPA right now, along with my wife. Have you heard of it? We have several Masters to choose from, and a couple PHD's. But my school is about 85% Hispanic, and around 20,000 students. And even though my school is in Texas, and Tech is in Texas, they are worlds apart.

[Mr. Solis]

Originally Posted by WillysB

Well, he got the part about the hoes down right.

I knew someone would catch that. I'm sorry to say, I do keep my hoe down, not too far though.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by Mr. Solis

I think UT is just a more popular school, hence, more competition to get in.

And I personally thought Rice & SMU were considered the premier colleges here in Texas. I know for a fact Rice has way more top 10%'s going there, but the party life is not as GREAT as in Austin.

Yorker, Texas is very big, there are many many many kinds of people who live here. Depends on what area you live in. Lubbock is rather isolated, and more country than city(like DFW, Houston, SA, Austin). You will see many cowboy boots, cows, cowboy hats, chewing tobacco, and women who like to wear Wrangler jeans(very nice if I do say so myself). And probably many Country & Western dance halls in Lubbock. But rock n roll will never die, not even in Lubbock. Wish I was going to grad school. I am attending UTPA right now, along with my wife. Have you heard of it? We have several Masters to choose from, and a couple PHD's. But my school is about 85% Hispanic, and around 20,000 students. And even though my school is in Texas, and Tech is in Texas, they are worlds apart.

I'm sorry, but I just have to say you don't know anything about Lubbock. There are no country or Western dance halls here. It is true that you will probably see more of the stereotypes here than in the bigger cities, but they're still rarities even here. Most of the students here are from the suburbs of Dallas and Houston. Lubbock does not get very many concerts, but it does get well-known bands every few weeks. I know it sounds like I'm being a Lubbock booster, but I'm really just correcting some people's bizarre statements about Lubbock.

[Mr. Solis]

No country dance places in Lubbock. What do you just stay on campus? Lubbock is a country town, and very proud of their country dancing. Now the students who come in from other towns, such as the big city suburbs, they may not know how real Lubbock people live, and they probably dont care either. They're just there to get their important degrees for their big city lives, then they go back to their hip hop areas.

Thats like saying there is no cows around Lubbock, or no Skoal, or no Wranglers, or no pick ups, or no Chicken Fried Steaks, no country dancin places........lmao

[doctorjef]

Mr Solis -- you don't know Lubbock. Actually, there aren't cattle directly around Lubbock. Rather there are cotton fields and soybeans. For cattle ranching you either have to go east or north. Even when I lived there in the 1970's I wouldn't have called Lubbock "country" -- just terribly conservative, indeed with a fair number of people who affect Texas farmer/rancher dress. However, even in those days the only country dance hall I can think of was the Cotton Club, located outside of town and actually a rather cosmic place with lots of dope smokers. Joe Ely really sort of got his start there. The one thing you said that is true about Lubbock is that it is rather isolated.

The University of Texas at Austin is a serious, world class university -- but that means post-graduate studies and research, not undergraduates. Universities are judged on the basis of the number, range and quality of their PhD programs and other advanced degrees, and on their research productivity. Being a party school is only significant to undergrads, as is football.

[yorker]

Thanks for all the great replies. I am actually not afraid that Lubbock is going to be so much different than where I live now, rather looking forward to it. I have spent too much time living in New York and it is getting mundane and that is the reason why I chose to go down there. It will add a new spin to my life and its good to always view things from two points of views rather than just one. However, the conservatism of Texas I will have to get use to because I am a very liberal minded person haha.

[Mr. Solis]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/texas...est-texas.html

Here is a link that will direct you to some info on country and western dance halls in and around Lubbock on this very forum. Maybe you 2 just dont get out that often, maybe too serious.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by yorker

Thanks for all the great replies. I am actually not afraid that Lubbock is going to be so much different than where I live now, rather looking forward to it. I have spent too much time living in New York and it is getting mundane and that is the reason why I chose to go down there. It will add a new spin to my life and its good to always view things from two points of views rather than just one. However, the conservatism of Texas I will have to get use to because I am a very liberal minded person haha.

The people here tend to be very conservative, but accepting for the most part. Some of them may not understand or agree with your viewpoints, but they will accept you as long as you don't try to shove your ideas on them. This is coming from a moderate living in the city. I have found that there is a growing liberal presense, so it's not like you are going to be the only one of your mindset there. It will be a very different place, but like I said before, you seem to have a good attitude about it, so you just might like it.

Texas Tech has been known as a party school, but it is gaining prestige. It is about to become a Tier 1 university.

Mr. Solis, it's okay to be wrong every once in a while. It's not that big of a deal.