<p>lonestardad, the excesses were real. Mistakes were made and admitted to by thinking Baylor folks. Measures have been taken. Baylor is healing her self-inflicted wounds. Unfortunately much of the damage or fall-out (like the posts on this thread) is still to be felt. There will be some outsiders that will still insist upon piling on, even when BU has been a victim of self-tackle-ization.</p>
<p>I liken Baylor's problems with the EX-Prez to a view I have of a certain type of preacher. If he's pastor at a 50 person country church, he wants membership to increase to 500. If he pastors a rural 500 person church he wants a suburban church of 5000 . If he has a suburban church of 5000, he wants a urban church of ten thousand. And if he has an urban church of ten thousand- he wants a college. Former President Sloan just decided to skip the intermediate steps and go straight to the "college" stage. For the second time in a quarter century Baylor had to be rescued from the fundamentalists. Twice, with the old-line faculty being a rock of Gibraltar both times. As I've read somewhere else recently, all the pretty buildings are for naught if you don't have the right people teaching. (You can survive with poor facilities, but not with a poor faculty.)</p>
<p>AF337- if that is correct, I simply can't imagine how they came up with that. Baylor is nowhere near UT or A&M in my opinion. I'm sure it has some strong areas and some excellent professors, but it is not on the level of the two big state universities.</p>
<p>Academic Rating
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60-99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student-teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources. Please note that if a school has an Academic Rating of 60<em>, it means that the school did not report to us all of the statistics that go into the rating by our deadline. Please also note that a school with an Admissions Selectivity Rating of 60</em> will have an Academic Rating that is probably lower than it should be, since the Admissions Selectivity Rating is a factor in the calculation that produces the Academic Rating. </p>
<p>I imagine part of that score has to do with both UT and A&M being reported as "Class discussions are Rare" (both are currently in the top 20). But, I imagine class discussions are really hard to conduct when the class is being taught be a TA.</p>
<p>To readers of this thread that may be interested in applying to Texas Colleges/Universities - Though iamacrazyscientist asked those responding to rate just a few universities in Texas, there are numerous colleges and universities in Texas that may suit your particular needs as well. In that vein, I wanted to recommend an upcoming publication (available early September) , "The Guide to Texas Colleges & Universities - 2005" (the Guide), that covers dozens of colleges and universities in Texas from the largest and best known (such as UT - Austin and Rice) down to private colleges with less than 1,000 students. Similar to other annual college books that draw on students' perspectives (such as the Yale Daily News College Guide) in a chatty, narrative fashion, the Guide to Texas Colleges & Universities has a one or two page write-up on each college/university. The Guide is published by Texas Monthly magazine so you can "google" it up for more information if interested.</p>
<p>Bandit, don't you know there is some orange blood boiling in Austin? (and I am surprised BU didn't get hammered.) This means that in all of Texas there is one tier one university on that list (Rice). All the rest are tier two.</p>
<p>It must be the top 10% rule that's wreaking havoc with the SAT scores. I expect it will be a long time before our incredibly weak legislature changes the rule. Unless, of course, UT gets taken over by one of the utilities - they seem to have the most effective lobbyists.</p>
<p>I keep reading posts of how people hate religious affiliated schools due to hipocracy? I believe people who bash on the means of conservatism have no clue what they are basically stating. Look around people hipocracy is all around and you are also full of it so stop bashing religious affiliations because conservatism to a certain degree is good. I do however disagree in the ways of watering down substantial information and yeah some religious colleges do that but so does the governement; so the truth is why go around pointing fingers at certain colleges' learning programs who are associated with religion; Also most religious colleges do not live out their religion in their studies nor teachings.</p>