r/SMU

I'm an incoming grad student, and I was wondering what some people have done for parking besides purchasing a parking permit. I don't have enough money to purchase one for this upcoming term and I'm trying to find any alternate solutions. Any info is greatly appreciated!

UNIVERSITY PARK — Every offseason, college football coaches like Rhett Lashlee now face the same challenge.

They have to recruit their own roster all over again.

The transfer portal gives players a chance to chase more playing time, more money or a better fit. And for the best players, there is rarely a shortage of programs willing to make a pitch. 

Over the last five years, SMU has been confident its quarterback Kevin Jennings would be back. 

That's because entering his third and final season as SMU’s starting quarterback, Jennings, 22, has proven to possess a trait that can be just as valuable to a college football program as a powerful arm or elite football IQ. 

Loyalty. 

Programs with bigger names and deeper trophy cases came calling with enticing offers, according to his father, Michael Jennings. 

“It’s been all kinds of money — $5 million, $6 million, lake house, all kinds of stuff thrown at him,” he said. “He never wanted to leave SMU. Most kids would’ve left to make more money. Kev just wanted to make a legacy in Dallas.” 

Read the full feature story on Jennings from The Dallas Morning News' Lia Assimakopoulos here.

Hi y’all! If you’ve been around the Law Quad, you may know La Maison Bleue, the small Japanese-inspired drink shop that was on campus.

Unfortunately, they’ll no longer be at SMU. They’re a small, family-owned business that has been trying to share Japanese culture through their drinks, and I’d really hate for their time at SMU to end without students getting the chance to show whether we actually want them here.

One issue may have been their location in the Law Quad. A lot of students outside that area either didn’t know they were there or didn’t regularly walk by it, so I’m curious whether things could be different if they were somewhere more central on campus.

We are collecting student feedback to see if there’s enough interest to bring to SMU and potentially advocate for La Maison Bleue to return in a more accessible location.

The form takes less than a minute:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Lg9FD08zrUuoXJrfdgUdi6CnkqxDY6NFmkiYGjhtKntUQVQ2OUVWUFFHVkJBVTQ1WUtQQkFQNVczNi4u

Even if you never bought from them before, your feedback is still helpful, especially if you didn’t know they existed because of where they were located.

This isn’t about attacking SMU or anyone involved in the decision. We just want to see if there’s genuine student demand and, if there is, hopefully make a case for giving a small local business another chance. ♡

Some schools claim they have the best freshmen onboard or integration process. What does SMU have?
Thanks

(No pay wall)

I just bought my dining plan, and when I paid for it, it stated, "Your meal plan is now available for immediate use. "

Does this mean I can use it this upcoming week (the week before school), or do I have to wait till the first day of school?

Thank you

I don’t see any of my course material I need to buy?
Anyone else having that issue

I've heard many horror stories about dining hall food at colleges. Hows the food at SMU? Is getting sick from the food common?

is unlv or unr better for a plan to ultimately transfer to an academically higher-ranked institution, maybe something like usc, umiami, smu, uga, nyu, fordham, or tulane?

Apologies if this is considered spam since I posted a few days ago about something similar, but I wanted to ask one more specific question.

I’m a high school senior planning to apply to smu early admission for dedmen with Psychology as my major. I currently have a 4.0 GPA and expect to graduate with roughly 30 total credits.

My coursework includes AP English 3 & 4, AP world history , AP psych, college statistics and Economics, Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy & Physiology, Spanish II & III, economics, sociology, and several credits for fine arts. I’m also doing a psychology/human-services internship and working while in high school.

My problem is my senior schedule. I’m considering not taking Physics/IPC or Forensics so that I can have more time to prepare for the SAT while balancing my job, internship, and advanced/college-level courses. I would still be taking AP English 4, AP Psychology, Statistics, and dual-credit Economics.

For anyone who has experience with SMU admissions or scholarships; would dropping those additional science courses make my application noticeably less competitive for admission or merit scholarships? I’m not trying to take the easiest schedule possible; I’m trying to balance rigor with everything else I’m doing while still keeping my GPA and SAT preparation strong. currently my counselor is advising against it because she said it’ll make me less competitive but when I google it I meet the base requirement for admission and have really strong stats otherwise. I just don’t feel like forensics or IPC is relevant to my major.

I’d really appreciate any insight, especially from current SMU students, alumni, or people who went through the admissions process recently.

Hello, I’m an incoming freshman planning to rush a fraternity. I’m talking to 4 houses at the moment. beta, ATO, SNU and Phi Delta. The price of the dues will certainly influence which fraternity I go to so I was just wondering how much they would be. Thanks!

hey I’m a senior currently who really wants to get into smu. I have a 4.1 gpa for my junior year, I’ve taken 4 ap classes and got all 4s on the tests and I’ve taken 3 college classes and passed. I’m also in a pip internship for psych and I want to get into dedmen I’m interested in either doing early decision or early action but right now since my schedule is so busy with my job a internship and taking ap courses I don’t know if I’ll be able to study for the sat, do I still have a good chance of getting in without it or is a must do?