<p>Has anybody on here been a part of one of these, or any other type of FIG? What did you think of it?</p>
<p>The main differences between residential and academic FIG:</p>
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<li><p>you have to apply for housing in Whitis Court as your first choice to be accepted to residential FIG. You can live anywhere and register for academic FIG during summer orientation on “first come, first served” basis, while supply lasts. :)</p></li>
<li><p>You have to do community service in residential FIG, you don’t in academic FIG</p></li>
<li><p>Residential FIGs are all year long, most academic FIGs are only one semester long, very few engineering, CNS, TIP, education??? FIGs are all year long.</p></li>
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<p>Both advantage and disadvantage: UT class registration is not a very pleasant process, you not always get what you want. Sometimes FIG is the last resort to register for UGS or some introductory level math/ chemistry/something else class.
BUT, if you had enough AP/IB/CLEP/dual credit classes from high school to claim credit for these introductory level classes some FIGs would be just useless.</p>
<p>Also, since you make commitment to FIG, your TA discussion time in FIG classes can be the least popular ones (the earliest, the latest, Friday afternoon etc)</p>
<p>The advantages are all described here [First-year</a> Interest Groups | School of Undergraduate Studies](<a href=“First-Year Interest Groups | TEXAS Undergraduate Studies”>First-Year Interest Groups | TEXAS Undergraduate Studies)</p>
<p>Thanks very much, you cleared some stuff up for me</p>