<p>This in today’s Dallas Morning News. Looks like for those in Texas, could be facing stiff competition for college admission for several more years down the road. </p>
<p>In every case cited in the article, the student got into college. In fact, it has never been easier in our nation’s history to get into a four-year college, and hundreds of colleges are begging for students. (Paying for it is another matter.)</p>
<p>As for the 10%, there really is no particular reason to address a law that is working, and working effectively, other than suburban parents are unhappy that they can no longer buy their way in. (that might be enough)</p>
<p>(Dallas Baptist has an ACt 25/75% of 19-23. She must have really liked it!)</p>
<p>Harvard, Rice, Dallas Baptist. May seem very incongruent to most parents on CC but I can see where this girl is coming from. First generation student so probably has no college role model nor anyone at home that understands the process to help her. Large public school with somewhat high low income population (Duncanville) and counselors who have large student loads so possibly not greatest college counseling in the world. Only 16 so her college knowledge is probably less than most High School Seniors. Good grades and possibly test scores so teachers and counselors say Harvard and Rice if you want to stay in Texas. But, someone, somewhere says , oh yeah, you need a safety if you don’t want to go to UT-Austin or A&M (she’s in on top 10% rule). Dallas Baptist is in the neighborhood, probably knows people who go there, and they may have wooed her with all kinds of support given someone thought she was Harvard/Rice material. So, given her previous exposure to college most probably comes from friends who may already be at Dallas Baptist, this probably seems like a very logical acceptance to her given her “dream” has been crushed.</p>
<p>zixxa, it was very misinformed dream. But the story was supposedly about how tough it is out there. Not about 1st generation poorly advised kids with a crappy list. The kid could have had any number of great opps (don’t know her scores or EC’s) at schools ranked somewhere in the top 100. Austin College? Southwestern? Trinity U? Where were they?</p>
<p>Uber-reach.
Uber-reach.
Open Admissions. </p>
<p>Did we even think about matches or even less stratospheric reaches? Rice is tough for Texans outside Houston. They turn down our best students most years. They do take our ballplayers from time to time. ;)</p>
<p>Around May 4th, NACAC will publish a large list of colleges still seeking students. Many of them will be in Texas, and even have scholarships to give out. Lots of colleges are overbuilt - in fact, it is likely that the growth in college building has well-outstripped the supply of students, which is why many will go under for lack of warm bodies.</p>
<p>It’s getting tougher to get into other flagship U’s, including Wisconsin. I read the article- some good advice from the newspaper. It is amazing sometimes to hear students with excellent credentials explain their mediocre college choices. Many people, especially in blue collar environments, don’t understand the college admissions process or differences between schools. I gave up trying to educate people who presumed my gifted son would get into any school he applied to and those who settled for the easiest state U instead of the flagship U or at least one of the top state U’s. If I ruled the world (and of course I do in my fantasy life) the top students would be at the top schools and so forth, regardless of all those realities that determine our lives.</p>
<p>Meanwhile all those non-flagships get better and better, and the distance between them and the flagships is reduced (at least on the undergraduate level.)</p>
<p>Actually, Dallas Baptist has only a 50% or so admissions rate. Moreover, it has a 59% yield, which puts in in Ivy territory, well ahead of Rice.</p>
<p>mini, there have probably been a few or even several over the years but… they ain’t from around here. The kids I know who have gone to DBU have been good kids but not top 10% kids. </p>
<p>Yes, an odd list… where were the medium state schools or the selective privates? I think this kid never got introduced to what could have been some good choices.<br>
So - how do we get this knowledge to the kids like these?
Send a txt to them all, like when the school cancels class for ice storms?</p>
<p>I didn’t say it was a bad choice. Did someone else? I was pondering how it got on the list at all. What was the criteria established for the list. Small? Research? Christian? Conservative? Liberal? Merit aid? Close to home? Great parties? Number of letters in the name? </p>
<p>I mean let’s assume someone told me they were looking at cars to buy for themselves, and mentioned that they had it down to 3. If they could get the payments right a Ferrari, if not a Porsche, and if they didn’t get either of those a Toyota Corrolla. That Toyota is not a bad car but how did he come up with that list?Top speed? lateral G-forces ? Price? Same thing. </p>
<p>It’s the thought process of defining the list I find curious.</p>