re: Official 2018 Recruiting Thread

I'm not that far out of school, but I believe there are 2 "stigmas" or pre-conceived notions about A&M for kids coming out of school. Now it's important to remember I was Upper Middle class in Ft. Worth so the perspective of the people I grew up with doesn't necessarily match the kids we are recruiting to play football all the time.

1) If you are a Urban/Suburban white kid in a Private/Affluent Public ISD and you want to study Engineering, Business, Pre-Med, it's really, really competitive.

Like really competitive, and the kids who are a shoe-in to make it into A&M are competitive candidates at schools like UVA, Duke, some Ivies, etc.

2) CStat is a nothing town. (For some reason, the stigma is beyond that of Fayetteville, Norman, Tuscaloosa, or Auburn. People think it's really small if they aren't familiar.) And it's filled with a VERY conservative student body that is mostly smart kids, BUT not the smartest kids.

IMO the first one holds largely true. The second is obviously BS if you spend any time around the university.