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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (124025)	8/11/2010 3:00:23 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, You wrote- "Which does not mean Texas does not have some great teachers and professors. It just doesn't have many relative to its population and its wealth." I'm not so sure that Texas higher education is all that worse off relative to CA. CA schools no doubt have TX beat when it comes to having a number of top academic stars, but good luck getting into any of their classes. <g> So I'm guessing if you go undergrad at one of the top five TX schools you'll do as well as in CA as far as getting educated. Grad school may be a different matter. If nothing else it helps your career to have that piece of paper from a CA top fiver. And CA schools have traditionally gotten a lot more money thrown at them for the development of military apps going back something like 60-70 years. That money has really attracted a lot of talent and helped build some world-class labs. I went to the flagship state university is two states, MO and TX. The intellectual level of the Texas students was leaps and bounds above that of the MO students. Of course, in neither school did I associated with the fraternity/sorority crowds where there were ample knuckle draggers, otherwise it probably would have been a toss-up. <g> craig