<p>How would you guys say the campus feels during the school year when all of the students are there? Does it have the college feel?</p>
<p>Are you asking because you visited this summer?</p>
<p>During the normal class hours, it definitely has a normal college feel, maybe leaning on the weird side at times. Whenever you get out of class, you are likely to be accompanied with thousands of other kids, and you kind of go with the flow. There are people laying out on the big lawns just chilling, as well as constant fliers going into peoples hands and right into the trash can(this campus is not for the weak at heart paper recyclers ). You will learn to avoid the fliers, move quickly in the flow of people, and how to pick up when a survey is not so much a survey, but rather a few erroneous questions then a "have you accepted Jesus Christ into your life?"</p>
<p>I've visited before during this summer, but it didn't have the have traditional college look I wanted, but regardless I'm still going to apply. Are there a lot of open lawns to study on, because from what I saw, there wern't many.</p>
<p>No there aren't a lot of open lawns to study on, but they can be found. This isn't New England, it's Texas. You aren't going to a rural college, you are going to college in a city of a million people. The campus is pretty big and there are lots of areas, indoor and out, to study in, but if you're thinking of Harvardesque quads with kids playing Frisbee and studying under trees, they are pretty limited. Pretty much the only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Honors quad, though I'm sure there are some more.</p>
<p>But most kids don't live on campus if that's what you're thinking about. Only 20% or so of undergrads live on the campus itself, though many more live nearby.</p>
<p>I would say from what I've heard and seen the most popular place to study would have to be the PCL (the big giant main library on campus) though to me the Plan II office looked like a nice cozy place to study, and so did the Joynes Reading Room.</p>
<p>Well there are a lot of kids during the day right in front of the tower studying and just laying out. While the places to chill outside are a bit few and far between, you'll find people laying out on the smallest patches of grass sometimes. Unless your honors, you probably won't hang out anywhere near the places he talks about. I lived in San Jac, and only went up in that area like 10 times total, and mostly just to go to Kinsolving. I went to PCL a few times, but funny enough, the library is actually too loud most of the time for me to get any studying done. The study lounges in San Jac were much better.</p>
<p>Ah that's a bummer. Oh well, at least it is UT we're talking about here. Hey Loneranger, I saw in other threads that you applied and were accepted to Southwestern on basis of a scholarship. How does their scholarship selection system work? Does it go if you have X GPA and X SAT/ACT score you X amount of money?</p>
<p>Here's the Southwestern financial aid chart: <a href="http://www.southwestern.edu/admission-finaid/pdfs/Fall2009_Scholarship_Program.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.southwestern.edu/admission-finaid/pdfs/Fall2009_Scholarship_Program.pdf</a></p>
<p>^^ is there a similar chart for UT?</p>
<p>Here is the one for UT.
Valedictorian:
2 semesters of tuition</p>
<p>Oh, wow
that ain't much @ all.</p>
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<p>How many months of the school year can one study outside in New England? Maybe comfortably for 3 months?</p>
<p>I'd much rather be at a place like Arizona State where the hotties are out sun-bathing at all times of the year.</p>
<p>But it's still nice to have the whole traditional college look.</p>