This came up earlier for some reason- Baylor Med and Baylor Law.

I am fairly certain that the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has no affiliation at all with the Baylor University in Waco.

Not that this makes any difference at all in the A&M football forum, just pointing that out.

I am 100% sure that Baylor Med is not associated with Baylor University.

The most well known graduates of the University of Tennessee.



[This message has been edited by joerainsaggies07 (edited 9/30/2005 12:07a).]

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is a private medical school founded in 1900 and has no affiliation with Baylor University in Waco whatsoever.

Baylor College of Denistry in Dallas however, is part of The Texas A&M University System.

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And jock, my business interests are modest and probably wouldn't be all that impressive to you. This is also an internet board and I'm am loathe to be more open.

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That’s quite a copout. I didn’t ask for the name of your company, address, bank account and PIN. All I asked was the industry. I’m in public accounting; Big 4 to be precise. Is that really so hard???

Again, I hate acedemic smack. But I hate more the single individual who becomes the voice of America and says no one has ever heard of A&M, etc.

I am the most objective person here, just check my name.

I actually have clients (Fortune 100) throughout the country (well world really but lets leave SE Asia out of this) in all industries. Places like LA, SD, NY, Columbus, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, etc.

I dont seek out gratification for A&M, but every once in awhile it comes up (football chat, where is your ring from, etc). I have only heard one person slam A&M (and she was just trying to stir controversy calling it a cult, she then said we were in Friday Night Lights???). Most have heard of us, know the football team, but can't really know how we rate academically other than it is a "good school" (just like most here don't know anything about Florida, or Michigan State, or Washington, etc), but they are generally respectful of A&M. A few are very favorable to A&M, I had an HR Director of a Fortune 100 hi-tech firm saying they really favored Aggies, that we had engineers who were well-prepared and ready to work.

I can tell you that my company, which hires aggressively nationally, has three schools at the top every year - A&M, Texas, and Illinois. Michigan, Ga Tech, and UCLA and the like are usually top 10. We consider Rice, Arkansas, Baylor and SMU as well, they have good top talent, but not the depth (not a slam, just they are not of the same size). Tech, TCU, and UH also have some nice students, but your hit rate goes way down.

Now, a year or 15 years after someone has been here, it does not makes one bit of difference where they went to school, but from a numbers game, we find the Big 10 / Big 12 student to be more loyal and hard-working ON AVERAGE. But honestly, I have known some smart folks from Wisconsin Stout, La Tech, North Texas. Honestly, I could care less where someone goes to school. I have worked for a Baylor, Tech, and Texas grad at some point in my career. All were good. I have had Baylor, Tech, Texas, Stanford, UCLA, UCSD, Wisconsin, Ohio State, etc grads work for me. Honestly, school is not the biggest differentiator.

It is like the NFL. You can find amazing talent at Miss Valley State (Jerry Rice), but your odds are better at USC or Miami.

religious studies at bu would be like morality lessons from Madonna.

So you can have 8 UT grads and 7 Aggie grads work FOR you, like I get to do.

Wow, daddy payed for that high-dollar education AND gave you a job! Talk about winning the lottery...

I love reading stuff like that from people like you. It makes the truth so much more enjoyable. I guess my five posts are up.

Becasue they don't like to drink, they don't like to dance and they don't like girls.

Baylor Taxman, it's really too bad that I don't know where you work because if I did then you would be working for me.

Since when do Baylor graduates work??

taxman

it is because bu grads are not worth a damn. lazy spoiled brats. Trust me I know a few.

Notice that taxman has not hired any bu grads to work for him.

Self-ownership at it's finest.

BaylorTaxman...does being able to fill out the 1040EZ really make you a taxman ?

I went to Baylor for several reasons. My choices were Baylor, A&M, UT, Yale, Stanford, or Colorado (quite a varied group I know!) Yale and Stanford left the picture because I was just an "average" student by their ratings, and thus they offerred me zero schollarship and so I would have taken out many, many loans that I didn't want to burden myself, my wife, and my kids with later.

Colorado was thrown out because, though I loved the place, I knew I could get a better education elsewhere.

So then UT, A&M and Baylor was left. All three offerred me full paid schollarships, so money wasn't the issue. I grew up in the country, so UT, though in a great city, wwas still in a big city and not exactly where I wanted to live.

I ended up choosing Baylor over A&M because of class size, friendliness of the professors and administration I talked to, beauty of campus, and a few other things. In general, people at A&M were very friendly and helpful, but I couldn't help but get the "you're just a number" feeling. So, Baylor it was. And I have never regretted that decision, not in the least.

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I knew I could get a better education elsewhere.

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First, you turned down Colorado because of the quality of education. Then, you say you picked Baylor over A&M & Texas (both have a much higher quality of education than Baylor) because of class size, friendliness of professors, and campus beauty (huh?). What happened to that quality of education criteria? If you considered Colorado but only declined due to quality of education, why would you then choose Baylor over A&M or Texas? If the quality of your education was the first priority, there is no logical reason to pick Baylor over either A&M or Texas.

No wonder you chose Baylor if this is how your logic works.

Edited so as not to offend the sensibilities of Ol Jock. And my grandest apologies for not reading comprehensively. The fact that he had full rides to A&M and Texas makes the decision even more foolish numbnuts.

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bruin, do not judge the reading comprehension of all ags based on the last post.

he said he had a full ride numbnuts.

Just thought I would through in this meaningless nugget of information, the only schools, in Texas, the company I work for recruits from are Texas and Texas A&M.

I work in the "Big 4" consulting industry.

Noble, give an Ag a job when he graduates?

In response to the Ag with a little Baylor hatred showing:

Baylor is a great, great education. You saying otherwise is ridiculous. If all you go by is US News rankings, then I geuss I shouldn't even bother conversation (BTW, when I attended Baylor, BU was ranked higher than A&M in those rankings)

Dang Bruin....it sucks that the piece of paper on your wall isn't worth as much anymore...

What a stupid thread. Comparing Baylor and the College Station campus of A&M is like comparing apples to oranges. They are nothing alike.

Private v. Public
13k students v. 43,000 students
Religious tradition v. Military tradition

Why would you eat an apple instead of an orange? Hell, I don't know. I just like apples better than oranges.

However, I will say its funny how all you Ags keep talking about how Baylor grads get a crappy education and can't find a job.
In the next sentence you then complain that only the rich go there. How the hell did all these Baylor grads who send their kids there get rich if they received a crappy education and couldn't get a job?

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...thus they offerred me zero schollarship...

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...All three offerred me full paid schollarships...

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I was going to let the first one go, but twice in the same post.

Did they check your spellling?

I was going to let the first one go, but twice in the same post.

Did they check your spellling?
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Hey, I don't have to spell correct anymore ;-)

It'll be okay.

Dang Bruin....it sucks that the piece of paper on your wall isn't worth as much anymore...

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That papers is still worth just as much, not that I really need it any more. Baylor is not currentyl ranked much lower than A&M and again, if US News is all you base you evaluation of a university on.... well, that is just sad. In any case, I geuss you would then have to admit that Baylor's lack of worth as compared to A&M is no worse than A&M's horrid shortcomings when compared to UT.

One of my best friends from H.S. went to Baylor. We went to a small H.S. and he didn't want to go to a university ten times bigger than our hometown. His dad was a t-sip and he was a rabid t-sip fan.

Baylor was a good choice for him, I guess. They have what, 15,000 students?

In answer to the original question, one reason you would go to Baylor over other schools would be for the track program if you were a promising quarter miler.

You guys complain about smug, pompass, arrogant t-sips and then you start a thread like this.

Delete thread, kick poster in the nads, then ban him!

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I decided between Northwestern, Baylor and Washington University in St. Louis. Obviously my decision wasn't based on sports

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Yeah right you were accepted to Northwestern but went to Baylor.

BWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This debate is absolutely crazy.

Did anyone know that the head of Merrill Lynch PCS went to TCU? The youngest wealth management advisor in the country at Merrill Lynch went to Baylor. Anyone know that the new CEO of HP (fortune 50 company) went to Baylor business school with no graduate degree. Goldman Sachs is littered with Rice business school grads. Two good friends are managing directors at McKinsey, and they both went to Rice MBA.

Everyone needs to get over themselves. When you actually grow up and have made your millions - which most of you can only dream of doing - you will realize that none of these people care about the USNews rankings. Geez, TAMU, TX, Rice, Baylor and SMU are all good schools and very valuable on a national level. (notice Tech is not on this list )

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Bravo Lindale!

NM - This is stupid.

[This message has been edited by LindaleAgg (edited 9/30/2005 12:55p).]

Lindale is right on target. I work at a Big 4 firm in Dallas, and work with Ags obviously, guys from UT, Baylor, SMU, Rice, etc. We actively recruit A&M, Texas and Baylor the most.

We have gotten good and bad people from both. Baylor is a good school, and some good people come out of there. You find talent at a lot of different places.