smu vs. ut

Who cares about a post from 2013?

A lot do get into UT but their families have gone to SMU for generations. The business connections that they make are much more valuable if they want to live in Dallas. SMU alums hire SMU grads and then they all live in Highland Park or the lesser, University Park. There's much more diversity in the UT sororities than at SMU. There are many more middle class smart girls in UT sororities than at SMU. You're more of a big fish in a small, exclusive, members-only pond at SMU.

I don't know about that. Maybe 30 years ago. Today companies know that UT delivers the best --- not SMU. Good try though.

Even A&M graduates are sought after much more than SMU grads in Dallas because of the quality of the students. Hard work ethic also.

SMU alums hire SMU grads. It's not about the value of the degree, it's about the connections. Your dad was a frat brother with them at SMU and they're going to hire you over someone who went to UT.

if you want to spend your life in the Dallas cult (and it's not like UT doesn't have these networks), then SMU is great. Otherwise, you'd be better served going to UT and at least equally if not better served by A&M.

actually smu has been closing the gap on us in the last few years - we are ranking pretty close together. UT cost about half, so that is one big factor. i heard SMU's incoming SAT is higher than ours this last year, and ranking is neck and neck - so the academics and student quality is pretty similar. Greek life is great at both.

SMU is ranked closer to Georgia or A&M than UT. They aren't that far from us in a lot of national rankings, but as far as international recognition we're pretty well ahead. Plus we get real football. Nothing wrong with SMU, good school, great Greek school, but I don't know why anyone would be confused over choosing UT over SMU. Look at Laura Bush.

Actually a&M is well behind SMU in academics - and Georgia is not even on the list. Only the Aggie cult thinks otherwise and then they have no facts to prove it. also SMU is just as hard to get into - didn't use to be the case but now it is. Their incoming SAT average is the same average as ours. Compare USNWR and Forbes lists - they are right behind us. Laura Bush went to SMU so not so sure what that comment means. I love UT, but we aren't the only great school in the state. Greek scene at A&M is dull dull dull.

How about you check out a list dummy?

How about you check out a list dummy?

how about you check out a list? Try U.S. news and world report college rankings - that is the one the provost and deans use to rank themselves.

US News and World Report: Georgia 56, SMU 58, A&M 65. Unless you're agreeing with me that they're all pretty similarly ranked, then you accidentally proved my point. Also @SMU troll meant to say Jenna Bush, though Laura got her master's degree at UT as well. My point was that the president's kid who was a legacy for SMU choose UT over it, just wrote the wrong name. The only list SMU outranks Georgia, which you referred to as completely unmentionable with SMU, was on Forbes (who's list is bizarre). It was 9 higher on Forbes than Georgia, 170ish lower on Washington Monthly (who had A&M at 2) and 2 lower on US News which is basically the authority. SMU didn't even get ranked on all the international ones like the other two.

Yep that's true. SMU is more tight knit and more about who you know. Very snobby also

Companies don't think like that. They look for a person that excelled in school no matter what group they were in. You sound very shallow to me.

Did you say Fiji/SAE/SigEP from UT? SigEps are losing their luster. Do you even go here?

SMU alums will hire SMU grads over an UT grad 9 times out of 10, unless the UT grad is dating his daughter or son and needs a leg up. It's a close knit ol' boys club, much more so than UT.

more power to you then.

Sigep isn't losing their "luster" at UT. Sounds like you go to SMU where Sigep literally lost their luster there.

Sig Ep and Kappa Sig at UT are still superior to the top chapters at SMU probably.

If you're smart enough to get into UT and have decent test scores chances are you can get a big scholarship to SMU. Not to mention Greeks tend to be among the wealthier people at UT, so it's not just about money.

You say UT has more connections than SMU, yet mostly all the people in the elite social clubs in Dallas and the country clubs are SMU alums. "The Good Ol' Boys" Network runs deep with SMU alums.

Maybe SMU beats UT if you're living in Dallas the rest of your life, otherwise not so much.

come on....hundreds of kids turn down UT for SMU every year, just as hundreds turn down SMU for UT. Its the only private texas school that is both a good school and fun. Don't be so myopic. Their Greek is as good as ours, and they are right with us in academics. Its really apples and oranges - great huge university or medium university. also SMU is about 60% out of state - so not really the same thing as UT with 90% in state.

This guy is right. Check the rankings and report even ONE where SMU is higher. It doesn't exist.