Texas A&M vs. UT: which school is a better fit?

vultureair
Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:46:00 +0000

Gstein,

Your overly defensive attitude in regards to A&M actually supports my point. I don’t really have that much against A&M, all I said was that the school wasn’t a good fit for me and I gave some examples as to why.

Yet you’re trying to impale me because I’m not “stepping in line” with your opinion in regards to A&M. That’s the kind of prevalent attitude that pushed me away from liking the school as much as I wanted to.



vultureair, I feel like I’ve read that same exact post somewhere else on these boards. I’m sure if I searched I could find it, because I remember responding to it. Did you create a new username to repeat your same opinion?



Considering that several of my friends at A&M said the same things to me in regards to the school, it doesn’t surprise me that someone else would say the same things on here. The only reason I had the balls to say what I did is because I talked to several friends from class and even from work and they agreed with me on several of the points I made above. So I knew I wasn’t the constant there.



A&M is roughly 50% female, meaning roughly 25,000 students attend who are female. The chances that you met even 10% of the female student population at A&M are very slim, so speaking as if you can mold them all in to a couple categories that are all similar is pretty ignorant.



Actually, if you took Stat 302 or 303 and/or worked in the actuarial sciences like I do, you would know that this is false. It’s well known and accepted that if you take a large enough sample size, you can draw conclusions about the population, and you don’t need a sample size of 10%. Hell, dude, do you think presidential election polls ask 10% of the U.S. population? Of course not!

Plus I NEVER said I molded “all of them” into my categories above. If you actually graduated from A&M, you really ought to put your degree to use and read what I said. I stated specifically that I could fit most of the girls I met while at A&M into those categories. I never said I could mold every single girls at A&M into them.

If A&M had a much larger variety of girls as you want me to believe, it’s extremely improbable that the majority of the girls I was meeting would fit into very limited, very rare categories. Hell, I just did a search on the A&M network on Facebook for a common girl’s name and let’s see, about two or three out of ten are obviously very religious, one or two out of ten are engaged and can’t be older than 22, a few others are in relationships… I’ve never met any of them yet the results fit very well into my point. Girls I never met yet they are similar to the girls I did meet at A&M.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against that at all. People are free to live their lives however they feel fit. I’m very libertarian about that sort of thing. It’s all about what increases the quality of life for you. But what I’m trying to say is that A&M overall is pretty damn conservative and homogenous and you’re trying to call BS on that… yet I went to a couple of other public universities before transferring to A&M and A&M is the only school in which I was getting wedding announcements from students who hadn’t even graduated yet. Don’t try to tell me that A&M is very diverse and not conservative… I’m not the only one who’s going to disagree with that.



I’ve met dumb, smart, conservative, liberal, lesbian, straight, “easy”, sheltered, clingy, independent, black, white, asian, hispanic, american indian, indian, tall, short, fat, skinny women at A&M.



So have I. Many of my friends fit in that list. Let’s go through the list, shall we?

Dumb – I guess you could fit most of the sorority girls I met here (although I did know two who weren’t stupid.) Knew plenty of them, did not care to talk to many of them.
Smart – of course, but out of the smart people I met at A&M, not as many I felt I could have real intellectual conversations with. I knew A LOT of kids at A&M who I would say were smart, but had too much of a herd mentality or weren’t really “smart” outside of the textbooks. I knew plenty of “Dilbert” engineering majors. That said, by far the biggest advantage I had at A&M was that the kids were generally smarter than anywhere else I had been to before, which I appreciated.
Conservative – the majority of A&M
Liberal – a couple of friends of mine were pretty liberal but they were politically libertarian. Very interesting to talk to, yet they were definitely in a minority.
Lesbian – I knew one lesbian for sure at A&M and another one was a bisexual who I’ll include as well. The lesbian was actually in the closet… she admitted it to me, not sure why. Guess she thought I wouldn’t be judgemental. She complained about how she had to keep it to herself because A&M was so conservative and she had a lot of friends she didn’t think would be very understanding. The bi transferred out.
Straight – majority of A&M
Easy – yeah, I knew a few dorm sluts but overall the girls at A&M, when compared to Texas State or Tech, are anything but easy
Sheltered – plenty of those at A&M
Clingy – plenty of those at A&M
Independent – not as many as clingy
Black – several of my friends here were black but by far a minority here
White – vast majority
Asian – sizable minority, mostly international students in engineering
Hispanic – I would actually say that Asians are the largest minority at A&M but I may be wrong. If I’m wrong, Hispanics are perhaps the largest minority
American Indian – few and very far between
Tall and short – Irrelevant
Fat – I can honestly say not too many at A&M are fat
Skinny women – about the norm at A&M

But here’s the problem with your statement: you imply that A&M is very diverse in all of these, which would also have to imply that they are equally weighted, otherwise you don’t have a point. However, that’s not the case. The majority of A&M are white and conservative, no doubt about that. But the rest are split into a small minority.

You’re trying to make a point about A&M being diverse apparently but you’re leaving out that your groupings are by far NOT equal. You have two or three that are MUCH larger than the rest. So I don’t see what you’re trying to go at here.

If you’re trying to tell me that yes, there are a diverse group of people like above, then I agree. But the problem is that because they are not equally weighted, it is a hell of a lot harder to find and meet these “diverse” people that it would be at other, large universities that are less one-sided. Being diverse like you mentioned above means having more equal slices of pie.

When I put in a couple of common names into Facebook at a diverse school, I’m not going to get results that are so homogenous and common to people I did know.



I’m not sure if you went to school when A&M was an all mens’ school, but I’ve seen all types of women here… maybe you never got out much?



Again, you’re leaving out the fact that “all types of women” meaning diverse doesn’t mean all types are distributed equally. I was involved with several student organizations, study groups for my major, went to NG A lot more than I’d admit… I’d say that I got out plenty.



I find your whole post ill-informed and flat out moronic.



And I find it amusing that I’m actually backing up my points with observations and experiences whereas you’re being immature and childish by resorting to name calling. I could do the same but it doesn’t prove anything or make for any sort of discussion.



Sure I’ve met people that fit into your stereotypes of people at A&M, but believe it or not, I’ve met those same type of people at Baylor, Texas, and Texas Tech.



Once again, you fail to comprehend that the student body at every school is not going to be equally distributed. I’m sure that the exact same types of people can be found at UC Berkeley as well, but that doesn’t mean Berkeley is as conservative as A&M.



I don’t even want to respond to the other comments. They are so easily one-sided against A&M all you need to do is a quick google search to refute them.



Then perhaps you should return your degree back to A&M because it’s apparent that you don’t care enough to use any sort of intellectual ability… you just want to resort to name calling like a child.



Next time you create a new username, at least make it a worthwhile post.



It must suck to be so narrow minded that you fail to realize that more than one person might actually have a differing viewpoint than you. As far as being a worthwhile post, you responded to it, didn’t you?

If you loved A&M, that’s great, but don’t try to imply that there’s anything wrong with anyone else who didn’t have the same experience. I said that A&M wasn’t a good fit for me, so be a big boy and suck it up that not everyone is like you. I obviously wasn’t right for A&M but I sucked it up and got the most out of my experience without *****ing about it all day while I was there. Maybe you could learn something from that.