I teach at UT, so I've interacted with a lot of students from those schools. All four are good schools. I'll agree that Lakeway is pretty far from Austin, if you care about getting into the central city. Vandegrift and Anderson are solid suburban schools like you'd find in the Detroit or Chicago suburbs. I would be wary of some of the other more competitive suburban schools, because in my experience, they tend to produce grade/test score-obsessed students who cannot think for themselves. AISD also has an excellent magnet high school, LASA, that's very competitive, but the students I've taught from there are actually able to use their very gifted brains.
I highly, highly recommend moving to Austin. The west side is beautiful (beginning of the Hill Country) and very family friendly. Like some others have said, there's a scene for everything here. Whatever you and your family like doing, you'll find other people doing it here.
I certainly hope Coach Rod sees these goals as attainable this year, but doesn't everyone (coaches, players etc.) say competing for a Big Ten Championship is a goal every year? I want to emphasize that I hope you all are correct, and this is a prediction specific to this season. But I think it could easily be interpreted as these are what the normal expectations are. I guess the real question for Coach Rod is were the last two seasons a failure or did he have lower expectations because of the decimated defense, inexperience etc?
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Thank you, Brian. I hope you continue to get better.
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I teach at UT, so I've interacted with a lot of students from those schools. All four are good schools. I'll agree that Lakeway is pretty far from Austin, if you care about getting into the central city. Vandegrift and Anderson are solid suburban schools like you'd find in the Detroit or Chicago suburbs. I would be wary of some of the other more competitive suburban schools, because in my experience, they tend to produce grade/test score-obsessed students who cannot think for themselves. AISD also has an excellent magnet high school, LASA, that's very competitive, but the students I've taught from there are actually able to use their very gifted brains.
I highly, highly recommend moving to Austin. The west side is beautiful (beginning of the Hill Country) and very family friendly. Like some others have said, there's a scene for everything here. Whatever you and your family like doing, you'll find other people doing it here.
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I certainly hope Coach Rod sees these goals as attainable this year, but doesn't everyone (coaches, players etc.) say competing for a Big Ten Championship is a goal every year? I want to emphasize that I hope you all are correct, and this is a prediction specific to this season. But I think it could easily be interpreted as these are what the normal expectations are. I guess the real question for Coach Rod is were the last two seasons a failure or did he have lower expectations because of the decimated defense, inexperience etc?
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