Yes…and in my will.
Im hoping everyone here is leaving something, from their estate, to their beloved alma mater so that OUR University can grow for future generations
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I think a destination school is one that is picked out of high school.
“Destination schools” are really hard to describe precisely, though. Students from the Metroplex often “default into” Tech in the same way Houston area kids do for UH. A&M has a hell of a lot of UT rejects, and UT has a lot of students who’d rather be at an Ivy or at Rice or UCLA or Berkeley or whatever.
Do students who CAP into UT from a system school not count? What about students who get into A&M through Blinn TEAM? How are those fundamentally different from the students who go to HCC or San Jac or Lone Star fully intending to transfer to UH thereafter?
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UT/A&M grads will do anything to get their kids to their alma mater.
Whether it be the UT satellite or Blinn route if they do not get accepted straight from high school.
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I’m not sure how true that actually is. UT doesn’t practice legacy admissions, and they don’t seem to have data available on how many are second-or-more generation Longhorns, but with as selective as UT has gotten, and the fact that they don’t practice legacy admissions, I’d be surprised if legacy students comprise a very substantial part of their student body. I think it’s more likely that the best school UT/A&M alumni happened to get into is also often the best school their kids happened to get into.
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I would say the cap doesn’t count because their goal is to reach UT as their destination. Same with Blinn. A. Lot of the HCC Lonestar kids do plan on UH but also a lot oppressed just getting their basics out of the way to go elsewhere.
…Houston area kids whose parents are neutral about a college choice send them to the public city school nearby
Parents that understand “the destination school” term, send them to UT, TAMU, TT or SEC schools.
For us to be a “Destination School” we’d have to start appearing on High schoolers TOP 5 desired list in ALL the major metros in texas + pull more from out of state and develop a reputation out of state.
Texas Tech checks that box…they pull a lot of Houston area kids.
We are no where close to that yet…we just aren’t.
We are a fall back, a safety school, or an unknown entity to parents with first generation students…we are NOT a destination school where a rejection letter = tears from the whole family.
You know, the ones that dress up their
Newborns in their “destination school choice” for their photo shoot when they are days or weeks old
Hence, the limited connection before/ during/ after our alums/students spend time at the University of Houston.
To add insult to injury, many encourage their children, or other high school students they know, to attend a real destination school university.
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Have you met anyone who had a grandparent, parent, and son/daughter who graduated from UH 3 generations in a row?
I have yet to meet someone who had 3 straight generations at UH.
I have met a fair share from UT/A&M though.
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Can anyone name a single person who literally broke down in tears from either getting an A) an acceptance letter or a B) a rejection letter from the University of Houston…as if that connection was that important to them?
Those are the type of school high school’s list in their top 5 Destination List. Ones they really want to be a part of…not schools that warrant an apathetic ho hum reaction
We aren’t a young University anymore…we should have many of those types by now
No flex but I’m a 3rd gen Coog on both sides of my family. My mom and her dad both graduated and my dad and his mom both graduated from UH.
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Hogwash. Parents want their kids to go to the best school that will prepare them for the kids career and life. Is it satisfying if the kids go to the same school as the parents? Sure.
For parents who are UT and aTm alumni, their kids getting into those schools is primarily the fact that they will get a better education.
Parents, for the most part, don’t “send” their kids anywhere. Kids choose. Neither UH nor Texas Tech is often a first choice. Few kids are turning down UT or A&M to go to Tech. I know plenty of kids from A&M households that went to UT and vice-versa. Your entire mental model of how students wind up at universities is imaginary, to the extent I’m unsure whether you’ve ever talked to a High School student about it.
A lot of the kids going to LSU and OU from Houston are doing so because they got rejected from UT and A&M and want a buy-in to big-time college football. Others got hefty scholarships to go to schools that they wouldn’t have otherwise considered. Few 18-year olds are choosing schools because their parents want them to. In any case, they’re choosing those schools based on the exact same criteria that our students weigh for themselves before choosing us.
I don’t go around asking people where their grandparents went to school.
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It’s VERY true based on my aTm relatives.
They grow up dreaming of following in their parents’ footsteps and being Aggies, having grown up going to yell practices and games since before they could walk.
If they can’t get in out of high school, then they make a beeline to Blinn to try and get in as transfers
At least three cousins of mine went to Blinn with that very objective (two succeeded in getting in that way).
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You…in a sentence just proved to me you understand the “academic” benefits but you dont understand the “cultural” benefits of a University choice.
There is a reason why students that go Greek, during their University days make more and have a higher net worth than those that do not.
Yet the vast majority of posters here contunue to celebrate our “unique” niche of being a working man’s college while completely ignoring the cultural and social benefits of your University days that really helps you move up the corporate and social ladder.
I get it…most here want us the be Worker Bee University…i just want Houston Cougar alums to leave Cullen with a skill set greater than that
You vastly overweight the value of a “cultural” choice. The overwhelming majority of students go to the best in-state public they get into and don’t think about anything beyond that. They go Greek because that’s what their friends are doing.
I’m sorry you hate the working class.
Read my post again. I said appear in their top 5 list
Id say the average Texas High School student have these 5 public schools in their top 5 (no order)
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
LSU
Oklahoma
That has to be the most popular top 5 for Texas students
Texas Tech is NOT a better academic University than UH, neither is LSU, neither is TAMU in select colleges.
They 1 MILLION percent have them ahead of UH due to the college experience/cultural side
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That list is hilariously wrong. For the most part, it’s
UT
A&M
Local default third choice (UH/TT/TxSt/UTSA/UTD)
End of list.
Man…you are grossly uniformed.
And for your shrewd " hate the working class" comment
My mom grew up in the projects and my grandfather was a non college educated high school janitor, jerk wad