<p>Hi,
I'm from North Carolina and I'm interested in Texas A&M for engineering. But i'm worried that<br>
people there are too country. Do you think I would be able to fit in? Could somebody who goes to a&m help me out? Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m sorry - I never thought of North Carolina as being “metropolitan”…</p>
<p>There are lots of students there from the large metro areas of Houston and Dallas. I wouldn’t consider it country except for maybe if you’re in one of the AG majors.</p>
<p>I’m from Houston, and I’m going there. I’m not “country”, or at least I don’t consider myself to be.</p>
<p>DP</p>
<p>I’m from Austin, born in San Antonio. I’ve never lived outside a major city, never lived on anything bigger than a quarter acre of land, never owned farm animals, never owned a cowboy hat, never operated a tractor, never rode a horse, graduated in a class of 650+ people, and have been told by people from NY and Seattle that I have no detectable accent. I’m probably less “country” than you OP, and I’m a sophomore at A&M.</p>
<p>Now yes, there are some country people here, but most of them are here for the Agricultural degrees.</p>
<p>I agree with Gstein. Not a horrible amount of country people outside of ag majors.</p>
<p>I’ve read that 25% of A&M are first-generation college students. And even though a lot may seem to be from from Dallas and Houston, there are a lot of school districts in that very big state. And every one of those high schools has a top 10% of their class. And 1/2 the students at A&M are top-10%-er’s. Many of the hot night spots in College Station are country bars. Aggies have been quoted in college guidebooks as saying prayer is a major activity there. You can define “country” any way you want, but it ain’t NYU, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>Roughly 1/2 of last year’s freshman class last year was top 10%. The same cannot be said for previous years. There are approx. 50,000 students at TAMU, my OOS S being one of them. He was also afraid that he would not fit in. After his first semester, he said that you can throw all the stereotypes out of the window. He absolutely LOVES it. He said he has made some great friends there (people “just like him”, too funny). He cannot imagine himself anywhere else.</p>
<p>Wemel,</p>
<p>My son is considering A & M, visiting this week, also out of state, national merit fnalist. A little nervous about the fact there’s 95% instate, but your son adjusted well and is happy there? Was he a national merit finalist, and is he in the honors program?</p>
<p>thanks for any info you can give</p>
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<p>That sounds like an insane statistic. I’m a third-generation college student, my gf is 2nd, my roommate is also 2nd. I honestly can’t think of many people I know that are 1st generation here, let alone a quarter. Besides, a statistic like that says nothing about a college. Many 1st gen. students work harder than 2nds., whom may go to college merely because that was what they were taught came after high school.</p>
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<p>Again, not sure where you get your info from… but honestly, there aren’t many churches around here. What an individual does on Sunday is there own business, but personally I have never been to church while in college and I don’t plan on doing so. There is a religious crowd here, but there is also a large amount of students who are not religious what-so-ever. As long as I’m not pushed to adopt a religion, I honestly could care less about some one else’s personal beliefs. And here at A&M I have not been “religiously pushed” once. </p>
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<p>And even at the biggest “country bars” I’ve always heard rap and hip hop songs played there…</p>
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<p>If you want NYU, go there. Honestly comparing A&M to one of the most liberal colleges in the nation is like comparing apples and oranges. NYU makes UT look conservative, and that’s saying alot. A&M has a rich story of tradition and is in a semi-rural setting, and if that makes us look “country” in your opinion, I could really care less. I’ve been here for 2 years, I think I know what we are.</p>