Current engineering students: Yesterday (October 24th) you should have received an email with the subject "Chance to win iPad mini! Take SEC Survey". Please take the time to take this survey, as one of the last questions lets you rank your agreement or disagreement with the College of Engineering's 25 by 25 initiative. Then it provides you with a blank space to explain. This is a great way to have your voice heard, as this is a very very important decision that is being passed with minimal contest.
80,000 A&M students in 10 years
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Frustrated every time I read this thread. Being surrounded by bright students(and the competition) is what makes a university great. Standards and expectations need to be raised.
Goddamit -- just when I'm reminded our football program is garbage (last night), this thread is bumped and I'm reminded our University is on its way to being garbage too
Average SAT scores for incoming students:
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
http://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student#AdmissionsandPlacement
The quality of students is getting worse, not better.
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
http://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student#AdmissionsandPlacement
The quality of students is getting worse, not better.
quote:
Average SAT scores for incoming students:
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
http://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student#AdmissionsandPlacement
The quality of students is getting worse, not better.
Nobody wants to hear those facts. The Sharp groupies ain't got time for that ****.
Is that just math and reading scores or is writing in those scores too?
quote:I've been out of A&M for a long time, but the 10% rule was around when I was in school and I knew several folks who did the Blinn/Juco route. Neither of those is anything new. I'm confused here though - can't you do the Juco thing at tu as well? I mean, I was accepted there, and the entrance requirements were similar between the schools back then.
Top 10% receive automatic admission but we are admitting more students today that are not in the top 10% . Students with grades that would not have made it 3 years ago are now being admitted with no restrictions. Even those students that are being turned down are now being sent to Blinn and most are receiving automatic admission after 2 years of course work. This has been a boom to Blinn as now they are building a new campus off the loop in College Station.
However, I do think we need to raise the entrance requirements to control enrollment. This sounds like idiocy.
We have an administration obsessed with size right now. They equate it with success. Look how much we bragged when we busted enrollment numbers in the fall. It's all about quantity and not quality with this administration.
I guess we will see next fall if President Young agrees with this route. Remember he hinted at capping enrollment and a regent publicly questioned it in the media when he first got here.
I guess we will see next fall if President Young agrees with this route. Remember he hinted at capping enrollment and a regent publicly questioned it in the media when he first got here.
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Average SAT scores for incoming students:
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
http://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student#AdmissionsandPlacement
The quality of students is getting worse, not better.
IIRC UT-Dallas and 6 other Texas colleges have higher average SAT scores than A&M now. Not kidding.
Perhaps it's time to jettison Sharp and reverse his damaging policies. Speak up,Ags!
quote:Just because scores are getting worse doesn't necessarily mean the standards are being lowered. Just more people who met the standard are getting in....
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
quote:quote:Just because scored are getting worse doesn't necessarily mean the standards are being lowered. Just more people who met the standard are getting in....
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
What it actually means is that the average score is lower.
The causes of that are what is debatable.
is there a way we can hook up with mcdonalds to give out aggie diplomas with the Happy Meals?
think of how we can grow our alumni base!
"Mr. Sharp, your order is ready, and congrats on your two-millionth diploma! oh, three kids? sure, we can throw another diploma in the bag gratis."
think of how we can grow our alumni base!
"Mr. Sharp, your order is ready, and congrats on your two-millionth diploma! oh, three kids? sure, we can throw another diploma in the bag gratis."
quote:Or maybe it is top 10 admits with much lower scores getting in ... who shouldn't.quote:Just because scores are getting worse doesn't necessarily mean the standards are being lowered. Just more people who met the standard are getting in....
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
Sharp must go.
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Pretty on par with other SEC schools.
http://collegeapps.about.com/od/sat/a/southeastern-conference-sat-scores.htm
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/average-sat-act-scores-sec-schools/
We used to be better than all SEC schools sans Vanderbilt. That's no longer true.
quote:...You sir obviously did not do well on the reading/writing potion.
Is that just math and reading scores or is writing in those scores too?
A&M has become a diploma mill. I have friends with kids that attend A&M that wouldn't have been admitted when I attended A&M.
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Get rid of Sharp. Stop donating until he's gone.
I see nothing wrong with this, we will eventually be the largest school in the state!!! Also, we are getting the satellite campus in McAllen, which will also give Aggie rings, our brand is about to explode(in a good way)!!
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I see nothing wrong with this, we will eventually be the largest school in the state!!! Also, we are getting the satellite campus in McAllen, which will also give Aggie rings, our brand is about to explode(in a good way)!!
I hope this is sarcasm
The top 10% rule may be repealed if UT loses the supreme court case.
If UT Loses Supreme Court Case, It Could Face Another Top 10 Percent "Crisis"
If UT Loses Supreme Court Case, It Could Face Another Top 10 Percent "Crisis"
quote:The rule or their exemption to the rule?
The top 10% rule may be repealed if UT loses the supreme court case.
If UT Loses Supreme Court Case, It Could Face Another Top 10 Percent "Crisis"
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Average SAT scores for incoming students:
2010 - 1207
2011 - 1207
2012 - 1197
2013 - 1192
2014 - 1189
http://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student#AdmissionsandPlacement
The quality of students is getting worse, not better.
Nobody wants to hear those facts. The Sharp groupies ain't got time for that ****.
quote:
Current engineering students: Yesterday (October 24th) you should have received an email with the subject "Chance to win iPad mini! Take SEC Survey". Please take the time to take this survey, as one of the last questions lets you rank your agreement or disagreement with the College of Engineering's 25 by 25 initiative. Then it provides you with a blank space to explain. This is a great way to have your voice heard, as this is a very very important decision that is being passed with minimal contest.
Anyone know the results of this?
quote:quote:
Current engineering students: Yesterday (October 24th) you should have received an email with the subject "Chance to win iPad mini! Take SEC Survey". Please take the time to take this survey, as one of the last questions lets you rank your agreement or disagreement with the College of Engineering's 25 by 25 initiative. Then it provides you with a blank space to explain. This is a great way to have your voice heard, as this is a very very important decision that is being passed with minimal contest.
Anyone know the results of this?
Sharp had the results destroyed.
79,999
quote:The SEC used to post the results but they haven't done so for the past two years (or at least I haven't seen it). This was my fourth year taking the survey and it was the same format as past years: rate the extent to which you agree or disagree with 25x25 and explain any grievances. Supposedly Dean Banks receives the feedback but she hasn't addressed the students on it during her tenure. Between our experience with the surveys and a lack of communication from the department leadership we are under no illusion that they actually care about what we have to say.quote:
Current engineering students: Yesterday (October 24th) you should have received an email with the subject "Chance to win iPad mini! Take SEC Survey". Please take the time to take this survey, as one of the last questions lets you rank your agreement or disagreement with the College of Engineering's 25 by 25 initiative. Then it provides you with a blank space to explain. This is a great way to have your voice heard, as this is a very very important decision that is being passed with minimal contest.
Anyone know the results of this?
Besides, the department is now taking money from Chevron to create corporate branded extensions of the main campus program. With money changing hands like that I seriously doubt that Dean Banks would care about what the students or faculty have to say anymore anyway.
Doesn't this thread need to be on the Diploma Mill board?
Kathy Banks is making it hard to attract top faculty. I imagine they don't want to teach at community colleges.
Cant put 80,000 students in thr stand. If you lose a bunch of games, less than half will still want to come. Seems reasonable to me.
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