<p>I would not pick UT Dallas. UT Dallas is a fine school with a fine education. But they literally have no campus life going on there. The campus is basically surrounded by parking lots. People are nice enough there. Plenty of people where I live do go there to attend, but none of them would consider living on campus. UT Dallas is harsh in the early years of classes I have been told, with profs who do not speak English well.</p>
<p>If the lack of social life does not bother you, then you should consider UT Dallas. You will have no trouble getting a job when you graduate there. I can list several big companies that routinely hire computer science majors and similar from there (Nokia, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Oracle, HP, EDS, etc, it is endless). So it is definitely a fine school. You just will not really have a campus life.</p>
<p>I have never seen their campus map, but I have been on the campus several times. The buildings are all bunched up and then the parking lots circumvent the campus. Outside of the parking lots, are the dorms and such, which, from what I understand, are mostly apartment buildings purchased to make in to dorms.</p>
<p>I know they say they give these big scholarships to NMF. But, you should know that many other schools don’t give specifically to NMF, but do still give huge scholarships to their better applicants. I know someone now who went to TAMU because of a supposed huge scholarship. They were a NMSF. However, in the end, they did not end up finalist and lost most of it. On the other hand, I have known others, who were not even NMSF, who were great students otherwise, who earned even full scholarships to other colleges that never advertised full rides for NMSF.</p>
<p>I hope I have helped more than I have confused. Just give the others a try and see what happens!</p>