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"I saw that Longhorn logo and I was like, 'I really, really like that. I want to be a Longhorn,'"
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Meanwhile, Mau graduates from high school this week. Amid the confusion over her application to UT-Austin, she began to consider other options. She toured a couple more universities and researched the medical school acceptance rates of other pre-med programs. After some soul-searching, she reconsidered where she truly belonged.
She'll be attending Texas A&M this fall.
I got a ticket once in Fayette county, Really makes you think.Wade Winston Wilson said:
I've been to Fayetteville before. This really hits close to home.
Man, I don't think I could get into Community College these days! Now that ITT and Trump U are kaput I'd be out of options!74OA said:
Setting aside the vagaries of the state's automatic admissions policy, the remarkable aspect of this story to me is that a student with her outstanding academic and social record was also rejected as a general applicant. What does it take these days?
Beer Baron said:
So we accepted someone they didn't? How's that a longhorn joke?
74OA said:
Setting aside the vagaries of the state's automatic admissions policy, the remarkable aspect of this story to me is that a student with her outstanding academic and social record was also rejected as a general applicant. What does it take these days?
We only know the highlights of her resume.74OA said:
Setting aside the vagaries of the state's automatic admissions policy, the remarkable aspect of this story to me is that a student with her outstanding academic and social record was also rejected as a general applicant. What does it take these days?
redd38 said:Beer Baron said:
So we accepted someone they didn't? How's that a longhorn joke?
She was accepted by both schools and choose A&M after looking beyond who had the best logo.
powerbelly51 said:We only know the highlights of her resume.74OA said:
Setting aside the vagaries of the state's automatic admissions policy, the remarkable aspect of this story to me is that a student with her outstanding academic and social record was also rejected as a general applicant. What does it take these days?
Not knowing test scores, AP classes, etc. it is hard to evaluate her as a candidate.
She was initially denied admittance to UT.74OA said:redd38 said:Beer Baron said:
So we accepted someone they didn't? How's that a longhorn joke?
She was accepted by both schools and choose A&M after looking beyond who had the best logo.
Top 10% Valedictorian at a very, very podunk school. This needs to be stressed.Rusty GCS said:
...this why we are questioning what in the heck these admissions people are looking for when a Top 10% valedictorian is told by a Dean that her resume was easily good enough.
let me know when the reputation of a tamu graduate is that of being from a degree mill.blindey said:
So the takeaway here is that Texas A&M is well along the way to turning itself into Arizona State (except without the hotties)?
I'm sure that Madison is a smart girl, but how "outstanding" of an applicant is she, really?74OA said:
Setting aside the vagaries of the state's automatic admissions policy, the remarkable aspect of this story to me is that a student with her outstanding academic and social record was also rejected as a general applicant. What does it take these days?
Rusty GCS said:
10% is 10%. She was 1 if 10.
And every university in America strives for a low student to teacher ratio because it provides a better education. These small town kids have received a lot of 1 on 1 education.
Small town doesn't mean less of an education and Madison is obviously smart as she has now been accepted to Texas and Texas A&M.
And I don't care how she got her leadership roles. Only that she has had leadership roles and grown from them.
You do realize that she was initially denied admittance to UT?Rusty GCS said:
Small town doesn't mean less of an education and Madison is obviously smart as she has now been accepted to Texas and Texas A&M.
Well, that depends on how exactly you define "top 7%" in this case. In theory, that would be 0.7 students, but you can't admit a fraction of a student. So, how do you convert this into a whole number?PrincessButtercup said:
Texas doesn't do top 10%. They do top 7%. She wasn't top 7% because no one could be.