More Texas Recruitement Info

OHNOITSJESS · #1 09-17-2008, 08:23 PM

woot. At least no one is saying those that couldn't get into A&M and UT go to Tech [not the case for me, I prefer the Lubbock setting over Austin].

Here at Tech we hear that Texas State, U of Houston and [of course] Tech all have chances of being the next flagship [and I agree that either Texas State or Tech should be next]... actually I read an article that pointed out the strengths and weaknesses of both. Besides those schools, I think many people do leave out UT-Dallas [it was waaaaaaay too close to home for me...]. They do have a strong engineering and medical program [I think....] which is due to their close proximity to TI and the "Silicon Valley" in Dallas and various hospitals.
As for UNT, I don't think they are flagship material [I don't even think Tech's there yet...] but with more funding who knows? Their engineering program is not well established, but they have a really strong Music program. Not trying to pick a fight, I think they need to work on bringing up strong programs in all other areas before they can be flagship.

I haven't been to UTEP nor do I know much about them to state an opinion

epchick · #2 09-17-2008, 11:07 PM

I've heard that UT-Arlington is harder to get into.

I still don't want to see UT-Dallas or University of Houston get it. It would be beneficial for the whole state if they had more flagship schools across the state instead of located in the Austin/DFW/Houston area. There is more to Texas than just those 3 cities. Besides I haven't heard anything special about UT-Dallas nor U of H for it to be chosen.

UTEP has a VERY strong engineering program, as well as nursing program. UTEP is also really big into research labs & such. Recently, El Paso just got a medical school (the Paul L. Foster Medical School) but I believe that is part of the Texas Tech umbrella and not part of UTEP.

I'm not gonna say that UTEP matchs up to A&M or UT, but it would be nice to have a little recognition for our academics. But I doubt that they will pick UTEP.

OHNOITSJESS · #3 09-18-2008, 01:02 AM

lol. i just realized one of my good friends freshman year went to UTEP transferred to Tech and went back after a semester after being homesick. But she would tell us about how pretty the architecture of the buildings were both here and there but how they were totally different [she said something about it being Oriental or Syberian or maybe i'm thinking about the time she went to see the Trans Syberian orchestra... but how here it was really Spanish style]

anywhoo... the Med School in EP is Tech's... and they opened one in Dallas too...

idk about UT Arl. admissions... all my cousins went [or currently go] there and i'm not going to lie... [except for the one currently there waiting to transfer out to law school] they aren't the brightest in the bunch [and they claim to have a right to claim themselves "longhorns" because they go to a school with UT in the name.. RIGHT]

I do support the idea of having a flagship out of the way. From experience i can say having Tech in Lubbock has prob. increased intrest in the city, compared to a normal city in Texas [just an example who has heard of Farmers Branch?]

sorry for any typos. i've been staring at chemical equations all day.

epchick · #4 09-18-2008, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by OHNOITSJESS

lol. i just realized one of my good friends freshman year went to UTEP transferred to Tech and went back after a semester after being homesick. But she would tell us about how pretty the architecture of the buildings were both here and there but how they were totally different [she said something about it being Oriental or Syberian or maybe i'm thinking about the time she went to see the Trans Syberian orchestra... but how here it was really Spanish style]

The architecture of UTEP is from Bhutan. There are only a couple of buildings that don't have that architecture (the ones from waaaaay back in the day). They changed the architecture to a Bhutanese style when a former President's wife went to Bhutan & was inspired it. UTEP has close relations with Bhutan because of the architecture & a couple months ago the Prince of Bhutan came and visited.

NutBrnHair · #5 09-18-2008, 11:39 AM

I can't believe I'm seeing all of this discussion re: tiers!

LonghornPNM · #6 09-18-2008, 01:06 PM

My understanding is that UT Dallas is a little harder to get into than UT Arlington.
However, UT Arlington is much bigger than UT Dallas and I always have the impression that there is much more of a campus life there, UT Dallas always seems more like a commuter campus. I could be off on that assumption, but if so I feel like that would give UT Arlington a leg up on Dallas for being in the running to become the next flagship.