DILEMMA: ACC/UT VS. UTSA CAP VS. UT DALLAS

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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I might as well post this question on multiple forums.
have a bunch of options and I can’t seem to make up my mind!

  1. I agreed to UTSA CAP and I paid the processing fee but I haven’t taken any placement tests yet or went to orientation yet. I didn’t get much financial aid because my parents didn’t want me to get loans, so w/ grants + work study I can get $2386 in total. We looked at off-campus housing yesterday and an apartment would cost $679 per month.
  1. I've wanted to go to ACC in the first place after basically getting rejected by UT, but my parents wouldn't allow. However, my mom found out from her co-worker more about it and now she's basically allowing me to go, as long as I take transferable courses because I would do that in UTSA anyways. I'm leaning towards this option, but I've already decided I wanted to share an apartment with a friend, and I feel guilty now.
  2. Or I could just apply to UT Dallas and not have to worry about transferring, because it's a good enough school on it's own and I want to major in Computer Science (which I heard this school is pretty good for). I also heard they're generous with scholarships. The only thing is that I live in Austin and Richardson is a good 4 hour drive from here, and it's kind of obvious to me that my parents want me to stay close by. I would also have to pay another application fee, which is not cheap (I don't get free and reduced lunch.)

My parents have been kind of struggling with money recently, my mom has to take up about 2-3 jobs and my dad took another job just so they can help pay for my college degree. :frowning:
Is it really harder to transfer from ACC than to transfer from a UT satellite school with CAP?

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Hello GPAnonymity.

I don’t know if by ACC/UT you mean PACE, but it is basically the same thing anyways just on your own.

Keep in mind that the feeder schools for UT are thinning out the CAP program, each year more students are staying at the school they decide to spend their freshman year. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2014/11/02/in-second-year-ut%E2%80%99s-pace-program-has-higher-enrollment-rate-than-cap

If you’re accepted to UTD for CompSci, it may be easier than transferring through PACE. There isn’t much info now for who got into which college for PACE transfers, but by June/July many PACE students should be getting their transfer info, and we will find out.

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@colaudrey‌ No, not PACE.

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Okay. Then it may be that going through CAP would be easier to transfer than just ACC. Going from community college to another school (UTSA, UNT, UTD) might be easier, but I can’t say you’ll get the major you want going ACC -> UT

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if you want to do CS 100% then go to UTD cause getting into UT CS as a transfer is incredibly incredibly difficult to get in