<p>I'm going to be a senior in college this upcoming year, and have begun looking at colleges this summer. So that I can apply for early admission by August. I want to go to a school that will be good for a biology major because I want to continue to medical school after I get my undergraduate degree. Since I will hopefully be going to medical school I do not want to go to a school that will be expensive and accumulate loans, so I need to go to one that will offer good scholarship money. I've been looking into UTA UTD and UNT because they all seem to offer good scholarships and be good schools, but a lot of the posts I have read on them are very conflicting. Please tell me your opinions on these schools, or other schools that would give out good scholarships. (I am a Texas resident.)</p>
<p>UTD is the best school of the three you mentioned. UTD and UT Southwestern have a partnership where you can apply for direct admission to both UTD and UT Southwestern but this is highly competitive. UNT does have a partnership with its osteopathic medical school as well. </p>
<p>Having said that, UTD is the school that will make you the most competitive for a wide range of medical schools. My dad’s coworker’s son went to UTA and achieved a 4.0 in the honors program and was offered admission to one medical school, Tech’s new medical school in El Paso. Take it for what it’s worth, because its only one story, but you are going to face an uphill battle to get into medical school at UTA or any other medical school besides UNT’s for UNT.</p>
<p>UTA, UTD, UNT are all quality schools and offer different things. And UTD will not put you at an “advantage” (please don’t believe that lie), UTD think it’s the “Rice of North Texas” but it’s definitely not. UTD has yet to even produce a Rhode Scholar.</p>
<p>But it really depends on what you’re looking for. You definitely need to visit each campus (take an official tour) and do some research before you make your final decision.</p>
<p>UTA (UT Arlington) - Arlington is a great place to live and attend college. UTA is one of the fastest growing research institutions in the nation, especially in the sciences (read on it), UTA has quality facilities and the most diverse which are both double pluses. There’s a plethora of highly ambitious students, faculty, and alumni within the UTA community. And yes there’s no football on campus but the Cowboy stadium is walking distance away so you can easily still enjoy all the festivities of Texas football culture if you want it.</p>
<p>UNT - Denton is a nice place to dwell. They have football on campus which ideally makes for a more robust social environment compared to UTA and UTD (only if you’re into Texas football culture that is). UNT has nice facilities and a seemingly more “green” campus (no pun intended). UNT is diverse as well, but not more than UTA … they pass the diversity test in other words (unlike Texas A&M <strong>cough</strong>).</p>
<p>UTD - Richardson is the least desirable city of them all but still a pleasant area. There’s almost no school spirit from my observation, the typical student seems quite disconnected from the university and not very well rounded. Their facilities are in great condition since the university is fairly new which is good and bad. Since the university is under 50 years old, you’ll find that most people outside of the North Texas region never heard of it and the fact they don’t have big time Division I athletics unlike UTA and UNT does not help at all. </p>
<p>Good luck, I hope you find a good fit!</p>
<p>@Rcp2015 I also forgot to mention that UTA and UNT both have well over 100,000 alumni and counting. UTD does not.</p>
<p>So once you complete college it’s more likely you’ll be hired by or working for a UTA or UNT grad … so your “door-opening” opportunities will be seemingly better with those schools. Not a week goes by I don’t see a UTA or UNT license plate, sweater, or some type of paraphernalia. I rarely see UTD paraphernalia on display by alumni or students which only validates my statement.</p>
<p>PS Contrary to popular belief, school spirit does exist at UTA. It has definitely grown over the years. The basketball team nearly sold out its relatively new 7,000 seat area a couple times and other sports attendance are at an all-time high and it will only get better.</p>
<p>NuScholar, you seem pretty biased against UTD (perhaps with reason), but that would affect what you see (our brain filters out a lot and we tend to see what we want/like to see, just like pregnant women seeing babies everywhere suddenly :p) - so, it doesn’t validate your statement at all that you don’t “see” UTD license plates or sweaters. Your other observations are yhelpful.
Good universities for medical school acceptance are Austin College and St Edward’s (St Edward’s is actually nationally-ranked for its rates of Hispanics getting into Med Schools and it’s pretty good overall). Rice, if you have the stats, is also desirable for science, and if you can get into McDermott Scholars at UTD that would be worth it, too (it’s the best Honors Program of the three). Outside of McDermott though, NuScholar expressed the differences well so I won’t rehash that 
Before anything, RUN THE NET PRICE CALCULATORS for EACH school listed here.
Public universities in Texas tend to be expensive for lower-income students, for example. Merit varies depending on college. When looking at costs, think in terms of value - what will you get you where you want to go for the lowest cost?</p>