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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/

 

the wolf of wall street idgaf GIF

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

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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.

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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.

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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. 
 

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Back in the 80s, UT didn't have a computer science degree, then only a BA that wasn't very rigorous.

A few people interested in that field actually transferred to Baylor or got an abbreviated second undergrad in MIS (some of these people were EEs that realized that wasn't what they wanted and it was too fucking hard).  I realize now that MIS is far from the same as CS, at least as conceived today.  Not sure how that worked out for them.

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On 1/5/2025 at 4:03 PM, CleverNickname said:

is this the catch all college thread?

Many schools much easier to get into than UT (etc) have computer science programs. Are those worth a damn? 

It depends, some are terrible and some are good but ultimately it depends on the student.

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I know quite a few MIS grads from BU and they do well, but they're all in business analytics roles doing their computing. 

 

I doubt it's worth the tuition costs from strictly a ROI unless there are some good scholarships or tuition remission (that's what I did for free) opportunities.

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1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

I know quite a few MIS grads from BU and they do well, but they're all in business analytics roles doing their computing. 

 

I doubt it's worth the tuition costs from strictly a ROI unless there are some good scholarships or tuition remission (that's what I did for free) opportunities.

That might be more of a latter-day thing.  This was in the days of MS-DOS, VAX, S360 and frame-relay networks.  The College of Business in those days had "DPA," but Baylor's MIS at the time seemed more CS and less applied CS.  That wasn't my bag, but I had more than one friend or acquaintance in engineering, and business for that matter, that wanted a CS degree and couldn't really find one at UT.  The notion of Baylor was nearly as repellent then as it would be today.

Sidenote, I find it amusing that the former "College of __________" has now been replaced by major donor/patron names and that the college structure was based on UVa.  At the time I thought that was cool, because UVa was a school worth imitating.  Now, I see that as likely kind of a lost-cause type of thing.

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Well boys, looks like tomorrow’s the day for early admit. When they said BY Jan 15th, they weren’t kidding. Waiting til the last day just like Quinn. Good luck all.

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5 hours ago, dcbc said:

Since my source was questionable last year, when I suggested this to be the case, I can confirm that all UT residence halls have A/C and heat, but the individual rooms do not all have their own thermostats.

During my freshman year in Jester, one guy ended up without a roommate.  His room and three other rooms shared a thermostat.

The guy pissed off another guy on our floor, so when the solo guy went to sleep, the pissed off guy had the other three rooms block off their vents, plus they put a little heater under the thermostat.

The solo guy woke up to a freezing room and had no idea how to warm it up.

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Well kid got pushed back to February 15th along with all of his friends. I think this is just for cockrell and McCombs because have heard of others getting their decision.

Kid did get into Purdue aerospace engineering though so he’s happy about that. Still waiting on Michigan, Illinois and Colorado. Texas would be first choice.

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We got delayed decision as well. Hearing almost 90% of the applicants got the delayed notification. 

Sounds like they delayed almost all the auto admits and want to see how many take other schools early decision options and will start to trickle them out from there. This process at UT is such a kick in the nuts. 

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Ridiculous . Sounds like they may have simply run out of time. Puts alot of kids in a bad position that applied early DECISION at other places. Some have to decide before they even hear back from UT. Boo!

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5 hours ago, txduck87 said:

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Ridiculous . Sounds like they may have simply run out of time. Puts alot of kids in a bad position that applied early DECISION at other places. Some have to decide before they even hear back from UT. Boo!

I’m pretty sure an early decision application can only be submitted to one college. Early action would be the application process for their other colleges. With early action you have until the normal commitment time frame (normally May) to decide where you want to go. If you didn’t get an ED acceptance, you‘re free to see who accepts them, who offers money, etc all the way up until the commitment deadline.

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it's hard to plan for or anticipate nearly 20k additional applications on a year to year basis. aggy also had record applications. 

sucks for this class but it's not anyone's fault - the decision to make tuition free for any household making less than 100k didn't help.

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it's hard to plan for or anticipate nearly 20k additional applications on a year to year basis. aggy also had record applications. 
sucks for this class but it's not anyone's fault - the decision to make tuition free for any household making less than 100k didn't help.

Yeah but aggy accepts everyone so it’s really not an issue how many apply. Bigger is better ya stoopid sip.
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https://admissions.blog/ut-austin-pulls-a-bait-and-switch-on-early-action-applicants/#google_vignette

 

Update: In the hours after this article was initially published, UT Austin revealed that it has so far admitted approximately 5,000 students and that MOST of these students met the Early Action deadline (that means that some of them did not and therefore applied Regular Decision). This group of approximately 5,000 students represents 25% to 30% of UT Austin’s total expected freshmen admissions offers for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle. So far there have been no rejections. While there may be limited admissions decision releases for smaller majors or for automatic admit-eligible students applying to specific majors between now and February 15, most of those who met the Early Action deadline and have not received a decision are now expected to receive a decision on February 15, 2025. Nearly 91,000 students total applied for first-year admission to UT Austin during the 2024-2025 admissions cycle. 

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2 hours ago, txduck87 said:


Forced my last kid to live in jester just like his old man did. Builds character.

My kid was at Blanton.  I didn't tell him about my relative palace at Towers in the 90s.  He likes his roommate.  Mine was awful.  He wins.

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10 minutes ago, txduck87 said:

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Well the kid did it. Always been his dream school. Was into cu Boulder and Purdue but waiting to hear from TX. In state tuition baby! Hook em.

Congrats!  Just got word that my niece got into engineering as well.  We are thrilled for her.  She's waiting on some reaches in March, but her mom just put down the deposit on SRD and paid for the parking space (family full of Longhorns).

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My daughter got CAP.  I'm a very proud/happy dad.  She's considering it.  She didn't want to go to UTSA for a year because she just wanted to jump in where she will be for 4 years.  

What have been other experiences with CAP?  Can they get a roommate that is also CAP so they can support each other and be friends when they get to Austin?

She applied to the school of Nursing.  I heard it is very competitive.  Is there a path to Nursing from CAP? I saw this on the nursing.utexas page as required.  Does this mean that the 24 hours have to be from the sophomore year at Austin?  I know it says preferred but I'm trying to read between the lines.

  • 24 credit hours (it is preferred that these are done in residence at UT).
    • Courses taken pass/fail, by UT Extension, UT Correspondence, or credit by exam do not satisfy these eligibility requirements.

She is also accepted at Arkansas, Texas State and several backup schools and she may get financial assistance and get to play soccer at Austin College in Sherman.  So she has some solid options.

 

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3 hours ago, TexasEd said:

My daughter got CAP.  I'm a very proud/happy dad.  She's considering it.  She didn't want to go to UTSA for a year because she just wanted to jump in where she will be for 4 years.  

What have been other experiences with CAP?  Can they get a roommate that is also CAP so they can support each other and be friends when they get to Austin?

She applied to the school of Nursing.  I heard it is very competitive.  Is there a path to Nursing from CAP? I saw this on the nursing.utexas page as required.  Does this mean that the 24 hours have to be from the sophomore year at Austin?  I know it says preferred but I'm trying to read between the lines.

  • 24 credit hours (it is preferred that these are done in residence at UT).
    • Courses taken pass/fail, by UT Extension, UT Correspondence, or credit by exam do not satisfy these eligibility requirements.

She is also accepted at Arkansas, Texas State and several backup schools and she may get financial assistance and get to play soccer at Austin College in Sherman.  So she has some solid options.

 

CAP is awesome. I did it. It’s a great avenue to get to UT if that’s your goal. Time flies and you’re on the 40 acres before you know it. Best of luck.

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8 hours ago, TexasEd said:

My daughter got CAP.  I'm a very proud/happy dad.  She's considering it.  She didn't want to go to UTSA for a year because she just wanted to jump in where she will be for 4 years.  

What have been other experiences with CAP?  Can they get a roommate that is also CAP so they can support each other and be friends when they get to Austin?

She applied to the school of Nursing.  I heard it is very competitive.  Is there a path to Nursing from CAP? I saw this on the nursing.utexas page as required.  Does this mean that the 24 hours have to be from the sophomore year at Austin?  I know it says preferred but I'm trying to read between the lines.

  • 24 credit hours (it is preferred that these are done in residence at UT).
    • Courses taken pass/fail, by UT Extension, UT Correspondence, or credit by exam do not satisfy these eligibility requirements.

She is also accepted at Arkansas, Texas State and several backup schools and she may get financial assistance and get to play soccer at Austin College in Sherman.  So she has some solid options.

 

Both of my daughters got CAP (no pics).  Here are their experiences:

Oldest went to UTSA for a year.  Lived with three other girls on CAP.  I liked the idea of living with similar situated students because they were all focused on grades and getting to Texas - all four girls completed the CAP year and went to Texas.  Two of her three current roommates were CAP, one of which she lived with at UTSA.  At Texas my daughter majored in Economics.  A couple years ago, the School of Liberal Arts added a BS in Econ which is even more math and statistics heavy.  The CAP only guarantees admission to the School of Liberal Arts.  She will be graduating in May.

Youngest wanted to major in Biology and eventually get a degree in Physical Therapy.  It really didn't make since to accept the CAP.  She decided to go to Texas State, got some scholarships and will be getting her undergrad degree in 3 years.  Starting to get hours in PT and hopes to get into the Texas State PT program.

Bottom line - each kid is different.  I know some kids go through CAP and are accepted to other schools, but I don't think it is the norm.  I wouldn't recommend CAP to students that don't want to get a degree from the School of Liberal Arts.

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Our younger two kids are currently at UT via CAP.  Well, one is taking the semester off to play rock star.  She got in through UTSA, but that was the covid year, so classes were all online from home.  Not exactly a traditional freshman year.  Her little brother did his freshman year at UT-Tyler.  All three of his roommates were Austinites who were in the CAP program, and he had another very good friend in from K-12 in that "CAP wing", one hall over.

A couple of those guys could have switched to UT-Austin but enjoyed Tyler enough to stay there.  I think that happens fairly often.  Choices abound, and as was said before, each kid is different.  Our son actually considered staying at Tyler to play soccer, but common sense eventually prevailed.

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Well the kid did it. Always been his dream school. Was into cu Boulder and Purdue but waiting to hear from TX. In state tuition baby! Hook em.

Goddamn that's impressive. Kids like that make my degree look more valuable. They'd lock me out of the building if I attempted to apply today. This new ASE generation will never know how horrible WRW was back in the day. They're in a spanking new building by that sweet Kinsolving pussy.
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On 1/5/2025 at 4:03 PM, CleverNickname said:

is this the catch all college thread?

Many schools much easier to get into than UT (etc) have computer science programs. Are those worth a damn? 

 

On 1/9/2025 at 12:40 AM, F250 said:

It depends, some are terrible and some are good but ultimately it depends on the student.

 

Late to the show here, but the answer is just like @F250 said.  It depends on the school and the student.  Son #1 went to UT CS and excelled; he worked his ass off and loved it.  Son #2 went to Purdue for CS.  He's taking a break from school and it is 100% on him.  Schools are pretty good at telling you where everyone is getting jobs, which can help with the decision making.

Another option is the SW Engineering track in an ECE department.  You will get less pure computer science (proofs, maths, etc.) and far more exposure to leading edge tools and flows.

@CleverNickname - feel free to throw out some other school names - or we can start another thread, if @immamac prefers that.

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Lil’ Nigella was one of the fortunate few that got their acceptance three weeks ago.  Nothing more than good luck of being in the batch they actually processed.  We have gotten over our shock and have been continuously asking each other “Can you believe that happened?”

We are very proud and excited.  She is waiting on a few more schools just to see how she feels.  She has a spot in SRD so she is set for housing.

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One of my wife's best friends' daughter just got her rejection letter from Texas.

# 6 in her class, 13something on SAT, tons of extracurriculars, multiple merit scholarships to other schools....and a non-refundable deposit on SRD.

Ooof.

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1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

One of my wife's best friends' daughter just got her rejection letter from Texas.

# 6 in her class, 13something on SAT, tons of extracurriculars, multiple merit scholarships to other schools....and a non-refundable deposit on SRD.

Ooof.

Lots of stories like that. And there’s one of my daughter’s classmates who might have been barely in the top 10 and got accepted into the School of Architecture last year.

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1 hour ago, Tylerocks said:

One of my wife's best friends' daughter just got her rejection letter from Texas.

# 6 in her class, 13something on SAT, tons of extracurriculars, multiple merit scholarships to other schools....and a non-refundable deposit on SRD.

Ooof.

Must have been in a small HS class if #6 got a rejection (or non-resident).

As @South Austin says, there are myriad stories like that and some head scratchers, too.

 

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