<p>With UTD forum being quite dead, I thought I'd ask here for your honest opinions!</p>
<p>My parents are moving from NY to Houston after I graduate and hoping to stay close, I applied to texas schools!</p>
<p>Anyway, they got their offers Dec 15, so I missed the UT Austin deadline entirely, and TAMU Scholarship deadline.</p>
<p>I got a letter that UTD will give me an OOS tut waiver, and 7k on top of that, making it about 12k to attend, while TAMU gives me nothing and I pay OOS my first year, about a 20k-25k difference I believe!</p>
<p>What what you guys do?</p>
<p>UTD I feel is a bit overshadowed, as it has the highest SAT scores of Texas public universities, and idk why!</p>
<p>I love A&M and I think it’s a great school, but in your situation I would attend UTD first year or whatever and then transfer to A&M once in state eligible.</p>
<p>Depends on the major. I would go to A&M if you are hoping to do engineering or business because the transfer process could make things a bit hairy. Otherwise, go to UTD.</p>
<p>I have a friend that is currently living on campus at UTD. I visited him during a week (They had classes) and let me tell you the atmosphere there is dead! is like visiting an apartment complex. You don’t feel the ‘‘college experience’’. I didn’t get to go inside his classes, but he told me he was considering transfer because it was too grey over there. That people are not really fun or friendly. I thought so! </p>
<p>In the other hand, when I visited TAMU college station. My mouth was dropping! It has a beautiful landscape, people are so friendly, you can feel the warm sun reflected by the majestic buildings surrounding you. Though TAMU is in a rural town, it is priceless what it can offer. Dallas for is so corrupted(in my opinion). I’d love to attend TAMU, still waiting for acceptance. It also depends of what kind of environment you are searching. I believe TAMU is a well balanced University, and you would love it!</p>
<p>calling Bryan/College Station a “rural town” seriously cracks me up. College Station ranks in the top 15 College Towns consistantly - sometimes top 10 just recently ranked 12th by American Institute for Economic Research’s list of best U.S. college towns. A metro area with a population of 200+K is not rural! I live in rural, I know rural. A town with every restaraunt you can think of, a mall, strip centers with plenty of shopping - it just isn’t rual folks. It isnt Dallas, FtWorth, Houston, or Austin - it’s better. It is a true college town.</p>
<p>@Ksychic: If you feel that A&M is not a fit then apply for spring 2012 at UT Austin. Apply for scholarships and an OOS tuition waiver. Live at home in the fall. Take classes close to home that will transfer to UT Austin, perhaps at a community college. Everyone has some basics they will need to take. Get those out of the way. It’s just one semester. Talk to your folks and talk to your admissions counselor at UT Austin (each part of the US has their own counselor assigned) Best wishes</p>
<p>The spring 2012 deadline has not passed. Yes, that means putting off going to UT for one semester, during which time you can attend HCC (Houston Community College) and live at home. </p>
<p>OOS Spring 2012 (Just one semester of attending at the higher rate) … then…
in-state rates Fall 2012, and forward. Make sense?</p>
<p>I’d call UT Admissions and get started on this. If its your dream school, then make it happen.</p>
<p>I just did my research, and you are right, College Station doesn’t qualify as a rural town. Now, you must understand that for people that come from mid-large cities, a population of 200k people is just too low for a METROPLEX. The city of College Station has a population of barely 94 thousand people. The student body for A&M counts for 48,702. That’s more than half the population of College Station. After all, it is a town built around an University.</p>
<p>Affodil, your numbers are not quite the whole picture of the population. As far as I can research, college students often are counted on the census at the place of their permanent address (i.e. their parents’ home). So the population count in College Station, based on the census, is not necessarily “half” students. Also, the city of Bryan abuts right up to College Station, so their population needs to be counted in the total for the area as well. Bryan’s population is also around 100,000. Thus, the number of 200,000 for the area.</p>
<p>However, the College Station/Bryan area is surrounded by a lot of rural land and it’s roots are very rural. But that is not the case for the city itself anymore.</p>
<p>affodil - I do not think the student population is included in the population of CStat.
I truely live in a rural college town. Our population of 15K does not include the 8K students at our local State University.
the line between Bryan & College Station is seemless - so count the bigger population of Bryan in your population count - and don’t count the near 50K students, so the population is near a quarter million people. That truely isn’t rural - And yes, you are right - it isn’t Dallas/Ft.Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin - and that’s a good thing!</p>
<p>Oh and I see that gxgal7 has just made these same points! So sorry</p>
<p>Maybe you can go to Blinn - Bryan Campus for the first year. You can knock of the general courses that can be taken anywhere. You can live in Callaway, or Traditions and live the A&M experience without paying the OOS pricing…</p>
<p>Then apply to A&M in the Fall of 2012 as a sophomore transfer student.</p>
<p>Thank you BOTH for making me understand. My whole point was that if you came from a mid-large city, college station seems rather small, almost a ‘‘rural’’ town from my perception.</p>
<p>But your perception is wrong you do not know or understand the meaning of rural. And just because you have no concept of the term “rural”, it doesn’t make Bryan/College Station rural. I know lots of Aggies from the large metro areas of Texas who would never use the term rural to describe B/CS.</p>
<p>‘‘I just did my research, and you are right, College Station doesn’t qualify as a rural town.’’ -Affodil</p>
<p>You are getting me wrong! I SAID that I understood, and I corrected myself. I said that college station seems rather small, almost a ‘‘rural’’ , emphasis in the ‘’ ‘’.</p>
<p>Just because I had enough, how is MY perception wrong?! it’s my perception! It’s MY mind, my perception. It is not possible that my own perception is wrong. It is like saying that my religion is wrong.(It’s an example).</p>
<p>And I DO understand the legal meaning of rural, that’s why I did my research and told you that YOU were right as I stated in the second post! GOSH</p>
<p>Stop being so arrogant. Accept the humble gratitude and just let it go!</p>
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