Texas A & M University Waxes UT El Paso in Retention League Playoffs!

A: TAMU College Station, Texas. "A leader in student retention & graduation rates."

1) More than 90% of fall 2003 freshmen returned for their sophomore year.

2) 76% of fall 1998 freshmen graduated within six years.

a) State average is 45%.

b) But! Commercial Hood and Practicing Ho-dominated University of Texas at El Paso can barely maintain a 26% freshman graduation rate within six years.

c) This means upwards of 73% of UTEP students are alternately pushed and harrassed into failure, within any given six year period.

B: TAMU College Station, Texas. "Ranked by Hispanic Magazine as one of the Top 25 colleges for Latinos."

www.tamu.edu/admissions or http://www.applytexas.org

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Parental Question:

Which of these two(2) Texas-certified Institutions of Higher Learning do you think would do right by your child?


TAMU, or the University of Texas at El Paso as the academic eqivalent of an ENRON of Texas-style continuing criminal enterprise?


Why?



Material above adapted from add on page five(5) of the December, 2005 issue of the Diocesan newspaper, the "Rio Grande Catholic." Neither the Diocese of El Paso, nor TAMU is in any way, shape or form responsible for our adaptation.