<p>okay. so right now it's between Texas State University and Texas Tech. I have visited both schools and love both campuses. Texas Tech is my first choice. However I live in San Antonio and it's a 7 hour drive. Texas State is an hour drive. Texas Tech is in the middle of NOWHERE and there's nothing to do. Texas State is surrounded my big cities like Austin and there's much more to do in San Marcos (where State is). Texas Tech is also known to be a much better school. I'm majoring in psychology if that helps. please I just need some insight I'm so lost </p>
<p>The way I heard it growing up in the mid-atlantic states, a 7 hour drive in Texas was the equivalent of running out for a pack of smokes. If there is plenty to do on the campus of Tech than you will have no problems with its isolation. I cannot speak to whether or not there’s enough to do, but administrators at most isolated colleges, esp ones as big as Tech, make sure there’s enough to do on campus. You’ll have to research it by talking to students there. What most prospective students fail to understand is that freshmen spend about two days per school year going off-campus in search of fun. Only a tiny part of your time at Tech will involve leaving campus for your excitement. I don’t know anything about Texas State, which may in itself tell you something about its reputation among academics. I have no horse in the race. Choose wisely, candylover.</p>
<p>Texas State would probably be better IMO. TT is in the middle of nowhere, but the campus is nice. Since you’re doing psych and not engineering, I don’t think the programs will be that different.</p>
<p>Another way to look at it is: what do you want to do with your psychology degree? And which college has strength in that area? Do you want to go to grad school? Become a counselor? A school guidance counselor? Work for a company in relation to labor issues? Are you interested in social psychology? In the science/neuroscience aspects of it?
If you hope to be premed, I’d suggest Texas Tech because you’ll be stronger in the sciences (a big deal for the MCAT - poor scientific background is a reason why psych majors score poorly compared to other majors).
As for “nothing to do”: what percentage freshmen live on campus? If you look at the school newspaper, what had they planned in terms of concerts, films, trips, activities, etc, on campus?</p>