Surly kids applying / attending UT

[Willfully Horn 8087]

Didn’t see this development being discussed in other threads. UT will offer free tuition to students whose families make 100K, or less.

Good for UT, good for students and families. 
 

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/20/ut-system-free-tuition-expansion/

[Dennis Taylor 19023]

30 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Didn’t see this development being discussed in other threads. UT will offer free tuition to students whose families make 100K, or less.

Good for UT, good for students and families. 
 

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/20/ut-system-free-tuition-expansion/

 

This is Surly, that change might apply to a few on here if it was $100k a month, but even those guys are too busy banging 11s to worry about the pittance of free tuition to even tell their personal assistant to fill that shit out

[jimmyjazz 46470]

On 10/16/2024 at 7:21 AM, dcbc said:

Did anyone with kids at UT receive a "financial aid adjustment" email yesterday with zero explanation?  We paid off our balance for the semester last week and, out of nowhere, UT suddenly wants an extra grand.  The UT reddit is on fire about this right now with some people having received "adjustments" of $16K or as low as $10.  So it seems like this is either a mistake or fallout from all the FAFSFA fuckery this year.

I got a negative $984 holiday bonus from UT, but my kids aren't on financial aid.  I just assumed we hadn't paid his full fall tuition.

[dcbc 14568]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I got a negative $984 holiday bonus from UT, but my kids aren't on financial aid.  I just assumed we hadn't paid his full fall tuition.

We got it squared.  Our son had several scholarships that were trickling in, so we pulled a small loan just to let those pan out.  After we repaid it in early October, they had some sort of system-wide glitch.  UT sent back the loan money to the lender (not sure how that works), then pulled a lesser amount available for us, then claim we owed the balance.  We straightened it out, paid the balance, which we now are owed by the lender.  It's ridiculous, but it's handled and we, ultimately, didn't owe anything.  So dumb.

[NoRagrets 1133]

My son was 99th percentile on psat. He goes to a private school and makes almost all A’s in honors classes. What are his chances of getting in?

I think UT would be great for him for undergrad. He’s mature and can handle the social pressure (I think) and won’t party too hard and drop out like so many of my peers did when I was there in the late 90’s. 
 

Edited Wednesday at 03:00 AM by NoRagrets