<p>For those who have been offered the CAP:
where are yall going?</p>
<p>Dunno, but probably not a UT system school. Its an offer I dont feel is worth taking them up on.</p>
<p>really? i don't know Vyse. a 3.2 sounds like a good deal if UT is the school you really want to be at. Think about it, this time next year you might be kicking yourself in the face thinking "man..i could be transfering to UT next fall, instead i'm at X university" You can always try to transfer to UT from whereve you decide to go...but the odds of transfering in are very slim as you already know.</p>
<p>true, and Im still considering, but for next year its be at a great school with my friends or go off alone to a no name school. Maybe I should think more long term, we'll see.</p>
<p>yeah man..think about where you want to be 4-5 years from now. true you have to attend a crappy school for a year, but in the end you will graduate with a degree from UT just like you wanted. i don't know about you but senior year has gone by real fast for me..so i'm sure a year utsa will be the same.</p>
<p>Not a happy experience...</p>
<p>My son is probably going to go for it. Either UTA or UTSA. Anybody have any ideas on which of the CAP options would be most like a real freshman college experience and least like a commuter/cummunity college?</p>
<p>UT Arlington is too close to my house. I dont want my family to want me to commute.</p>
<p>SATDudesMama-</p>
<p>I have friend whose D attend UTSA under the CAP program. She was very unhappy there...ended up transferring to Texas State after one semester. But she also wasn't that motivated to get a degree from Texas. I would think that if she had been, she would have stuck it out one more semester.</p>
<p>Idmom06 -</p>
<p>any particular reason why she was unhappy? i plan on going their with a couple good friends who also got cap'ed.</p>
<p>j281-</p>
<p>If I recall, it was mostly a housing issue. She opted to rent an apartment and found it was a mistake. She didn't feel plugged in to college life. </p>
<p>But I will say this. I have to think if you do everything possible to involved yourself in school activities while at UTSA and also make that very short trip from SA to Austin with your friends for UT-Austin activities, the year will be fun and the transition will be easy. In my friend's daughter's case, she really wasn't that invested in UT. When you remove that motivating factor, it is easy to see why she became unhappy.</p>
<p>Update: My really good friend I think is going to be CAPed too, and he told me that if he gets CAPed and rejected from A&M, he'll strongly consider going to UTSA. This may turn out really well for me and make the transition easier.</p>
<p>I think that if all of the CAP folks get together at UTSA it will turn out to be a good experience for them. If you all go to UT together, you will probably have a stronger social group than the huge sea of freshman that go in together will have.</p>
<p>I believe this is very humbling experieince for my son, but I don't think that humility is a bad thing to get a dose of when laziness and arrogance are parts of what got him into the CAP predicament in the first place. He, at least, is learning that good enough is a higher hurdle than he thought it was and that you don't get what you want just because are really smart.</p>
<p>I also think he is getting some other less beneficial lessons from the experience. The one that is touched on repeatedly here stands out the most for me - if he had gone to a less rigorous school he could have slacked off even more and gotten into the school of his choice. Take the easier path and look better to get more...blech!</p>
<p>Agree SATDudesMama - when you consider the principal of the matter, it is very difficult to stomach. Never should the easy way out be reward to the detriment of others.</p>
<p>UTSA or UT-Austin are so close to each other...I can easily see high achieving UTSA kids finding each other and also spending quite a bit of time together in Austin as well as SA. I think it's great that he has a parent who can help him find the silver lining in an unfair situation.</p>