What was your second choice school?

by **michiganstang** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:29 pm

My list back in the day was:

1) Oberlin Conservatory
1a) SMU
3) Western Michigan (Super-Secret Backup School)

Growing up were I did (Michigan

) I did not know much about SMU. My first real exposure to the school was at college fair night in high school - I decided I really needed to apply to a third school and saw the SMU booth and thought - "hey, I'm Methodist, I should check it out." I found out about the great music department and that SMU had/has one of the best horn teachers around (I majored in (french) horn and (music) composition).

What the choice really came down to though - with the scholarships being offered by both Oberlin and SMU about the same - was that Oberlin was three hours drive from home and in a cornfield and SMU wasn't - it was time for something new! A bit of a gamble on my part I guess, as the first day of orientation was my first trip to SMU, Dallas, or Texas. :shock:

I have to say though - the business leaders in my home town (I was the pianist for the local rotary club) were quite impressed I was attending SMU. THAT generation knows about our school, even in Michigan.

by **Big10Ponyfan** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:36 pm

Michiganstang,
Are you going to the Horseshoe on Nov. 18 or doing a big watching party?

by **FordtoTolbert** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:50 pm

..he said tcu fans and alums will have a never ending, life long inferiority complex when compared to SMU, and their only remote "gotcha", will be some short lived "football success" v. SMU...

by **MrMustang1965** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:51 pm

1) SMU
2) Sam Houston State University
3) North Texas State University
4) Southwest Texas State University
5) Stephen F. Austin State University
6) Texas A&M University (I know...wtf was I thinking? :roll:

)

by **FordtoTolbert** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:55 pm

...this thread is starting to bore me, and I participated......but, aren't we all just absolutely wonderful?!? BEAT HU!

by **Terry Webster** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:19 pm

SMU
Trinity (San Antonio)
Austin College

by **Mustangs35SMU** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:17 pm

MrMustang1965 wrote:5) Stephen F. Austin State University

by **alamocitystang** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:35 pm

Sorry, i know this is getting old, but I wanted to put mine up here.

1)TAMU
2)SMU
3)UTD

I stayed in Dallas for a girlfriend...that was a dumb decision, but I'm glad I went to SMU over A&M. If I could do it again this would be how it went:

SMU
UT
UH (thought I'd show the coogs some love before we destroy them Saturday)

by **J.T.supporta** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:06 pm

Mine were

SMU
TCU
UTEP
Baylor
Mizzou
Nebraska

by **White Helmet** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:24 am

SMU
Rice
Washington U at St Louis
Baylor
Accepted to all came down to money and not wanting to be contorlled by the baptists. And SMU was already started on their new life science building.

by **michiganstang** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 7:29 am

Big10Ponyfan wrote:Michiganstang,
Are you going to the Horseshoe on Nov. 18 or doing a big watching party?

Well...I wish I was going to the (filled-in) Horseshoe...but since I moved halfway around the world last August, it's not to be...I'll try a modest watching party over brunch! I love watching football over breakfast, but really, getting up at 6 am or earlier to watch afternoon games stinks.

by **Dukie** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:43 am

1) Duke
2) SMU
3) Georgetown
4) Washington & Lee

by **EmeraldCityPony** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:59 am

1. SMU
2. Rice
3. TCU
4. Yale
5. UT

Didn't get accepted to Rice & Yale, and glad I didn't.

by **lugus830** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:13 am

Applied to SMU, Texas, and A&M. Wanted to go in state for business. Got in to all three, but SMU had the best campus by far. Texas didn't feel like a campus and A&M was nothing but a campus. Cost a little more, however.

by **tristatecoog** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:48 am

I believe SMU has more out of state students than all other Texas universities except Rice. Sound right?

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