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Zharkov

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  1. 10 minutes ago, Deej said:

    A&M can clearly meet all of the veterinary needs in Texas.

    Er... since there is a need for more vets then it seems like aggy has NOT been meeting the need in Texas.  

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    Somebody needs to audit those fuckers.

    That place need an audit going back to WW2 at least.  Corrupt and incompetent runs deep.

  2. 44 minutes ago, UTEX90 said:

    I am really fucking sick of this becoming more and more common.  It has been atrocious since 2012.  I see it several mutlti-alumni events including fundraisers and charity banquets which I think is bullshit but I wouldn't put up with that for one second in a work environment.

    They are a garbage fan base.  Complete trash.  Always have been. 

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  3. On 4/21/2019 at 2:48 PM, totallynotabuttpirate said:

    Acted injured and stopped play multiple times during the season. Then came right back in spry as a chicken

    Excellent word choice.

  4. 1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    As a dad who had one older son go to aggy and one to UT for undergrad, I’ll say you need to let him make the decision and then support it. That said, I would try and steer him toward the full ride at UTD. It’s at least as good as aggy, and probably better, but offers the probable option of moving to UT Austin at some point.

    I worked in the Admissions department at UTD unti recently (on the IT side) and can confirm UTD is better than aggy.  Was there for five years and every year the recruiters at UTD got more and more disdainful of aggy and how they admitted everybody who showed up.  And more and more irritated at UT Austin for stealing their best best recruits, lol.  They are definitely on the rise.

  5. 2 hours ago, Laughable Losers said:

    Interesting. Congratulations on the Aerospace spot, that's THE most competitive major at UT.

    He had everything in the first week applications opened. We're still hopeful and we should find out soon I hope...

    Thanks.  I have been thinking his essays must have helped him because I can't figure out the reasoning he got it and others didn't (And I'm not Surly 1%; I don't have the cash to have bought his way in like those people in the news LMAO). 

    I got him to trolling the job notices at NASA, JPL, SpaceX, ULA, etc. last year and he zeroed in on exactly what he thinks he wants to do (cryogenic rocket engines) and he worked that in.  

    He did check out A&M, and he was impressed with their aerospace program and how they seemed to have it together. The funny thing is that program seeming good killed any thought of him going there because the rest of the school stood out as clownish.  Now he may have been pre-wired to think so, but I think he was serious about giving them a chance.  

  6. 1 hour ago, Laughable Losers said:

    I have a question for the board.

    My wife and I (as well as most of our extended family) are lifetime Longhorns.

    My son is a Senior at LT in Austin, ranked in the top 5%, so auto admitted into UT. Scored in the 1500's on his SAT. Accepted into Engineering schools at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Georgia Tech, UT Dallas (with a Full Ride Scholarship)

    He wants to major in Engineering, but hasn't been accepted into the Cockrell Engineering School...yet

    Here's the dilemma. He has just been accepted into aggy Honors Engineering College with almost a full ride scholarship.

    Options:

    A. Do I accept the fact that I may have an aggy son, since it will save us at least a $100,000 in education costs

    B. Do I forbid him from going to aggy, even though he is okay with it? (not that I could really do this)

    C. Do we convince him to go to UT anyway if he doesn't get into Cockrell and hope he can transfer in eventually

    D. Do I just grab a rope and hang myself from the UT Tower

     

    This kid has had Straight A's from middle school and has taken every AP class possible. Volunteers almost weekly.

    Was he late with the application? By late I mean not the first day or three that the period opened up for applications? My son got into Cockrell for aerospace for this coming fall with just a 1430 (730 math, 700 verbal) and wasn't straight As, so he was 8% and missed the auto-acceptance to UT. Son knows a few others who had equal or better scores and didn't get in, but they sent their applications in a few weeks after the period opened.

  7. 10 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Hard to come up with a way where we haven't dominated the SEC unless you consider Vanderbilt the only SEC school.

    AllTime Texas Record Against:

    Current SEC Teams - 191-91-9 (.672 WPCT)
    Except TAMU and MU - 97-48-4 (.664 WPCT)
    Old 10 (remove South Carolina and Arkansas, too) - 41-25-4 (.614 WPCT)

    Last game against Vandy was 1928, and Vandy was a power then.

  8. 1 hour ago, satyanash said:

    blOU made our conference look like a joke. Knowing their propensity for choking in the post-season, the media favouring them over us in 2008 is all the more mystifying.

    They knew Texas would have stomped Tebow and the Gators.

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