re: Competition for College Admissions in Texas is unreal

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Admittedly, I was harsh. My fault. I hope you accept my apology.

But it sounds like your daughter would do well at any university if she was raised right. I’m sorry she didn’t get into a State school in Texas.

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What a horribly condescending post holy crap

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What a horribly condescending post holy crap

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Maybe the DIPAs have hit me harder than I realized because I wasn’t meaning to be condescending at all.

I already told you she is accepted into CAP and Blinn Team, which is basically deferred admission if you go do your year at UTSA or Blinn

She also got Honors at UTD, Houston
She is in at Azusa Pacific, SMU and LSU

Waiting on word from Tulane

I hope we raised her right, she seems like a good person to me but I am biased

This isn’t really what any of us want, but need to take what we are given around here.

Both of my kids went to catholic school in Lafayette all the way through junior high. They would have gone to ESA or STM if we had not moved

The math in their junior high background hurt them in HS. They just weren’t prepared. Both took calculus as seniors but they both took the ACT multiple times before calculus. That hurt them on the test. Math was their only sub 30 scores, which is why they were both 30/31 ACT cumulative. They both decided to stop at 30/31 and not take the test any more and just start the application process


If she does elect to go CAP at UTSA she has to commmit to the spot by Feb 16. It is a brutal process for a 17 yr old to know what you want to major in right off the bat.

To apply to Texas and TAMU you apply directly to the College. For Texas she applied to Public relations, for TAMU she applied to Biology (with her sights on Med/PA School)

Should reminder her she can always move here after school. Hard to explain to 18yo I’m sure but it really isn’t the traditional college social experience.

Hell she may run in to a drunk frick in a nascar jacket smoking menthol cigarettes at what is considered a hip place that all her peoples are going to.

Sounds about right. My sister had two classmates commit suicide because of the process. One for not getting in to Texas, one for not being able to transfer in to Texas after a year at UTSA or something.

Hardest part is watching these lazy arse do nothings get 10,000 dollar tax returns, free cable, vouchers for private school, subsidized housing while we pay all the fricking bills and struggle to put our kids through college and earn a living. I don't care if you are gay, black, Transgender, etc. as long a you contribute you are good in my book.

My daughter started college last month she is just doing junior college and then will transfer to one of the universities out here. I went that route. My first route to the University of Florida and the materials engineering program was foiled after my ex got pregnant with my first child.