This right here. Kids know not to pay the application fee if they are not likely to get in. Engineering and Business schools are top notch.

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I mean it's a misleading statistic. If you look at that casually you would think that 63% of seniors get in. I am saying that only the top end of seniors are even applying. Average and below average students aren't even wasting their time to apply because they know they stand no chance of getting in.

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I have read that 2/3 of the state's top-10% automatics come to A&M. I would assume that is a huge differential with schools like Texas. Same article said we are "moderately selective" Texas is "highly selective" and schools like Rice (the only one I saw in TX) are "extremely selective"

We rate with the Baylor, TCU, SMU crowd. Sip ranks with Trinity University. I didn't look across state lines because their criteria is often quite different.

We aren't a diploma mill, but we have become less selective. Does AAU still rank schools and are we still one? I think we are: That's the kind of credential I value.

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Ole Miss may be buying their way into competing with the best in the SEC next year.

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And the athlete-students won't even need to try very


hard to academically succeed because the "standards" there are so painfully low.

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We have 70,000 plus students. We're a diploma mill.

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HS students applying to the Engineering School wouldn't call A&M a diploma mill. Also employers highly value Aggie engineering degrees. So whine if you want but don't lump in my Engineering degree.

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Agreed!

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Diploma mill
Your a funny guy
You probably would not be admitted to a&m if you applied now with you high school numbers


This country needs more higher education
A&M rolls out tremendous graduates that are assets in the work force

No work force looks at a&m that way

I believe if you can teach/teain/educate 100k a year then the opportunity needs to be offered

Paper mill is an online diploma with no education around it

It pisses me off when people say that

Fb trolls

Be jealous somewhere else

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https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/texas-am-university-college-station-10366/applying#:~:text=Texas%20A%26M%20University%20has%20an,score%20of%2025%20and%2031.


If this is accurate, 63% of applicants get in. Not exactly difficult to get into if true. I understand engineering is different but becoming a student at A&M is not a difficult task.

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Bad statistic. I teach high school seniors. Most of them know not to even apply. Only the best even go through the application process. We are not a diploma mill. To say so is foolish.

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This. My son is a HS senior going the biz school route and he knew better than to apply to Mays.

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Yall seem to gloss over the fact that we fired his entire coaching staff and are entering what is basically rebuild mode with an unproven head coach and unproven staff.

Hard to blame a kid with NFL aspirations to not want to go through that.

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Almost every natty-winning HC was "unproven" until they got their HC gig.
Saban to Bama and Meyer to OhSt are two of those very few exceptions.

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Of course. He's still unproven.

Ole Miss has a good shot at the playoffs next year. We're probably looking at a 5-7 season. Hard to blame a guy in his likely last season not wanting to be part of that

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Ole Miss may be buying their way into competing with the best in the SEC next year.

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And the athlete-students won't even need to try very hard to academically succeed because the "standards" there are so painfully low.

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We have 70,000 plus students. We're a diploma mill.

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HS students applying to the Engineering School wouldn't call A&M a diploma mill. Also employers highly value Aggie engineering degrees. So whine if you want but don't lump in my Engineering degree.

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I have an engineering degree from A&M as well. It still stands that A&M is devaluing degrees from the university via increasing enrollment across the board. A&M leadership is cultivating the image of a school that cares more about growing the student body YoY to make more money instead of sustaining or improving the quality of education and overall academic experience.

I hope you're doing the things you want to do with your degree, and be darn proud you earned it.

But, don't pretend for a second A&M isn't damaging the value of what you worked hard for by oversupplying the market with new graduates. The effects may not be felt much yet, but they will for sure if A&M doesn't wake up and put a cap on enrollment and focus on making the school better.

Decent space eater but never a game changer. Definitely didn't live up to the hype.

Honestly I'd rather have McKinley Jackson back for another year. Good luck to Nolen, but just hurts our depth.