I think you guys moved up a few spots, fwiw.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
AgOutsideAustin said:
The school in Austin is getting more selective and lowering their auto admit to top 6%.
CrottyKid said:AgOutsideAustin said:
The school in Austin is getting more selective and lowering their auto admit to top 6%.
We should do the same.
AggieMavsfan said:CrottyKid said:AgOutsideAustin said:
The school in Austin is getting more selective and lowering their auto admit to top 6%.
We should do the same.
They had to apply for a waiver from the state to drop it from top 10% to top 6%. The agreement they came to with the state was that they could cap their auto admits at 75% of total admitted students.
In looking at A&M's admission profile, I am calculating that only about 64% of our "full offers of admission" (excluding team, gateway, psa, etc) are to students who were top 10%.
http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/profile
I don't love the top 10% rule, but we can't just change a state law on our own, and we probably aren't going to get a waiver in the next few years given that UT's agreement is for 75%.
McInnis80 said:
Since a part of the ranking are based on expenditures and faculty salaries, A&M will be at a disadvantage. It costs a lot more to live in Palo Alto, Cambridge or Princeton than it does in College Station, Austin or Clemson, SC. I remember when we were ranked about UT one factor was that our percentage of alumni giving was much higher than UT. I don't know how much the school benefits by a bunch of people making token contributions.
FacebookFriend said:AggieMavsfan said:CrottyKid said:AgOutsideAustin said:
The school in Austin is getting more selective and lowering their auto admit to top 6%.
We should do the same.
They had to apply for a waiver from the state to drop it from top 10% to top 6%. The agreement they came to with the state was that they could cap their auto admits at 75% of total admitted students.
In looking at A&M's admission profile, I am calculating that only about 64% of our "full offers of admission" (excluding team, gateway, psa, etc) are to students who were top 10%.
http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/profile
I don't love the top 10% rule, but we can't just change a state law on our own, and we probably aren't going to get a waiver in the next few years given that UT's agreement is for 75%.
one should probably look at the size of the freshman classes as well
A&M is really not doing a great deal to limit the freshman class or the size of the university while UT has a dream to be a 48,000 student university with a large graduate enrollment and about the lowest they can get to is 50,000
A&M wants to be 60,000+ with a much lower % of graduate students
so if A&M was to do something (intelligent like firing john not so sharp) and limiting enrollment to 55,000 or so students and bumping up the % of graduate students then you would see the % of auto admits under the 10% go up dramatically
that is the issue with UT they are not going to grow past 52,000 or so students no matter what they are doing all they can to get below 50,000
A&M at this point seems to want to compete with AU, ASU, UCF, USF and U Phoenix in enrollment size to the detriment of attractiveness to top students
Yes, moved up overall to #66. Undergraduate engineering holds at #14. Can't see business behind the paywall.oragator said:
2019 rankings are out.
Think you ticked up again?
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
Honestly, a lot of the credit has to go to the state legislature.500,000ags said:
Does anybody know what Florida does so well? #35 overall school in the country is amazing.
Their business school is similarly ranked to A&M. Engineering seems materially lower.
They do have an extensive college list - ag, arts, business, dentistry, construction, education, engineering, journalism, law, medical, nursing, pharmaceutical, public health, and veterinary.