BackPocket said:
Guess what?
TAMU doesn't give a flying F.
Nor should they.
You wanna guess how many kids over the last decade would have loved for a spot on the A&M campus instead of a stint at Blinn + re-apply?
Truth is, for every parent who thinks they are standing tall by taking their kid off the admission rolls...there are probably 10 parents who will happily send their child in place.
You think you're doing something to make an impact. You are not.
Yeah, well you know what?...That bubble of 9 out of 10 parents using student loans to pay TAMU ridiculous fees and increases in tuition will only last so long before it bursts.
Sure, parents and students may line up to apply, but paying for it is a completely different story. Couple that with Aggie football defunding and you are looking at a significant deficit in maintaining the structural costs that Texas A&M has invested in.
Already with online enrollment and fear produced from Covid, the State of Texas is facing a budget shortage and every department across TAMU has been asked to reduce their budget by 7% outright. RIFs are ongoing people are losing jobs.
A 13 Billion dollar endowment is nice, but a lot of that is tied to O&G monies that ain't to hit right now. The TAMU System has significantly expanded the area of campus, multiple new endeavors in Dallas, Houston, Rellis, South Texas, etc. and someone needs to pay for it. Again, couple that with the growth of CS and if student numbers don't line up, there will be a bust.
Yes people will apply. We shall see how many actually get in.