<p>Oops, sorry. I didn’t read the lower portion of your initial post closely enough to observe the incredible stats for your “other” son who “often”, as you stated in the quote above, regards SMU as his number one choice. Good for him.</p>
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The point, Simple, is that you have stated your opinion regarding SMU quite clearly. We get it. SMU is great. But, those who visit this board are more interested in UT, not SMU. This shouldn’t be hard to understand.</p>
<p>The post above has the link provided for you to SMU’s CC board. Your perspective regarding SMU would be of far more benefit to that board that this one.</p>
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With all due respect, frever, SimpleLife has had ample opportunity to voice h/she opinion regarding SMU. However, there are reasons why CC has different boards. BTW, your analogy to the KKK is ridiculous and and unwarranted.</p>
<p>^^Thank you, frever, for your very nice comments. I’m glad you understand my perspective! And you’re right, we should all stop feeding the ■■■■■. What motivates people to stir things up like that? I don’t get it.</p>
<p>The only kid I know who goes to SMU fits the stereotype perfecty. But, I am not going to kid myself and think that that means every student there is like that.</p>
<p>Also, Pierre, that quote about Harvard being pointless if you die right after is just stupid. Dieing right after going to any school makes that education pointless. I just don’t get what you are trying get across with a totally pointless quote?</p>
<p>Yeah good thing I’m not a liberal arts major :\ I kinda edited that in afterwords, but the point is that I feel that SimpleLife has the right to step in and defend her school/beliefs. Even though she promoted SMU by throwing out her sons’ achievements, SimpleLife never really put down UT the way others did to SMU. I understand that this section of CC is designated for UT but I don’t see why you have to force SimpleLife out. She seemed to be defensive rather than offensive. The magnitude of hate in the history of the KKK may overshadow this completely (it does) but if someone starts throwing down the hate I don’t see why the title of this board should stop someone from defending themselves.</p>
<p>@OP- It depends what school you are trying to get into. McCombs School of Business is the hardest. You would have to be in the top 8% percent. Aryakk said McCombs starts from the top 1% until they accept 900 applicants. Then 300 are chosen from outside the top 8% barrier. Other variables are taken into consideration, not just GPA. Engineering and Natural Science would be the next hardest, then liberal arts. Your friends got into UT with low GPAs because they did not apply to the harder schools within UT. Your application for McCombs would be trashed if you had a 2.5 GPA. </p>
<p>As for SMU, its a great private school with great resources. With that said, it is not ranked as high as UT. Especially when it comes to business and engineering majors. For admissions, overall, SMU is a lot easier to get into compared to UT. But, SMU’s tuition is literally 3x higher than UT. I wouldn’t pay that much for SMU if I could get the same education, perhaps better based off ranking, with UT at a lower cost. UT is also more diverse than SMU. Just by SMU’s school name, you can see their affiliation. Their race ratios also speak for their lack of diversity. The big benefit in going to SMU is the class room sizes, but UT’s upper-division courses are practically the same size. </p>
<p>I wrote the second paragraph because of all the SMU talk. I’m not going to argue with anyone who argues with what I said. Simple facts mixed in with my opinion. I picked UT, not SMU for a reason.</p>
<p>Acceptance rate is only a part of how hard it is to get into a school. You also need to consider the various scores, achievements, etc… it takes to be a good candidate for acceptance.</p>
<p>No, it’s McCombs. There are plenty of people I know that didn’t get into McCombs and went into engineering. McCombs might as well have a 3% rule or something for high school graduates. Nobody from my 1400 person graduating class got into mccombs if they were lower than 5% or so.</p>
<p>An acceptance rate isn’t “only a part of how hard it is to get into a school”. An acceptance rate is a reflection of how selective a school is.</p>
<p>A school with a lower acceptance rate is more selective, meaning it’s harder to get into.
You’re right, a student’s achievements and various scores (along with much more) are considered when trying to gain acceptance. Schools with lower acceptance rates are usually more critical of these things. But WHAT makes a school selective is different than HOW selective a school is.</p>
<p>Kyle: Using an extreme example…Suppose there are two schools: Schools A and B. In addition, schools can only look at an applicant’s ACT scores.</p>
<p>School A is really, really popular and has 10,000 kids apply, but only 2,500 are accepted because a shickaton of poorly qualified students apply. In addition, any student with an ACT score above 30 is offered automatic admission. The avg. ACT score for admitted students is a 28. Acceptance rate of 25%</p>
<p>School B is less popular and has much, much more of a niche appeal than School A. As a result, only the tippy top students apply. School B has 40 kids apply and 20 are accepted. Every kid that is accepted has a perfect 36 on the ACT. All the kids that are rejected have a 35. Acceptance rate of 50%.</p>
<p>Extreme example…but is School A harder to get into than School B?</p>
<p>…An acceptance rate is heavily influenced by how popular a school is.</p>
<p>Smurffette12: If you like SMU so much, why do you even care about what us Longhorns are saying? Shouldn’t you be confident in your choice of university enough to not start a thread like this?</p>
<p>actually, kyle, that’s a bit inaccurate. if only 10 people applied to UT for a semester, i’m pretty sure all 10 would get in, which would make acceptance rate 100%. If 30,000 people applied, their acceptance rate would be much lower due to the fact that there is only so many available slots for acceptance. the amount of people applying is a very big factor.</p>
<p>if only 10 people apply, they’re not allowed to be as picky in their selection. if the university doesn’t accept the maximum number of students, then the school loses money. If the school loses money, then things will begin to be cut, such as the number of classes, professor’s salaries, jobs, and research funds. if less than the maximum allowed students apply, then UT would be in trouble financially. they would pretty much be forced to accept all the students simply to keep the money flowing.</p>
<p>UT’s standards are there because so many people apply, and thus they’re forced to be picky. therefore, only the brightest students are allowed into the university as each department allows. for example, McCombs is the most competitive school at UT, but it is not considered to be the hardest workload. Cockrell holds that title, but it isn’t as competitive as McCombs.</p>