SMU, a good Private university?

Ponyup1911
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:40 +0000

Hi, I’m going to be a smu freshmen in the fall.

I just got back from orientation and met with alot of people. I didn’t meet any rich snobby kids at all. Sure the guys were wearing lacoste, ralph lauren, etc and the girls were all caring chanel and louis vuitton bags but they were all nice people. I’m sure there are some kids like that but I didn’t come across any of them.

SMU is also going up on the us news week and report rankings. We’ve been constantly moving up thanks to the works of our president turner. I expect that SMU will be in the top 50 schools in the US after this year’s reranking.

I have several friends at smu in numerous honors program as well as the President’s Scholars program. They have met with some rich snobby kids and said that it’s a small group of kids at smu now. However, the general population is not exactly the most intellectual if you’re a high power academic student with a 4.0 GPA and 2200+ sat score. The more intelligent kids tend to band together at the Virginia Snider dorm and create a great community.

I can talk a little bit about Cox as well as i am a BBA Scholar. Roughly half the students at smu are business majors. I cant comment on the classes yet but the network potential is phenomenal. I believe smu was or is ranked #2 in the nation for potential to network with the majority of the network through Cox.

Also if you receive the President’s Scholar, you gain access to the PS network. The PS network is just fantastic. many of them go on to top 10 law schools, get jobs at mckinsey, goldman, etc.

Then there’s TCU in fort worth. I’m mentioning them bc they’re a private school. they’re smu’s nemesis. Only thing that they’re better than smu is football. smu is better than tcu at everything else by far.

if you need anymore info about the president’s scholar program or anything else, feel free to PM me.