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  1. 8 hours ago, yoladu said:

    If that is a weighted GPA and in a fairly reputable HS, then yes, likely.

    Typo-3.5 (not 3.7) weighted GPA and their school has the district STEM program which didn’t help my “scholar” twin who would have made top 5% if he would have transferred to a neighboring high school. (One B in 4 years but hurt ranking by only taking 2AP classes the first 2 years…)

  2. 3 hours ago, HookEm said:

    He is still trying to figure out his direction. He has loved his geology classes so far, but hasn't made exceptional grades on them.  If you go to UT Jackson School, does it help your chances getting into their graduate program? 

    It should but the key is to get in good with the professors that teach the courses the last 2 years (or on the 660 field trip).  In general, they would rather have a grad student they know vs someone coming in from outside...

    (The 660 field trip for 6 weeks was probably the best time I had in the department and I've made lifetime friends from it... Only 3 of us that went on the field trip went on to get geology masters and only 2 of us are still employed in the E&P industry... On the flip side, a recently retired prof told me that the majority of kids with a BS move to other fields post graduation but have been very successful because employers appreciate critical and analytical thinking skills you learn as an undergraduate...)

  3. 1 minute ago, yoladu said:

    i have twins, so i get your "scholar" / "non scholar" deal. Both equally smart, but each has very different attitudes toward school/the academic grind.

    We figured both would go their separate ways for school but in the end, decided to not only go to school together but to room together. We’ll see how that works as one is the “party-er” and a slob while the other is the bookworm and neat freak… But both said that they would rather deal with the devil they know than get some “random” person in their room and hopefully will keep each other in line…

  4. 7 hours ago, HookEm said:

    My daughter is going to Arkansas in the fall.  She was borderline at UT and got CAP.  Decided instead to go up there and enjoy the full college experience and great smaller town vibe. She is going to double major in Finance and Supply Chain.  Arkansas has a top-3 supply chain program in the country, I'm sure aided by their close working with Walmart and the many other businesses up there.

    My son is at UT studying geology. In some ways I think my daughter will get the better college experience.

    All-in, the price will be about the same for both of them.  Hit me up on DM if you want more info on Arkansas.  It is a great option if you want in-state prices and big college feel, but don't want to go Aggy or Red Raider.

    Hopefully your son is going to get his MS if he’s gonna stay with geology and wants to go O&G… (been there, still living it…)

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  5. 3 hours ago, HookEm said:

    Yeah we went up to visit in the fall and she was sold.  It was an absolutely brilliant fall day with the leaves turning and the air crisp.  We never get days quite like that in the Austin area.

    I'm kind of excited to see what Calapari does with their basketball program. It sounds like he is getting all the resources he needs, and he can certainly recruit.  They could be a fun team to follow during her four years up there.

    Right now Arkansas isn't ranked very well academically... #178 on US News. About like Alabama, Ole Miss, LSU, Okie State, and K-State.  But I can see that changing in the coming years. There are a TON of Dallas kids that can't get into UT or A&M... or that miss out on their major. Kids in the 8%-12% range in their class. These kids are applying to Arkansas in droves, especially since the Oklahoma and Louisiana schools don't offer tuition matching.  The applications are up so much so that they are probably going to raise the standard for full in-state tuition for the Texas folks.  As UT and A&M keep getting more selective, so will Arkansas, and their rankings will go up accordingly.  

    JMHO.

    Fellow Pig-bound dad as well…  My twins are also headed there in the fall for supply chain. One of them (top 11% and 30 AP hours) turned down a full ride at Tulsa and partial at others because of the Walton school ranking and the other boy decided TT was a smellier version of College Station and decided to follow his brother and room together than going to Tech. (Full disclosure, I got my MS Geology there but hated every minute after a BS in Austin). If it wasn’t for the SC ranking at Ark, both would have gone elsewhere. With the near in-state tuition they offer for top Texas students, the cost if you pay for everything is about the same as UT or TT in-state (but I hear next year going forward is going to be much more restrictive on getting this in-state discount.)
     

    My “scholar” didn’t even bother to apply to UT as he was told that if he wanted McCombs, he needed to be top 3 or 4% in his high school (big 6A school with a district STEM program) when we did our Austin campus visit.  Had no desire to go the CAP route and risk a LA degree… He does hope to possibly get into UT for a Masters but Ark has a program where you can get you MS in 5 years and with AP credits, a MS in 4…

    Old enough to remember the SWC rivalry but really liked the campus and “old town” next to it. Gonna enjoy the visits other than the trip from Houston… (House rental and tickets already in hand for the UT game there in November and I will be wearing burnt orange)

    (Not sure a&m is getting more selective as my non-scholar - barely top half of his class - did get accepted to a&m but he only applied there because my wife’s side of the family is Maroon 3 generations back and only applied “for grandpa”…) I suspect he got accepted to Ark after being initially “wait-listed” there because they really wanted his brother but with a 3.7 gpa also gets the tuition discount…)
     

     

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  6. My 13000w propane (Tri-fuel) will power my 4K sqft house so long we don’t use the dryer, microwave or stove when it’s on. I’ve got soft start capacitors on both my 5 and 3 ton a/c’s but still need to set both to 60deg when the gen is running to keep them from cycling on and off (or just use the upstairs one) to keep the load down.  I get about 6 hours per propane tank (have 5) so can run awhile before I need to add gasoline or connect to the gas line in the laundry room to power it indefinitely. I think the whole setup cost me 2-2.5k including gen, cable and electrician. Beats the 15k quote in got for a Generac (as my gas main is on the opposite side of the house from the breaker panel…) only pain is it isn’t “instant on” as I have to turn on the propane and flip the switch on the breaker box but that takes less than a minute…. I’ve also added a few UPS’s to my mesh wifi so that never goes down and can run some stuff interrupted until I fire up the gen. Luckily my gen sits in a covered pool house so I don’t need to wheel it out of storage and all I have to do is turn on the gas and fire it up…

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  7. 5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


    hire a professional 

    I did - electrician put in the lock-out switch on the breaker box and then connected the external socket where I p-lug in the 240V cable from the generator. And the lockout switch is what keeps the power from back-feeding up the external wiring to the pole and is required by law.

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  8. Sorry to derail this thread so this will be my last post here and any further ones will be on the Surly kids who didn’t go to UT one…

    Yea, never had been to Fayettenam until last year but the old town by campus is great and reminded me of Austin the the 80’s when I attended UT and will probably buy a house there for the kid to live in next year.  

    @irishtexan - yea, kid does manual labor as a job now and benches 300# at18 (no ‘roids)  But won’t need to swing a shovel as he can use his trust fund to hire someone to dig a ditch for him if needed…

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  9. 53 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Didn’t want to give CAP a go? 

    Graduating top 10% but wants to do supply chain and the Walton School ranked pretty good and they are giving him money. Didn’t want to go CAP route and then risk not get into McC business school… Can get a Masters there in 5 years (actually closer to 4 with all the AP credits he has going in…) A third of the undergrads there are from Texas…

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  10. 5 hours ago, msucolt45 said:


    Those games are full of HATE by the opposing fans. We faced Arky in Sarks’ first year and they (UT players) were like deer in the headlights for the first three quarters! Hate is hate and you have to be prepared for it!

    Hell, I don’t even like driving to Hot Springs with TX tags on my vehicle.

    Hook’em!!!

    Ha - My kid is going to pig in the fall and I told him I'm putting a hog sticker on his car because of Texas tags...

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  11. 2 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    Started in 1985 and the "shanty" got wrecked all the time, if you can call it that, since it looked pretty bad to begin with.  The frat guys always got blamed, so I just went with that.

    Growing up in Austin, I went to the drag and west mall all the time, especially in high school and I don't even remember seeing the shanty then.

    I remember a couple of protests I had to shuffle through, but no big deal.

    The most annoying thing were the pamphletiers that were on campus. The Jews for Jesus guys were especially pushy. Not sure why I got the treatment. I guess it was the blond hair and blue eyes with a pagan smirk on my face that drew them in.  I also remember my Antisemitism in History and Literature professor, who was Jewish, hated that group in particular based on the stupidity of the idea alone.

    That was a different time and I'm pretty sure the administration thought all of the South Africa stuff was cute compared to all the Vietnam protests just a few years earlier.

    Also, the Texas economy was in the shitter back then, so we were all just fighting to stay employed.

    The only thing I recall or paid attention to of those the protests/tables on the West mall at that time was Sister Sally preaching about how sorority girls evolved into sluts and whores... (I stopped to listen for pointers...)

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