I’m a true lifetime longhorn, and a native Austinite, but I did actually live in college station for 3 years in the 90s, and while I cheer against all things Aggie except meat judging, maybe, I do think it would be a good place to go to college. The Corps is not normative or typical. The kids are nice—nicer than UT students— and they are pulling from the same big city high schools that UT pulls from. Also, and you can probably appreciate this, you can go to College Station and be a conservative, or a Christian, and not be mocked or condescended to. Quite apart from sports, most Christians I know see A&M as far preferable to Baylor as a safe, gentle environment to send their kids to college.