@kli586 Yes I am an in state student. I recieved an email on the eighth saying that my financial aid was available via CASH on the portal. I’m not sure how many other people have received financial aid packages yet
@kli586 Our financial aid pkg is up as well. So when you go to CASH - on the left pull down the year and checkbox My Financial Aid. It doesn’t just show on the CASH page. Remember - Tuition pricing has not been announced and also the New Housing Pricing isn’t on the website. So for example: A shared space/community bath is now 11,791.
If anyone has a Housing Contract with the new dorm pricing to share - please announce!
@kli586
All rates include room, meal plan, internet service, laundry and applicable sales tax. New for the 2019 – 2020 year is an unlimited meal plan. The new meal plan allows residents unlimited visits at our two all-you-care-to-eat dining locations, $300 Dine In Dollars per semester which can only be spent in University Housing and Dining operated locations and $200 Bevo Bucks which can be used at any participating location. See the 2019 - 2020 terms and conditions.Below are the proposed rates for 2019 - 2020 pending approval.
Room Type
Price
Shared space with community bath
$11,791
Jester renovated shared space with community bath
$12,173
Shared space with connecting or private bath
$12,555
Jester renovated shared space with connecting or private bath
$12,938
San Jacinto or Duren shared space with connecting or private bath
$14,852
Basic single with community bath*
$14,194
Jester renovated basic single with community bath*
$14,576
Premium single with community bath*
$16,598
Jester renovated premium single with community bath*
$16,980
Premium single with connecting or private bath*
$17,362
Renovated premium with private bath*
$17,755
Duren single*
$19,659
*Very limited single spaces.
Is it just me or is this unlimited plan a much better deal??
Is anyone else still waiting for financial aid? I have not received anything yet. I am OOS and have had the “check back in two weeks” message on my portal since December!
Also not sure if this is the right forum (Please redirect me if there is a specific forum for Texas Exes Scholarships), but does anyone know about the Texas Exes Scholarships? I applied back in January but don’t really know much about it. I understand there is a bunch of different scholarships, but just generally wondering how many/what percentage of students receive at least some scholarship money from this? Also how and when are we notified if we receive anything
@Meadow530 It really depends on your student and eating habits. There’s a fair amount of free food for freshman the first few weeks at events and at clubs they join and at the meetings. My daughter never found herself near J2 or Kinsolving since she had a tight schedule so eating at the buffet was kinda useless. Lab classes were always at a poor time too. Plus the weekend options were really awful and they always had to find places to eat on Sunday. I would load her up with yogurts, power bars, etc. She ended with $700 remaining which she rolled over to the next fall semester and when she lived off campus the next year used this to purchase at the markets at the crazy prices they have. They no longer will allow you to roll over Dine In Dollars next year. Hopefully, the new plan will fix some of the previous issues like weekend options. I can fully understand if you have a fairly open schedule how this would work well.
@MomJojo Thanks for posting housing prices.
@comptechmom, good to know. Thanks for pointing those factors out. I think my daughter is going to be right next to Kinsolving in the honors quad so I hope it will be convenient for her. I was thinking the old plan would require supplemental food money in the neighborhood of 75-100 per month (because it would only cover maybe 10 meals a week if you didn’t want to run out?) and it looks like her dorm cost only went up about 600 per year so it struck me as a good trade off.
Regarding the new unlimited meal plan, how are J2 and Kins dining halls? Newly remodeled? Good selection?
I’m guessing these two will be packed most of the time next year.
EDIT: thanks @comptechmom you already answered my questions
@Meadow530 Everything depends on their schedule. The Honors quad is convenient. My daughter stayed in Carothers her first year (I just really hated move out time). I’m still deciding on what to do with my son - dorm or off-campus. New dorm pricing has made off-campus very attractive now.
I agree. She saw a glossy brochure for Castilian that really made the regular on campus rooms look like slumming LOL. And the price point was almost exactly the same!
@200287791 Texas Exes is the alumni organization. The percentage of students receiving the awards is very low considering you have 50,000 students and “In the 2018-19 academic year, the association will award $4.1 million to more than 670 University of Texas at Austin students.”
I think if you look at past threads/years on here people were reporting Texas Exes coming out in Early May but paperwork may have arrived earlier before the online notification. Departmental scholarships come in very late summer. Those are just magical surprises and can either be need, merit or both.
@200287791 Still waiting on FA as well.
@UTWannabe23 and @200287791 We’re still waiting for the FA as well
D just got FA about an hour ago. She received an email notification and CASH was updated.
@all just got our FA notice tonight too.
If you want to call if FA, we got it as well.
Has anybody received word on a Human Ecology Honors decision? Still waiting and beginning to wonder if I should email or call. Not sure if any other honors programs are still waiting as well.
Has anyone registered for the Freshman Orientation yet? Is it recommended that I accept admission right now and register, or would it be okay to wait until the end of the month to accept admission? Would spots be taken if I wait?
@Sushi121212 we registered for orientation the first hour it was open. We didn’t want to take a chance on classes being filled on the later orientation dates - the kids register at orientation.
@Sushi121212 at LEAD we had a chance to talk to the campus advisors.
They confirmed they release a certain amount of seats for classes for each Orientation session.
That means there will still be good options later on. I don’t think that is true for August Orientation.
Also each major or school will reserve seats for their students.
For example we were told that in the CNS they reserve seats in classes at their college for CNS students with their best professors.
I believe most colleges give their students that advantage.
My daughter signed up for the second session right when Orientation registration opened, the first session is not an option for her because of another event she committed to before.
I would only accept admission if you are very sure you want to attend UT. But I am sure others have accepted before and later changed their mind, because the FA didn’t work for them.