<p>Son passed on Cal, UIUC, MIT, Caltech, a couple of full-rides from others, et. al. This was his decision, alone, although he understood his level of participation in the costs were much higher if he chose Cal, MIT, or Caltech. In the end, he felt the huge difference in costs between any of these and UT simply was not justified. Had he chosen any of those three, it would have been MIT. As he learned more about Caltech and Cal over the months he didn't even consider them as major competitors in the end. UT, UIUC and MIT were the main players that last week in March.</p>
<p>oops...I mean April :)</p>
<p>are most of yall doing engineering/business?</p>
<p>any1 chose UT that was out of state?</p>
<p>yea i'm out of state.</p>
<p>We're OOS, too.</p>
<p>i'm an international student and i passed up university of sydney, monash university, university of melbourne and university of new south wales (all australian) and imperial college (london) for UT.. if that's useful to this discusion..</p>
<p>i paased up uiuc for ut</p>
<p>Son passed up Tulane ($64k in scholarship), Grinnell College, Arizona State (full tuition, room and board).</p>
<p>Wife has a coworker whose son passed up a lot of aid at Harvard (minority kid with great grades, SAT's and lower middle class income) to go to UT where it costs more!! Friends were going to UT. He is a sophmore and is making a near 4.0 in business.</p>
<p>This is my first message, so please bear with me. D passed up Tulane ($88k in scholarship), Trinity U. ($44k scholarship). Has gotten into Plan I (Liberal Arts Honors) at U.T. She's getting pretty jazzed.</p>
<p>I passed up Cornell Umich and Cal for UT.. you know, being an international texas resident and all...</p>
<p>I passed up Emory & USC for Plan 2 Honors at UT. Emory had given me enough money to make it $1000 cheaper than UT. But after I decided Plan 2, I got a substantial merit scholarship to UT so it made it even sweeter. Maybe it was a sign from god that I was meant to be at UT. :) lol</p>
<p>what's this Plan 1 and Plan 2 stuff? I don't know as much about UT in those aspects because I'm out-of-state.</p>
<p>it looks like I'll be passing up Tulsa (half-ride with immediate sophomore status) and KU (half-ride as well) for UT. at least I want to...haha, my parents haven't agreed to it yet so they enrolled me in both Tulsa and UT. -_- I plan to double major in bio and arabic tho. no one has really been able to tell me if those departments are excellent at UT but so far they seem to be better than Tulsa and UT. I've visited earlier this year and taking parents to visit in June, ehhh</p>
<p>Son is in Plan I. Liberal Arts Honors, too. UT has various other honors programs, engineering, business, liberal arts (Plan I). Plan II is intradisciplinary, is in the college of Liberal Arts and and is I believe the most prestigious honors program. The Natural Science Program seems to admit only 30 students, so it must be pretty elite, too.</p>
<p>That's great about your son being in Plan I, texdad. Maybe I've missed it, but what is your son interested in studying? Daughter will be concentrating on government-pol. sci.</p>
<p>Econ and pre-med. I guess the econ could change to government-poli-sci.</p>
<p>Oh, may I be the first to welcome you to CC yadontsay.</p>
<p>Thanks, Islandmom. I take it the Island in question is South Padre Island?</p>
<p>Wow, yeah this page makes me feel a lot better. Passed up Rice and UPenn for UT, Plan II and Deans scholars</p>
<p>passed up Northwestern and Purdue for UT-business school</p>