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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (52747)	6/29/2000 2:32:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

OH dear!!! I'm laughing, but sympathetically. Here you are with this very involved husband while I have one who could care less. He walked out of the room if I tried to watch any Elian coverage. He did the same thing with the OJ trial. UT-Austin has both good and bad aspects. Austin is a neat city, (and yes- it still has a very eclectic music scene downtown) but the university is HUGE. 48000 students! It would be overwhelming to someone like Ammo. I thought he might change his mind about it after spending a few days at the theatre there during the state UIL comp. but he didn't. Parking is awful, living arrangements difficult. I also have a problem with their admissions policies. I don't know if this is done in other states, but Texas has a policy of automatically accepting anyone who graduates int the top 10% of their class to its public universities. Since both A&M and UT are the ones in demand, this causes a huge discrepancy in the level of student that gets in. Where AMmo's ACT and SATs are very good, (he surprised us by actually making the Merit consideration level) his class rank is WELL below 10%. I've watched a lot of CW's friends go through this. Kids from school districts- small, rural, minority- are automatically accepted becuase of this 10% policy, (and wind up really struggling, in remedial courses, or flunking out or quitting) while kids with much higher qualifications get rejected. The secret at UT is in getting into the special Schools- communication, theatre, engineering, architecture, but that can be very hard to do. This may be the purpose, the goal of a state U.- and if so, well, ok, But I don't like it. Perhaps it was seen as a measure for levelling the field? I think it penalizes quality students for attending a highly competitive high school. Ammo has a low A average- in a lot of schools he'd be much higher in rank than he is at Carroll where kids work very hard to manipulate their GPAs (taking easy courses, avoiding the tough honors). Mine never did, and maybe we were naive not to do so. But then, life is never simple or fair. And it usually works out.