Duncan Idaho said:
NewOldAg said:
My friends that stayed home in Ft. Worth to go to TCU think that my friends that went to SMU are conceited.
My friends that went to SMU think the ones that went to TCU are dumb.
They are both right to an extent, and that's why the stereotypes exist. All of them are privileged, white kids who are doing pretty well and enjoyed college.
If you are in position to pay your own way to either, even on decent scholarship, life isn't going to be that hard. It doesn't matter which one you pick.
Neither resembles going to A&M at all. You learn information at these schools, you learn citizenship at A&M.
Can you hear my eyes roll?
In an effort to shorten the message, I admit that may have come across more sentimental than I intended. A&M has core values, you will hear about them from the faculty and administration, and none of them address scholarship. A&M is forthrightly trying to socialize it's students in a certain way that other universities don't concern themselves with. Citizenship may not be the right word for that.
Also, I'm speaking here about the intent of the university, not the effectiveness. With 60K students, you get people who come to A&M for all kinds of reasons, and everyone gets something different out of it.