<p>I feel like in the next decade UT's rank and prestige will go up and be more well-known, because while other states are losing money, texas is doing fairly well and as UT egins to reduce teh top 10% rule, hopefully more and more, the overall academics will get better.</p>
<p>Do you think UT has alot of potential to become much more better in the future?</p>
<p>actually im just hoping by the time i graduate from ut, it will be more prestigous (outside of TX) than it is now ;p</p>
<p>Unless UT stops taking public funds, i dont see the top 8 rule going away.(UT is the only school that it really affects) I think UT can become better, but i dont know how much better. If no more public schools step it up, UT will continue to rule texas. Aside from everything else, without the Texas Longhorns football program UT is just another great school academically. It crazy that UTs firing professors while paying Mack Brown 5million, not including bonuses. </p>
<p>Imo if you know you dont want to work in texas it would be more beneficial to go 2 another school.(but hey thats just my opinion)</p>
<p>Oh, pierrechn, there are so many uninformed statements in your post I won’t even try to correct them.</p>
<p>dae, Texas is already highly ranked nationally. The future will be tricky, though, because of the severe budget cuts that will be required. My dad has been a UT professor for a very long time, and he is concerned. The legislature held UT to about a 5% tuition increase this year but didn’t give them enough money. It puts the school between a rock and a hard place.</p>
<p>There are a lot of budget cuts everywhere, not just UT. However, I see UT holding its place or rise a few spots up the rankings in the next couple years. Nothing too big.</p>
<p>Pierre, Brown is the head of one of the most successful football programs in the nation that has yearly profits of over 45 million. Not only this, football is king (and the cash cow) of college sports and props up Texas’ athletic department that ranks #1 in that nation in revenue of over 120 million annually. Brown may be highly paid, but what he is doing brings lots of money into the athletic department ans subsequently to the university. He is being paid by a different entity than professors and even if he was paid less, there is no evidence that more professors would stay. Yet again you prove that you are not very knowledgeable. You said you are going to A&M right? How about just stick to their board.</p>
<p>Back on topic, I think Texas has room to grow a bit, but will be greatly restricted by the top 10% (or whatever the numbers is now) rule. UT is already a great school, but I think to take that next step, they need more free range to select who they want. Whether that be out-of-state students or even foreign students. Right now, being one of only two tier one universities in the state of Texas, the legislature is effectively forcing them to serve Texas, and a few other students sprinkled in there. I think for Texas to move up a bit, there needs to be more viable options in Texas, so that UT can be “unshackled,” and more aggressive in attracting highly intelligent out-of-state students, and more selective in who they take from the state.</p>
<p>Not to take away from this thread but I wonder about the top 10%, top 8% rule. I’ve heard several people argue that rank is not a good indicator of how successful the student well be at the college level, is that true? I’m under the impression that if you are or were in the top 10% of your class, the chances of you graduating from UT in four years with a solid GPA (vague, I know) are like 99%.</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel this might or should be true?</p>
<p>AAli4Real, it would be interesting to see the statistics, but I think your estimate is way off. There are kids coming from really poor school districts who will be ill-prepared for any college, much less UT. That’s the problem with the 10% rule - kids at the 50% mark in some high-achieving schools would do better than top-ranked students at inferior schools.</p>
<p>My dad has told me that they have found SAT scores to be a better indicator of academic success at UT.</p>
<p>yeah SAT scores are probably going to be a better indicator since they’re standardized unlike high school curricula which could range from very hard to really easy. it’s pretty easy to make top 10 percent at idk, farmer’s branch (not bashing on it, lol), but these types of districts have a lot of top 10 percent, sub 1700 SATs which means that the kids might be hard workers, but lack general aptitude, which is a must in college</p>
<p>FIRST AND FOREMOST EVERYONE IN THE US KNOWS WITHOUT FOOTBALL UT AINT **** SPORTS WISE. (even if they have other good teams, FB is americas sport)</p>
<p>LMAO the football program is what attracts so many of the Top 10% kids, not the academics. (this is a very true statement, FB is what put UT the national spotlight) Hell most of the people in the Class of 2010 like myself, probably heard of UT in 2006.(when they went to the rose bowl)</p>
<p>You people can try an contest what i say all you want, but we all know without football UT is just another school.</p>
<p>Hee hee, you’re so cute, pierre!</p>
<p>@pierrechn That’s based on empirical evidence, correct? Considering you’re a hs senior and haven’t even stepped foot in a UT classroom?</p>
<p>What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of UT?</p>
<p>be honest kids</p>
<p>Top 10 engineering program.</p>
<p>This thread is cute. No change, not anytime in the next decade or 3</p>
<p>Lots of people may think football when they think Texas, but not everyone. Heck, i think that is part of what this thread is about. How does Texas become more than just a football program in the eyes of many Americans? Just because you think football when you think Texas doesn’t mean everyone does though. As much as I love football and sports in general, I would never attend a university because of a team and I know there are many others that think the same way. There is no need to, you can root for who you want so why go to a school just for the team? You’re off your rocker if you believe that all of these top 10% students are flocking to UT because of their football team. Most, if not all people in the top ten clearly value education and they see something in the best public university in the state. Most people who view UT as a football program are ill-informed people from outside of Texas (at least from my experience).</p>
<p>Also, I would say that rank isn’t good indicator because, like others have said, it doesn’t tell the full story about the student. For one, schools aren’t equal, a top 10% student from a non-competitive school could miss the top 25% at a very competitive school. There is also more to a student, and person than their grades in a class. A student with ton of leadership positions, community service, and a class rank of 11/100 is a more deserving candidate than a student who did nothing but study and is 10/100 at the same school. Yet, the second would automatically be in in past years, while the other could easily miss out.</p>
<p>I know many that would attend a university for a team though. Sad. I’m going to disagree with your belief that most of the top 10% value education. Not once they arrive at college and get distracted, at least.</p>
<p>Really? I have heard of a team interesting some people I know and introducing that school to them. But, I don’t know any that chose a school because of the team. And with the top 10%, I mean more of before they reach campus. I am talking about when they are looking at schools. I may be wrong about this, but from my experience, this is what I noticed.</p>
<p>Well i do think that the football program is a big part of why UT has 70% of top 10 kids. </p>
<p>College ranking only go so far, after you get a job and start building up experience they dont matter.</p>
<p>UT has 70% of top 10 kids because it is one of only two Tier One schools in Texas. In other words, they don’t have many other options.</p>
<p>My son, who knows virtually NOTHING about college football is coming to UT in fall for academics and academics only. From out of state. We have an excellent Tier One school in Ohio with a good football program, but he wasn’t interested.</p>
<p>And some people, believe it or not, do NOT choose their college based on a magazine ranking.</p>
<p>i think your son wanted to get away…</p>
<p>let me ask you something, is your son more of the bookworm type?</p>
<p>tier one status probably accounts for 40% of those top 10 kids, i mean tier one only means the school does a lot of research. Unless your a science major, you dont do much research.(maybe math and engineering, but mainly science)</p>