Co-op housing for grad students?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>I am currently a grad student about to enter my 2nd yr at UT. As an undergrad at another school, I lived in the coops and had a great experience, people were alot more friendly/less cliquey than other students I tried to meet, there were lots of international students so I could learn about their cultures, and it was cheap with free meals.</p>

<p>In my 1st yr as a grad student at UT, I lived in a single apartment and found it too lonely. So I'm thinking about moving into the coops for the 2nd yr at UT. I prefer living in a coop that at least has some other grad students, has plenty of international students, and is not vegetarian</p>

<p>I found this website: <a href="http://www.austincooperatives.coop/"&gt;http://www.austincooperatives.coop/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It seems like the 'College Houses' and 'ICC Austin' are the best options for UT Austin students due to being closest to UT? If so, why are there so many different coops? How can I choose which one is best for me based on what I wrote above? My undergrad school had just one coop, so it was no problem..</p>

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<p>I will live in Laurel in the upcoming semester and have been researching about the co-ops for these past few months. From what I’ve seen, read and heard, each co-ops are somewhat different from each other base on the way their house is build and how the rooms were organize.
ICC co-ops tend to be like a normal house with a lot of rooms and a big kitchen, students live together and see each other more frequently than in other co-ops. Most of the ICC houses have around 17-25 members.
College house are build like a small dorm, you may have room dived into suites. There is a big dining room and kitchen. Each house usually contains more than 100 members.
If you looking for place where you can find grad students like you, I would suggest ICC’s French house, Seneca or College Houses’ Nueces or Opsis. Most people live there are grad students. </p>

<p>By the way, most of the co-ops are already full so if you have yet to apply by now, you won’t get a room. </p>