<p>So even though I paid for my housing application in February someone who potentially applied after me will have preference over me? That doesn’t sound right to me. 
there is no way I can afford an off campus apartment without using financial aid to do so. Will financial aid pay for that?</p>
<p>You can use financial aid to help cover off campus living. You could share a room in an apartment to cut costs. My child will be doing this next year and the overall cost is about what a dorm on campus would be. Plus side is a kitchen, living room and washer/dryer.</p>
<p>You can e-mail one of the people for housing at UT and see if you will be able to get a room on campus because they can give you a better answer… And it depends on how much grants/scholarships you get, unless you want to take out loans. And I worked for 2 years before coming to UT so I had enough money saved and my parents help me out for paying groceries and other outside stuff. I just wanted to avoid getting loans. But ya flatxca is right, you should maybe share a room to cut down cost.</p>
<p>Alright. Thanks guys. So does anyone want to recommend any good apartments near campus?</p>
<p>If you don’t mind having roommates, def check out Longhorn Landing.</p>
<p>Is Longhorn Landing nice?
And what type of people primarily live there?</p>
<p>Longhorn Landing is basically gonna be allllll UT students. Check it out!</p>
<p>[Longhorn</a> Landing Apartments](<a href=“http://www.aspensquare.com/texas/austin/longhorn-landing/]Longhorn”>http://www.aspensquare.com/texas/austin/longhorn-landing/)</p>
<p>By the way, what are you stats?
Intended major?
Hours?
GPA?
Current college?</p>
<p>I applied to Liberal Arts as an ANTH major, GEOG as my second choice
27 hours
3.22
Houston Community College</p>
<p>My GPA was supposed to be a 3.33 but my dumbass prof forgot to put in my grade change (that’s HCC for you). I’m currently taking 20 hours of classes right now, and I plan on testing out of at least 6 hours of Spanish.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Longhorn Landing is really bad, especially if you look at all the reviews. I would probably stay at the Ballpark, which is a little bit better…</p>
<p>I also heard longhorn landing is awful… reviews of apartments are a great tool! :)</p>
<p>My information is listed in a Transfer thread but again I will list them below…</p>
<p>I’m currently a freshman at Richland College (Dallas County Community College District)
1st choice: Pre-Nursing major
2nd choice: Psychology
Total hours completed thus far: 20
Current GPA: 3.6
Current # of Hours I’m enrolled in: 16
Hoping to have a 3.79 by the end of this term. If not that at least a 3.69.</p>
<p>P.S. I talked to housing the other day and they told me that if you don’t get a contract after you’re admitted and pay the deposit that you will get put on a wait list. In years past they said they have found a spot for nearly everyone on the wait list. So I think I will probably be waiting till then to figure out where I am going to live. I just decided to have a little faith I guess. Hopefully it all works out.</p>
<p>^I do hope they have housing left. If they don’t, I’ll probably be too late to get apartments. :/</p>
<p>Crap, I hope so too…</p>
<p>So do you guys think I have a good chance if I get my GPA up to a 3.48 - 3.5?</p>
<p>I’m already overloaded with classes, I had to get Dean’s approval for excess hours.
Plus I’m first-gen American, first college student of my fam, full-time job, got 2 letters of recs and wrote the optional essay describing why my GPA was so low my first semester of college (med condition).</p>
<p>Do you think I would be okay with my predicted GPA or should I try to take another course to get it higher?</p>
<p>of so if my GPA is a 3.0, with like 35-40 hours (i don’t really know how many hours i’ll have at the end of this sem.), and i took 3 classes in the summer and got A’s in all three of them, can my GPA go up to like 3.5, before i start in august, so i can apply to UT for the spring?</p>
<p>Without knowing the exact details the best guess on your question would be a gpa of 3.18</p>
<p>@Manayy - This is a lifesaver.</p>
<p>[Raise</a> Your GPA](<a href=“Raise Your GPA - Back2College”>Raise Your GPA - Back2College)</p>