re: The next time someone says Big 12 is smarter than SEC,

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i wonder how many of these aggie posters thumbing their noise up at other schools actually went to TAMU

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All of us.

WVU fans, we are not saying your degree is worthless or anything. I understand your argument, but allowing everyone in who meets a low requirement like a 2.0 or a 910 SAT score will affect your University's reputation. A&M and Texas admission are extremely, extremely competitive. Texas A&M is considered a "research" institution, which is very different from a "teaching" University. Students at A&M get the opportunity to participate in research projects that usually graduate students do because of their academic ability and the competitive admission they had to go through to get in. Not only that, but TAMU and other "research" institutions teach you how to research and problem solve from day one. Heck, one of my good friends was published as an undergraduate during his junior year, graduated with a degree in Biomedical Science (an extremely difficult degree at A&M, and he came from New York to be a part of it as a first generation Aggie) and is about to graduate from Johns Hopkins after working in a medical research department at Georgetown for two years without a graduate degree.

Point is, competitive admission has a purpose.