<p>So I wasn't in the top 10% of my class, so I'm currently attending UT San Antonio in the CAP Program. However, my GPA is a 4.0 so I think that I will be able to transfer to UT next year without a hassle.</p>
<p>However, I would like to know a bit about the student housing. Here at UTSA I live in a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment and I love it. Transitioning to a tiny dorm may be hard, especially considering I have OCD and I'm not so sure about sharing a "community bathroom." Maybe after seeing the dorms at TX State I was disgusted but hopefully most aren't like that!</p>
<p>So, several questions...
1. Are there options to live in on-campus apartments?
2. Are the dorms nice?
3. Does UT Austin offer roommate accommodations or have some sort of roommate matching program?
4. Are the community baths nice? Is there privacy, and to what level?</p>
<p>I was born and raised in Austin and was thinking about just living at home, but am not too sure I could be successful... I would get too pre-occupied with my friends that I know I would fall back on my studies.</p>
<p>Anyways, just thought I would ask some basic questions about UT's housing. Thanks!</p>
<p>Although none of the dorms at UT will be as nice as the one you have at UTSA, there are several that have private bathrooms. The newer dorms (San Jac and Duren) are very popular. The community baths are survivable, but I would not say they are nice. Just off campus are a few private dorms and an abundance of apartments. Some you can rent by the room and some you need to come in with predetermined roommates. You can choose a roommate in the dorms with some success; roommate matching is a joke though.</p>
<p>Living on or near campus would provide you a much fuller college experience than living at home!</p>
<p>It varies. The “nicest” (but also the priciest) dorms are San Jacinto and Duren - both of which have private bathrooms. About half the rooms in Jester and Kinsolving have connecting bathrooms (sharing between two rooms), but they can be just as bad (if not worse) than the community ones. If you have a connecting, it’s your responsibility to clean it, and there’s always a chance that you’ll end up with slob-ish suitemates.</p>
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<p>Sort of. There’s a survey you can fill out with very generic questions (“how social are you,” “what time do you go to bed,” etc.), but it’s up to you to email the person and chat. That’s how I found my roommate, and things turned out fairly well. Other people I know found a roommate on the UT Class of 2014 Facebook page. There’s also a few single rooms available, if you’re interested in living alone.</p>
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<p>I only had a community bathroom during orientation (Jester East 8th floor), and it wasn’t so great. Especially the showers - they were very small, and there wasn’t anywhere to change. But I’ve heard that a lot of the other dorms have much better community bathrooms.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a CAP student as well. Does anyone know the chances of getting a dorm as a transfer student? I applied for housing in early November and I know they won’t send me a housing contract until I have been accepted…So I’m worried that I won’t get on campus housing.</p>
<p>If you are a female, look at Scottish Rite Dormitory. It is private, but directly across the street from Duren, so as close to campus as you are going to get. They just renovated the community baths and they are beautiful. You can live in a single for the same price as double at Duren or San Jan, and the large doubles are nice and have a sink in them. They get housekeeping service once a week and will even change you bed linens if you leave a clean set on the on the bed. They have a pool, a beautiful gym with trainers and the public area rival really, really nice hotels. If it all interests you, you will need to call and get an application for contract mailing in February. Once you get that contract in February, you will need to get it back to them, with your deposit within a few days, or you will be on the waiting list.</p>
<p>I have a friend who lived in Scottish Rite for a year and a half, and she was absolutely miserable there. Apparently a lot of the sorority girls who lived there gave her a really hard time.</p>
<p>50/50 doesn’t sound quite right, either. It’s been a few years since she was there, but she said it was about 80-90% Greek.</p>
<p>(I personally don’t have anything against Greek life – just passing on what she told me. I’ve heard the building itself is nice.)</p>
<p>inb4 MaineLonghorn posts about her sorority girl roommate at scottish rite.</p>
<p>LOL jk mainelonghorn it is a helpful anecdote for this situation and you are one of the most helpful contributors to this board</p>
<p>To OP, if you don’t mind sorority-type girls then you will probably like scottish-rite. If you dislike them then might not like it… pretty simple. </p>
<p>And ppl will probably be like “what do you mean by sorority-type girls??? they are all unique you can’t stereotype like that!!”… But yall know what I mean, sororities in general look for a certain type of girl, and as they grow older in the sorority they seem to get even more homogeneous. There are exceptions of course…</p>
<p>My mom was in a sorority, my dad was in a fraternity, and i have friends in them, so don’t tell me I am uneducated about what the greek system is like</p>
<p>Scottish Rite was a good enough dorm that my daughter opted to stay 2 years. Their food is for girls - not so heavy - and the living situation is what you make it. She had a good experience.</p>