Texas Wahoo

The 10% rule is a factor. It isn't the only one though because even at UT, which is 95% in-state students, only 70% of the students entered via the 10% rule.

 

The private school factor is at play as well but again, it isn't the only one. Rice doesn't attract out of state kids like her peers (Ivies, Stanford, Chicago, Northwestern, Emory, Vandy, etc...). Ask any admissions person at Rice and they'll tell you, it is hard to recruit kids to Texas. 

 

Why is that? 

 

I have my ideas and I think one of them is how we treat education in this state. Hell, my social media has been blowing up about Mary Lou Bruner. If you don't know who she is, google her. It would be funny if it weren't so scary. 

 

So, yeah, the brain drain is real. It is measurable. It exists. We can either address if or ignore it but I'd prefer to try and make our state universities as attractive as possible. Maybe UH, Tech, UNT, etc... could go after bordering state kids like Arkansas and LSU do here. Heck, Arkansas offers 90% off out-of-state tuition to Texas kids who have a 3.6 and an ACT score of 26 or better. Since they instituted that policy, the number of Texans at UA has increased from 300 to over 1,700.

The University of Texas is forced to fill 75% of the class (it used to be 80%+) with top ten percent applicants (so it ends up being more like the top 7%), with the other 25% of applicants coming from all other Texas applicants, out-of-state applicants, and international applicants.  Most of those slots are always going to go to highly qualified in-state students that do not meet the top ten percent requirements for whatever reason.  That leaves very few slots for non-Texas residents.

Unfortunately, because of the small number of slots available for out-of-state students, all non-Texas residents are going to have more difficulty getting into the University of Texas than they would for other similarly situated schools.  Thus, you end up having trouble attracting out-of-state candidates because you are competing with extremely prestigious schools for those students.

Yes. It's easy to find. 

 

Texas ranks #2 in the nation behind New Jersey with a net loss of college students each year. Nearly 18,000 a year leave the state for college. 

 

What's worse is how lousy our schools are at attracting out of state kids. Here are the latest figures for states luring out of state kids to attend their colleges.

 

30,408 Pennsylvania

30,259 New York

24,726 Massachusetts

13,502 California

13,474 Illinois

13,386 Indiana

13,166 Florida 

13,073 Virginia

12,255 North Carolina

12,218 Ohio

9,140 Connecticut

8,944 Wisconsin

8,423 Arizona

8,356 Rhode Island

8,161 Missouri 

8,097 DC

8,065 Alabama

8,022 Iowa

7,837 South Carolina

7,616 Minnesota

7,341 Tennessee

7,120 Georgia

7,118 Maryland

6,937 Colorado

6,600 Michigan

6,425 TEXAS

 

The second most populated state falls in 26th place with attracting college kids. That's a problem. One that could be fixed by elevating the stature of more schools.

One of the biggest problems is the Top Ten Percent Rule, as it limits the number of out-of-state kids a school like the University of Texas can accept to a very small percentage.

If their proposal is deemed to be an encroachment, they will sell the land.  No harm, no foul.   (And they say they got the land for below-market price, so they should be able to sell it for a profit.  And fwiw, their is support for that claim from real estate experts)

Or lease the land as a revenue stream.  Or maybe, as was the case with the PUF land, they will find oil.

Unless something has changed in the past few years, this is not the case. The PUF only goes to the flagship schools and one or two others in each system. Most of the schools in each system receive from a different, smaller endowment, the same endowment that funds Texas Tech and UH.

I wouldn't exactly say "one or two others in each system.  The following lists are straight out of the Texas Constitution:

A&M System Schools with access to interest from the PUF

(1) Texas A&M University, including its medical college which the legislature may authorize as a separate medical institution;

(2) Prairie View A&M University, including its nursing school in Houston;

(3) Tarleton State University;

(4) Texas A&M University at Galveston;

(5) Texas Forest Service;

(6) Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations;

(7) Texas Agricultural Extension Service;

(8) Texas Engineering Experiment Stations;

(9) Texas Transportation Institute; and

(10) Texas Engineering Extension Service.

UT System Schools with access to interest from the PUF

(1) The University of Texas at Arlington;

(2) The University of Texas at Austin;

(3) The University of Texas at Dallas;

(4) The University of Texas at El Paso;

(5) The University of Texas of the Permian Basin;

(6) The University of Texas at San Antonio;

(7) The University of Texas at Tyler;

(8) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas;

(9) The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston;

(10) The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston;

(11) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio;

(12) The University of Texas System Cancer Center;

(13) The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler; and

(14) The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio.

CVS is generally open 24 hours, so it's useful for people that work long hours and can't get to a Target before they close at 9 or whenever they close.

I miss the Oshmans that used to be at Memorial City. That place was amazing when I was a kid. You could play basketball, hit from a pitching machine, test out tennis rackets... Now it's just Academy, but more expensive.

Dallas for sure.

theres not a more boring drive up 45 to dallas. id take a rail for sure

But how much would it cost? The train from DC to NY is $200 one way, it that's about the same distance as it is from Houston to Dallas.

only to those that have no clue....if different admission requirements, different degree requirements, and courses that do not count at one school or the other is the "same thing" then every university in the world is the same because they all are a university

I think he probably meant it has the same relation to UH that UT and UT-San Antonio, Dallas, Arlington, El Paso, etc. have. They are part of the same system.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

Easily the funniest part of this movie.

Prince's on the Katy Freeway.

I believe we've commisserated about this before. I'm constantly surprised that this Kroger remains in business with three very nice grocery stores (and one awesome organic food store -- Sandy's) also in the immediate area. Like the Kroger at Hammerly and Long Point, the one on Memorial only seems to serve the people who walk there from the shady apartments directly behind it. Wouldn't be any great loss to see it go.

Krogers in general just seem to have given up. It's too depressing to even try and shop in one anymore.

The Krogers on Eldridge/Briar Forest is much nicer - and open for 24 hours (unlike any of the ones on Memorial).

I don't even know where the heck that is... sheesh. Might take me half a tank of gas just to get there... ugh.

Maybe... if you drive a tank... and you live in Baytown

Besides this, most people really consider everything going on from Memorial City all the way out to about Dairy-Ashord as the Energy Corridor. Technically and politically, these are divided into different spheres of influence: Memorial City, Energy Corridor, and Park Row, each with their own character.

If you think the Energy Corridor only goes out to Dairy Ashford, that would not include Park Row - which only starts after Hwy 6.

The Houston Bowl along with at least ten others should be eliminated. Good bowls are good because of their tradition. Tradition will not be built with subpar teams playing in it each year. (Although Rice is pretty decent)

You have to stick it out in order to get good teams and build that tradition. The Fiesta bowl is only about 35 years old and it is now one of the BCS bowls.

There are a lot of nice apartments in the area (Memorial and Eldridge - in any direction) - There are also a couple of great parks in the area and a lot of good schools. You won't find a zoo - although there are animals about 5 miles north in Bear Creek Park. There is a library in the area which is almost entirely children's books/reading sessions (you have to go up to Bear Creek to get a library with more adult books. It's certainly not like living in the museum district, but if your husband is working for BP or ExxonMobil in that area, he can walk to work (I would drive to Chevron or Shell because you have to cross the freeway).

I believe it, conservatives are known for being little wussies afraid of everything past their white picket fence.

And yet all the political commercials here in virginia are trying to scare me into thinking McCain wants to send all of the jobs overseas. Be afraid!

No doubt! ECU has now taken it to Va Tech and WV, two teams that are overrated EVERY year because they play nobody. Both are good, on one side of the ball (WV offense and VT D/ST), but to be an elite team you need offense and defense. AND...they are the Pirates. You have to like that. What's the school war cry, "AAARRRRRRR!!!!"? I hope so.

ECU hasn't looked very good the last couple of weeks. Barely beating a bad Tulane team and losing to a subpar NC State team back to back weeks.

FYI - (you may know this, but not everyone does) - many search sites (e.g., Orbitz, Travelocity) do not show the prices for Southwest - as Southwest does not utilize them.

I did not know that. I've checked southwest's site a couple of times though, and never got a close price.

I recently started taking the DC Metro to work each day because it costs so much to park in downtown DC. However, I don't see how the savings can be that high in a place like Houston or Dallas where parking is available downtown for much less. On some quick calculations, if I pay $4 a day to take the Metro back and forth from work, I'm looking at about $1000 in metro fees just for my commute. That doesn't count any other trips I might make, like going to dinner or to the store or out on weekends. I just don't see the big benefit except in a place where parking is hundreds of dollars a month.

Sorry - it posted my response under the wrong thread.

The only thing I have to add is that the stadium seems a great deal louder with the new North End Zone.

I got booted a couple of months ago when I went downtown for a bar review class. Sign said $3 a day on the outside. I didn't realize that the other side clarified that it was $5 on nights and weekends. I went there on Friday an paid $3. I went there on Saturday and paid $3. Ended up having to wait for a half hour and then pay a $100 ticket because I paid $2 too little. At least 5 other people in my class got booted in the same lot for the same reason. What a scam.

She tried out 6 colleges, none Ivy League, before getting a dgree

She didn't even go to an Ivy League school?!?! Everyone knows you had to go to Harvard or Yale to be president. You might be able to be vice president by going to Penn or Princeton, but it would be hard to knock the presumption that you're a moron.

I don't see what the big deal is - she moved schools a few times, she changed majors a couple of times, she used college as a time for self-discovery.

Oh yeah?

Harumph.

In his defense, I fly domestically a lot and I usually search a lot of sites online to find the cheapest fare. I have yet to get Southwest as the cheapest. And based on that map, they go to almost all of the places I go. For a no frills airline, it seems weird that they're never cheaper to those airports...

Well Memorial drive is 2 lanes at some points and it has done fine all these years, I don't think Bunkhill should be widened with Voss and Gessner already available to be used.

I suppose it has been "fine," but it would be a hell of a lot better if it were two lanes all the way down it instead of going down to 1 for that stretch.

so true. this was one of many times the city had an opportunity to do something right and then they messed it up

I thought part of the reason for the huge HOV/toll structure was so that rail could eventually be added in the center. I don't know where I saw that.