Man all you have is envy envy envy. Terrible.
I do tell them…and they agree with me.
Almost everyone I talk to choose NOT to live on campus
NOT to be involved in any organization while a student
NOT to attend a single athletic event
NOT to mentor younger students
Those type of alums are 9 out of every 10 I meet
They literally do NOT CARE
In fact many don’t own a sing t-shirt or cap with UH on it.
I tell them all the time because there are so many of them
no…you just want to keep us a commuter school
F- That
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Depends on the high school. Not Lamar, Bellaire, Memorial, St. John’s, Kincaid. Too much peer pressure to leave the city and get away from parents.
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He’s clueless…he thinks UH is a #1 destination on everyone’s board
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it’s not just about graduating dude…degree factories churn out graduates.
Universities churn out lifetime family members.
90% in that picture will NEVER step foot onto the UH campus again…ever
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Your hate for UH is so tiring. New name same old poster.
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Ask 1,000 random 2025 high school grads in the local Houston area and see if they had UH as their primary university goal?
I guarantee you won’t get more than 250.
When I applied to other colleges during my high school years, I got accepted to UH, A&M, UT etc.
I chose UH since they gave me the most scholarship money.
I dislike the “traditional student” narrative that continues to get thrown around here, but It’s not so much UH’s fault that UH can’t have the same atmosphere as UT/A&M - it’s more so the way the city of Houston has grown around UH.
UH has not had the support from the city for many decades on top of being in mediocre sports conferences. That has set back the campus decades compared to others. Is it changing? Yes, but very slowly.
The way Houston is set up is that most of the wealthier inner city kids all go to private schools. It’s UT that ends up being their backup.
As for the suburbs, A&M and UT have largely been the target schools with other schools being a mix of UH, SHSU, Tech, SFA, amongst others.
UH is never going to be like an SEC school if that’s what you’re hoping for. UT is an anomaly because they are a college town, with incredibly high ranked programs near Ivy League rankings.
UH has so many obstacles to get around until we become a “destination” school. However, it’s more imperative to make Houston a destination city before the university can be a destination school. Rice has academics alone that attracts above average kids. UH doesn’t have that, at least not yet.
my hate…i think you have it backwards, bub.
You: Want 90% of our enrollment to graduate but never be involved with the University again
Me: Want 90% of our enrollment to want to be here AND want to be connected to their alma mater after they graduate
Thank GOD Dr. Khator rejects your vision
YOU are delusional when it comes to the reputation of the University of Houston WE are trying to fix that.
Do you see now YOU are on the side that hates UH?
Is it really though? Austin is too big to be a college “town”.
If we want to cut down on potential UH students who won’t support athletics, then put lots of questions about sports on their application.
You can tell who would be future football or basketball supporters real quick.
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I’m mainly speaking historically.
Austin is turning into Dallas, but yes, Austin has predominantly been centered around UT which is why it’s gotten its “keep Austin weird/liberal” label for so long.
But if you look at the development of Austin, many people moving their are flocking to its suburbs turning Austin into less of a college town.
That said, it will still revolve around UT for years to come. UT will never let Austin be a pro sports town.
When you think of Austin, you think of UT. Austin has continued to try and label itself a tech capital, but the turnover of startups there is so high that it will never get over that hump to become a new Silicon Valley.
In fact, Houston has a much better chance of becoming a tech hub due to the energy infrastructure available close by for data centers.
There is absolutely zero reasons UH can’t market themselves as Utv2.0 to out of state students that want to go away to school in Texas, attend a P4 campus and be in an exciting new place…instead we advertise ourselves to metro Houstonians who have us as their 5th choice or just want to commute to school. The University can 100% fix that
There are a dozen+ P4 University in urban areas.
WE desperately need to develop a University District adjacent to campus (not one random off campus apartment…i’m talking about a mixed use district)…for those of us that have visited other P4 universities, you know what I’m talking about
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I go to plenty of away games to know the area surrounding the other universities especially the ones in urban areas from our AAC days.
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UT has an acceptance rate of 20%, that means, the landscape is peppered with people going to college as their back up. So f’n what, they still chose UH to attend. Which has the same acceptance rate as ATM and Tech. That means UH students could have easily gotten into either of those schools but chose UH. I think you dotes are projecting your situation on other students, when in reality, those students want to be here.
There’s a lot of reasons why UH will never be UT 2.0.
Austin alone has a much better reputation for welcoming out of state kids than Houston does.
Houston is not a college town and never had that reputation. It could change, but Houston will always be a working-man’s town.
UT has UH beat in almost every category other than being located in a major job center, which is dominated by oil and gas, which many younger kids don’t want to go into anymore.
Academics, athletics, social life, off campus housing proximity - UT has UH beat in every category
I think UH has potential to be a special campus, but it will need that support of Houston as a city.
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Let UT be UT, let UH be UH. If you wanted to go to a UT type school, you should have gone there.
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it’s not just sports…it’s WANTING TO be involved during and after your days at the University of Houston.
What % of UH grads spend at least 10 hours back on campus, after graduating…let alone give back anything to UH? I’d say a very small %
BS, you only post because of the poor attendance. Look at the title of this thread!