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Post by aggie2039 on Apr 24, 2016 10:44:12 GMT -5
That is not what Dooms and I were talking about Reread and get back to me I get what your saying Saabman, but you also have to remember that we are coming at this issue from 2 different sides. Your coming at it from the college side mostly. I've always been involved from the high school side. Any parent you talk to is probably already doing exactly what you talked about. The parents I talk to, only half are doing what you talked about. Just two different experiences. We agree on how they should be making the decision. Well stated...I endorse this message.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Apr 24, 2016 12:05:43 GMT -5
i totally agree with dooms. i wouldn't recommend a&t to anybody solely because a&t is my alma mater. if i didn't feel a&t was providing a very good education for students, i would not recommend a&t.
dooms also brought up a very good example. my ex-wife is an aggie who graduated a year after i did. she majored in nursing and did pretty well upon graduation, passed the bar and everything, has never had any trouble finding work because nurses are in high demand. however, her story isn't typical of most nursing majors at a&t during that era. the school was struggling to get its students to pass the bar and its accreditation was in jeopardy back then. if a high school grad was looking to major in nursing, i would not have recommended a&t at that time. don't know how the nursing school is doing nowadays, but in the late 70's/early 80's, it struggled to just keep the doors open.
however, if you're interested in engineering, technology, agriculture, business, or accounting amongst other majors, i'll endorse a&t any day. but as i like to label myself, i call it the way that i see it, not the way i would like to see it. i would not recommend a&t to anybody if i honestly didn't believe it was best suited for that individual.
hail, i exposed the living daylights out of my own daughter to a&t and hoped that she might choose to attend. but i understood why she chose elsewhere (uncg) because my daughter was an outstanding basketball player and she graduated high school about the same time that coach bibbs had just accepted a&t's job. at that time, a&t's women team was struggling "mightily", single digit near winless seasons at that time. so i didn't try to twist my daughter's arm to attend a&t because i knew how passionately she loved to win. she had just won "back-to-back" maryland state high school championships and her aau team was "top 4" in the nation. she would not have been happy struggling with a losing program, so i easily respected her decision to go elsewhere...
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Post by aggie2039 on Apr 24, 2016 12:17:45 GMT -5
OSA, does your daughter attend A&T homecomings?
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 24, 2016 21:21:24 GMT -5
Great input from both Dooms and OSA......I just wanted to make sure we can be just as critical of ourselves as we can be of others when we're the ones under the magnifying glass.
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Post by Aggie Monster on Apr 25, 2016 9:06:57 GMT -5
Personally, I'd send my daughter elsewhere. Point blank, my family is more important than my alma mater. If my alma mater, as much as I love it, is unable to properly prepare my child for his or her future, then my child isn't going to attend my alma mater. There you go!
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Post by Aggie Monster on Apr 25, 2016 9:08:56 GMT -5
Like Dooms said. Thats an easy hypothetical. Family over everything. She doesn't go to A&T.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Apr 26, 2016 12:32:56 GMT -5
OSA, does your daughter attend A&T homecomings? she did as an undergrad, but not since then. she got her masters degree from uncg while playing there because she was granted a medical redshirt one year due to an acl injury. but then she moved back home to maryland where she now lives. rarely goes back to greensboro nowadays... Sent from my SCH-I545 using proboards
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Apr 30, 2016 16:22:18 GMT -5
Lil broke ole SCSU has had 2 players drafted to the NFL thus far.......I bet ole dude and his parents are looking at SCSU EVEN MORE!!!
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Post by Aggie Monster on May 2, 2016 8:28:50 GMT -5
Lil broke ole SCSU has had 2 players drafted to the NFL thus far.......I bet ole dude and his parents are looking at SCSU EVEN MORE!!! I agree with you there, the guy actually shared on his facebook page the article of the guy getting drafted. I just SMH. NFL dreams trumps everything I guess.
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