<p>Would really like to talk to anyone who has applied to Southwestern.. is anyone out there?</p>
<p>i got in to SU and am strongly considering it. would love to talk!</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted, and I am an alumna. Two of her friends will definitely be attending in the fall.</p>
<p>oh wow thats great! for me it will most likely come down to whether i stay in texas or not...im guessing you had a good experience if your daughter is considering it as well. i was wondering if students often leave campus on weekends, or does the school have planned events to provide entertainment? anything you have to tell me about the school would be a great help</p>
<p>Yes, I had a great experience at Southwestern. </p>
<p>While some students do go home some weekends, the majority stay. There's always something planned, or a group goes into Austin, or you create your own entertainment.</p>
<p>thats good to know i was kind of worried that with austin being so close and georgetown being so small that most students would leave campus frequently (im really looking for that close-knit campus feel). in your experience were the professors as amazing as the college guide books as report them to be?</p>
<p>Well, there's been a bit of turnover in the 25 years since I graduated, although I think there are still 2 or 3 left! I will say that when I took my daughter to tour SU two years ago, I noticed one of my former history professors in the cafe at a table with students. SU has always promoted close relationships between faculty and students, and I got to know my professors pretty well. From what I've heard, it's still like that.</p>
<p>i recently graduated from SU and honestly i cannot recommend it to anyone. the school is good academically and will do a good job preparing you for the work load if you wish to continue with a masters degree. the cost of tuition is way too high for the jobs that their recent graduates are getting after graduation. feel free to contact recent graduates i am sure that most will agree that you do not need to spend 100k on tuition to get their current jobs. as far as social life...there is very little and getting worse now that the administration is on a vendetta to get rid of greek life. social life at SU revolved around fraternities and sororities and now all frat houses are on probation so that means no parties for you all. if you can go to UT or A&M. best of luck to you all!!</p>
<p>wow is the social life really that dead?</p>
<p>No, FireTruck is definitely exaggerrating. First of all, the admin is NOT on a rampage to wipe out Greek Life--all the administrators were Phi Delts!</p>
<p>There isn't a whole lot going on on the weekends, but pretty much everybody keeps themselves busy. The workload is really heavy, and most people just like to chill/eat/sleep/sex/shop on the weekends. It's like being (gasp) an adult!</p>
<p>good to know...i dont necessarily need a crazy social life to enjoy myself anyway so i should be ok</p>
<p>Old thread, but I would like to comment on what FireTruckAO said; I believe that he's right. I never went to Southwestern but I know several people that did. The ones that went on successful careers were already well-connected; they came from families of judges, doctors, etc. The name on the bachelor's degree didn't really matter, so Southwestern wasn't really a benefit to how they got to where they are now. </p>
<p>The Southwestern graduates who majored in something almost worthless like kinesiology had a hard time finding a job while trying to pay off 100k in student loans (I don't think FireTruck is exaggerating.) Whereas the Southwestern graduates who actually picked a decent major are competiting against UT graduates who paid a lot less for their degree.</p>
<p>I really like the fact that you can go to a school like Southwestern and have a personal relationship with your professors. I NEVER liked the impersonal "pay for your classes, take the tests" athmosphere of large schools like UT. But I don't think anyone should pay $10,000+ a semester for tuition to get small class sizes, especially when Southwestern's career network is almost non-existent. The whole point of college is to make you more financially secure, so what is the point if you're that far into debt BEFORE you even get your first career after college?</p>
<p>There's not a lot of towns in Texas that I hate, but Georgetown is one of them. Rudest people I have ever met. The traffic is horrible, too, and there's not much they can do about the roads. I think Trinity University in San Antonio is a better school within the same calibre, but there really isn't much to do in San Antonio as a student besides drive all the way up to Austin (which I think is 70 miles away).</p>
<p>But Southwestern is a better school than some other schools in Texas like TLU and McMurry. Expensive schools as well but I'm not quite sure what you get out of them for the cost.</p>