re: Competition for College Admissions in Texas is unreal

My daughter goes to one of the best high schools in Texas. I believe in the last two years they had 34+ national merit scholars. That is insane.About half her class is in national honors society. It is crazy the amount of work she has in the ap classes. Large Indian presence, they find where the good public schools are located. I don't know if the pressure is worth the reward for being in high school. Most of her classes will be harder then college courses. The kids that do well academically around here have no time for part time jobs like I had in south LA. Everything here is ultra competitive, these kids have stressful childhoods. It will pay off in the future but damn it's nuts.

I'd venture that it is one of Coppell, West Plano, Westwood, Clements, or maybe Dulles. I get the impression that Katy doesn't have nearly the Indian or Far East presence as Sugar Land, West Plano, or the area in Austin that is between Steiner Ranch and Round Rock (I'm not sure if there is even a name for that).

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It will pay off in the future but damn it's nuts.

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Doubtful. Its just like starting over again.

The key to success is to not major in something stupid, spend a lot of money on undergrad, take shite serious first semester, and don’t go in acting entitled on any internship/job. Most college kids screw up one or more of these things.

If you definitely worked much harder in high school to get the same results as college, you went to a subpar college.

Just throwing out there that you did well in college means nothing to me. Some zoo animals could get a college degree in this day and age

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First problem is they calculated a bunch of gpas wrong. A=4 B=3 C=2 You cant have greater than a 4.0 average. Go back to the high school and complain.

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AP classes assign gpas of 5,4,3.

Worth it? How much stress is undergrad worth these days? half of the kids at that high school will major in communication, education, and nursing.

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They aren't

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i won't say "most" but i 100% had harder classes in high school than college

our AP Calculus was much harder than Honors Calc 1 at LSU. didn't even have to think to ace that class

and I wasn't in pre-med, but my pre-med friends said that our Chem 2 (it wasn't AP) allowed them to breeze through like 3 honors Chem classes

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Worth it? How much stress is undergrad worth these days? half of the kids at that high school will major in communication, education, and nursing.

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i agree. i said this earlier but undergrad is devalued these days. it's grad school that matters for the programs/mentors

and withn this context, even a school with an elite reputation/program (like TAMU and engineering) will have diminishing returns compared to an engineering program at most decent schools. i'd imagine a masters in engineering from TAMU, however, is exponentially better and more well received than a masters from that smaller school

It's all about ROI. The price inflation and credential arms race is crazy. I think about Eisenhower's decision to strike "education" out of his "military industrial educational complex" terminology a lot.

College isn't worth it for a lot of degrees at expensive schools. If you're going to be a nurse, paying to go to A&M instead of Lone Star's nursing program is a poor economical decision.

What if I told all of you that as long as you have a STEM degree from an ABET certified school, you have a higher probability of making the same amount of money if not higher than some kid who went to an insane expensive college for a liberal art .

I'll get downvoted but I see it all the time.

You frickers stress over a very small chapter in life.

Once you are in industry, that GPA doesn't matter to anyone, and I sure hope with the zero fricking social experience these poor Indian kids don't have will get them far... NOT.

They become code bots.

Don't let your kid become a bot.

And no one really cares that your kid made the national honors society in a boardroom, or face-to-face customer meeting with the CEO of a large company.