Tag Archives: Texas

Texas Tech University System

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Compass
Texas Tech University

NAME: Texas Tech University System   SCHOOLS: College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, College of Architecture, College of Arts & Sciences, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, College of Education, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, Honors College, College of Human Sciences, College of Mass Communications, College of Visual & Performing Arts, University College   MEDIAN SAT SCORE: ~1213 (assured admissions for students from accredited high schools) otherwise min. 1500   MEDIAN ACT SCORE: ~27 (assured admissions for students from accredited high schools)   CLASS RANK: No min. percentage for top 10 high school graduating classes   … Continue reading →

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University of Houston

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Compass
University of Houston

Can’t stop, won’t stop – we here at College Compass Campus Profiles simply must get you up to speed on U of H. NAME: University of Houston SCHOOLS: Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, C.T. Bauer College of Business, College of Education, Cullen College of Engineering, Honors College, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, UH Law Center, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, College of Optometry, College of Pharmacy, Graduate College of Social Work, College of Technology MEDIAN SAT SCORE: ~1620 For more detailed standardized test admissions criteria at UH, … Continue reading →

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Texas A&M College Station

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Compass
Texas A&M College Station

Not quite sure what it means to Gig ‘Em? Figure it out in four years at Texas A&M, home of the Aggies. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… College Compass Campus Profiles! NAME: Texas A&M – College Station SCHOOLS: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Mays Business School, Education and Human Development, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Geosciences, Liberal Arts, Science, Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. MEDIAN SAT SCORE: ~1740 MEDIAN ACT SCORE: ~30 CLASS RANK: Must be in top 25% of class CAMPUS: 5,200 acres NUMBER OF FRIENDS YOU CAN MAKE: 36,953 … Continue reading →

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Southern Methodist University

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Compass
SMU

Aw,  how we missed you, loyal readers! Welcome back to another installment of College Compass Campus Profiles! NAME: Southern Methodist University SCHOOLS:  Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Meadows School of the Arts, Cox School of Business , Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, Dedman School of Law, Perkins School of Theology, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development MEDIAN SAT SCORE: ~1860 MEDIAN ACT SCORE: ~27 CLASS RANK: N/A CAMPUS: 210 acres NUMBER OF FRIENDS YOU CAN MAKE: 6,000 (4,693 graduates) WHERE YOU WILL LIVE:  Boaz, Cockrell-McIntosh, Daniel House, Hawk, Martin, Mary Hay, McElvaney, Moore, Morrison-McGinnis, Perkins, … Continue reading →

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Rice University

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Compass
Rice University

The founding of Rice reads like a game of Clue – but in this case, the butler most certainly did it! Since then, Rice has gone on to shed its unsavory beginnings to become a premiere academic institution, earning the nickname the Harvard of the South. Well, with a nickname like that, College Compass Campus Profiles can only say one thing: Kudos! NAME: Rice University SCHOOLS: Susanne M. Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, George R. Brown School of Engineering, School of Humanities, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The Shepherd School of Music, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, School of … Continue reading →

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Dual Credit? Dual Pain

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Compass
Dual Credit May Be More Trouble Than It's Worth

If you attend high school in Texas, you’ve probably heard of dual credit. If you’re smart, you probably have teachers falling over their own feet trying to convince you that you should be doing all the dual credit you can. You probably will learn pretty fast that it’s a huge pain. In case you haven’t heard of it, dual credit is a program that gives college credit to high school students. You don’t even have to take a hard test at the end! Instead, you take a hard test at the beginning. How wonderful, logical, and abundantly useful. To be … Continue reading →

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Campus Profile – University of Texas: Austin

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Compass
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Welcome, dear readers, to the first installment of our 2,363 part series: Campus Profiles. You have plenty of work to do during the school week, but searching for a good college is important.  How will you find the time to search?  How about letting us pick up some of the slack for you? Check out College Compass every Wednesday for another school profile. This week, we start off big. And we mean, real B-I-G, with the Longhorns of the University of Texas at Austin. __________________________________________________________________________________ SCHOOL:  University of Texas: Austin   MEDIAN SAT SCORE:  About 1900   MEDIAN ACT SCORE:  … Continue reading →

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