Engineering College Suggestions

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello, I am well on my college search journey and need a little help. Have applied to Texas A&M (should be admitted based on auto admit policy), U of Arizona, and have been admitted to ASU. I have a 3.93 UW and 4.07 W GPA and a 30 on the ACT. What other schools should I apply too? I would like to stay on the west coast and also not have a lot of debt out of college (Arizona Resident). My major is most likely going to be in Electrical Engineering. </p>

<p>Also, is it worth the admissions fee to apply to UT Austin, I have heard they don't take too many Out Of State students.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Out of state publics are unlikely to offer enough financial aid, although some may offer good merit scholarships. Check the net price calculators.</p>

<p>UT Austin takes 75% of its class from top 7% ranked Texas high school students. So there is not a lot of space for everyone else to squeeze into. And it may not be very affordable out of state, with fewer merit scholarship opportunities than Texas A&M (many of whose merit scholarships do waive the out of state additional tuition).</p>

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<p>Maybe New Mexico?</p>

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<p>Don’t bother with UT, you won’t get enough money even if you get in.</p>

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<p>How are you getting “auto admit” to TAMU if you’re not a resident?</p>

<p>What are your parents saying about how much they’ll pay?? Going to an OOS public can be expensive.</p>

<p>Alabama would give you free tuition plus $2500 per year from eng’g for your stats. Your remaining costs would be about $12k per year…cheaper than instate. Could be a safety for you.</p>

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<p>If you are in the top quarter of your class with an ACT of 30 or higher, you are automatically admitted in or out of state.</p>

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<p>^^
Ok…what are your parents saying about paying TAMU’s OOS rate? What’s the total cost? Is it about $40k per year?</p>

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<li>If you can afford TAMU why wouldn’t you be able to afford UT-Austin</li>
<li>If you are going to spend over 40K/yr x 4 years to go to college. What does another application fee matter. </li>
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<p>When you study engineering, you will learn to neglect insignificant quantities in your calculations. The application fee is one of those. </p>

<p>Your time on the other hand is valuable.</p>

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<p>UT Austin is $51,458 for non-residents in engineering.
[FINANCIAL</a> AID: 2013-2014 Undergraduate Cost of Attendance (COA)](<a href=“http://finaid.utexas.edu/costs/130undergradcosts.html]FINANCIAL”>http://finaid.utexas.edu/costs/130undergradcosts.html)</p>

<p>Texas A&M is $38,701 for non-residents.
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<p>So it is entirely possible for someone to be able to afford the non-resident list price of Texas A&M but not UT Austin.</p>

<p>Also, there appear to be more merit scholarships at Texas A&M, many of which waive the non-resident additional tuition (so a $1,000 merit scholarship could really become an $18,120 merit scholarship after the $17,120 non-resident additional tuition waiver is considered).
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<p>You are really on top of things ucb, fair enough!</p>