<p>Which UT system campus is best to attend for the coordinated admission program? Which campuses do I avoid? </p>
<p>Thanks for your input.</p>
<p>UTSA is the least commuter school, though there are still a lot of commuters.</p>
<p>Pretty much every other campus is a commuter campus.</p>
<p>I'd say UTSA is the best unless you want to save money by living at home. UT Arlington is also good, it has the second highest number of CAP kids behind UTSA.</p>
<p>I liked the housing at UTA better, it's right on campus and relatively new. I don't know that UTSA has on-campus housing, but if it does, I can't speak to how good it is. Neither campus is particularly amazing... something to keep in mind if you have friends going to UT Austin, San Antonio is only a 90 minute drive away, so you could come to Austin for the weekends to hang out.</p>
<p>UTSA does have on-campus housing. They're actually building new dorms and a student apartment complex right across UTSA. There are two other apartments that are mainly for students about 10 minutes walking distance. One of them is pretty new. They have roomate matching programs, just in case you wanted to know. UTSA's dorms are pretty nice. The one I stayed during summer orientation was sooo nice. 4bed/2bath with a living room and kitchen area. The individual rooms were big and spacious and the bed was really relaxing. I forgot which dorm it was though, if you really wanna know I'll let you know sometime next week since I drive by it.</p>
<p>UTAs dorms are actually really nice, much nicer than the ones I saw at UT. I haven't been in all of the dorms there, but Arlington Halls dorms are really nice. Central living area, three bedrooms, private bathroom, small little kitchen area.</p>
<p>Main problem with UTA is the city of Arlington. Not exactly the nicest area. One day, my Criminal Justice teacher at UTA decided to check out which areas of Arlington had huge crime rates, and two huge crime areas were within 3 or 4 miles of campus. There were numerous reports of prostitution, murder, drugs, vandalism, etc in these two concentrated areas. While I've never had a problem with the crime there, my brother once visited me at UTA and while he was eating at a Whataburger at like 1 am or so on a Saturday night, someone jacked his stereo. </p>
<p>Overall, UTAs not that bad. There's plenty to do in the D/FW metro.</p>
<p>Jeez, well thank god UTSA is located around San Antonio's nicest area. The only thing you REALLY have to worry about is finding a parking space hah. But then again, I assume this is the same for most universities.</p>
<p>The DFW metro area is NOT a college sort of place. Unless you are 21 or you like to go clubbing, you are going to be disappointed if you go to UTA.</p>
<p>You can go to Six Flags, maybe Cowboys Arlington if you are into country, but that's about it.</p>
<p>Dallas is a place to raise a family, not to go to college.</p>
<p>^
thats sort of true, the Richardson area is starting to revolve more around UTD.
DFW has a number of good universities, but for the most part it is a Grad School-Family Area.
Same with Houston, except that actually have a tier 1 university in their metropolitan area.
San Antonio and Austin are Ideal college CITIES.</p>
<p>I like living in Arlington. At least you have options when it comes to things to do. The only problem is that the town isn’t backing the college, but the other way around. UTA is trying to fix that. But if you like city living then it’s great and don’t let that scare you away. I’m sure LA and New York City aren’t exactly college towns but where do you think USC and NYU are?</p>
<p>Being a town with a college and being a college town are two completely different things.</p>