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freyguy

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  1. Plus, to defend the colleges, how many applicants do you think they received that had identical statistics as him? 1,000 kids got a perfect score last year. So how many do you think scored a 1590? What makes this kid so special compared to the others?
  2. maybe he can't write for shit on his essays. The sobering part is folks are still not realizing that the population size of graduating seniors in the U.S. has increased from 2.5M in the 90's, to approx 3.5M in present day. That's about a 40% increase. "Top Tier" colleges have obviously not expanded by that same percentage. Folks need to recalibrate themselves on what "fair" really is.
  3. Seems like a fine post to me. Guess some folks like to root around on Twitter just to show how pedantic they can be.
  4. I'd fire them all too...amateur hour of clusterfucks
  5. John Smoltz is a douchey announcer
  6. It's great to have dreams, but people need to tap the brakes when they want to go strawman and start arguing that what it takes to be CEO is what should steer your major/decisions in life. There are roughly ~200k CEOs in the U.S., and I bet most of them still don't make "that much". Ain't nothing wrong settling for "middle-management" or being a lifelong individual contributor. Work ethic, and being able to see the big picture will carry you farther than anything else. Plus, living within your means. Do this, and you'll be surprised how much you'll get out of life.
  7. we definitely played flat, but the refs fucking fucked us on at least 5 big calls. This was worse than any okst game. good freaking god
  8. brother?
  9. my favorite Greek hero was Testacles. He had alot of moxie.
  10. so we're supposed to believe that they will be able to easily fire up one of these plants in under a month.....
  11. You know how this will end. And there will be nothing done about it....except pre-downloading our porn.
  12. Hell yeah!!!!!
  13. yeah, rub your nuts on it
  14. and this state is just great at planning for known events....
  15. my sister, (nopics) who works for one of the Co-Ops in our state said they're going thru crisis planning for the upcoming solar eclipse in a few weeks....yay
  16. How many bloody mary's will I be able to down before I'm forced to use the stadium's shitter?
  17. 100%. This was the exact vibe I got while visiting both campuses with my son last year, and it kind of freaked me out. I was all ready to be on board with him being an aggie, and I was ok with that. With UT having to limit enrollment due to population constraints, all those kids who wanted to be longhorns are switching over to a&m. Thus diluting the "cult" perception. From a hiring perspective, a&m cranks out alot of solid engineers. They simply have more numbers. Buddy of mine's son got CAPd at UT for CNS last year for CompSci. Instead of going to UTSA or UTD for a year, he told them to f off and went to a&m.
  18. Ozzy
  19. Natural Sciences college is in high demand because of the computer science majors. CS grads are getting graduating with $100k salaries...One of my son's friends who was Top 5%, 1500+ on SATs , yadda yadda, get Cap'd at UT CS. So he chose aggieland instead. Proud of my boy, he got accepted last year into ChE. He was Top 13%, 1400+ on SATs. I'd like to think it was his essays and such that got him in. An article was recently put out that said UT Austin did expand their enrollment numbers to record levels. And may be doing so again this year. So maybe UT is starting to get the message again. But the housing crunch is real, and I'm glad the boy got a dorm space. UT is very up front about not caring about placement and scores. They know all applicants are straight A students with high SAT scores. They really key in on the written responses to find the ones who stand out. And frankly, UT had the worst level of messaging about this, compared to every other college we talked to. They gave off the coldest vibe about being there for the students than UTD, a&m, ttech & USC did. So take that for what it's worth. My recommendations in no particular order: Do not ride your kid to apply. If you're finding yourself having to force them to do so, it may be a sign that they're not ready, as you will not be there to ride them during college. Hiring an admissions consultant to ride them on their various preparatory milestones may be better. Like it or not, tons of their peers are already doing so. We did put him through the Princeton SAT course, already knowing that SATs were going to be defocused. My reasoning was, I'm happy to spend $2k if it helps him become a better student. Have your kid attend every on-campus, learning session, etc for whatever college/university they are considering. Those brownie points do add up, and tells the college they really are interested. And finally, go over the written responses with them before submitting. We found even our consultant was lacking in that department. We did take glory in watching the counselor go from "there's no way in hell your son is going to get into UT" to "wow, I do not know how that happened." Best of luck
  20. Eddie got a little silly tonight. But it was a seriously good show.
  21. freyguy

    Longhorn Network

    Well, it now has AIDS
  22. Looks like I was right.
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