#University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) (2025-2026)

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vagrant swallow
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Yeah ofc

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3% acceptance rate

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If you can get off the waitlist

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You can make it to Harvard

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I’ll look into it then, after orientation week when I’m just exploring Austin bc I’ll be moving in a week before the initiation ceremony for freshmen

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Just to get a hang of everything

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And find the optimal routes for stuff

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Since I’ll be bringing my car and paying their egregious parking passes

robust grail
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even with the advisers saying it’s not the best method😭

vagrant swallow
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Rather than telling them

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"my child is doing CAP"

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Because it somehow brings shame?

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Although I couldn't really fully understand them because I'm on the other side of the story

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But I feel there's definitely some toxic mindset mixed within there

robust grail
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probably

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my mom nags on me and says that she wish i got into ut rather than doing cap but teebs like

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either direction im going to end up at ut cursedmoon

robust grail
dim rock
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but yeah for comp majors its best to join waitlist cause itll be impossible to transfer from lib arts to ur major in ur sophomore year, rather being on the waitlist you have a very very very very very very very slim chance of getting off

vagrant swallow
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I'm personally gonna buy the $1000

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For non dorm students

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Just so I get priority parking

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😭😭

dim rock
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just pick a spot and park gang

gusty halo
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thats not how this works

vagrant swallow
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Heat

dim rock
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im probably only ever gonna use my car like a few times a month, ide rather walk somewhere in austin then drive

gusty halo
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gang

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you are not finding a spot like that

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that you can walk to

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IF and thats a big if there is street parking, you might need a parking permit to use it

dim rock
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theres like 10 parking garages

gusty halo
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parking garages are not free

vagrant swallow
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I'm only bringing my car cuz one, I'm living in a apartment that's 15 mins away from campus and bc I wanna go to Houston for food

dim rock
gusty halo
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okay you texans are built different with the cars

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i give up

dim rock
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its an amerian thing im pretty sure

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all americans use cars

vagrant swallow
dim rock
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feather u prolly still on a permit gang u dont even know

vagrant swallow
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You're telling me you're not gonna drive your Ford F150 4 wheel drive super duty in the narrowest alleys of UT???

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Just not even a real Texan

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🄱🄱🄱

gusty halo
vagrant swallow
dim rock
gusty halo
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someone who lives in massachusetts

vagrant swallow
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Pack it up

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Texas is the greatest country in America

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🫵🫵🫵

gusty halo
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anyway i promise you that you do not need a car

dim rock
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u dont understand

gusty halo
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maybe i don't but i also do understand college campuses

vagrant swallow
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Your state isn't the size of Europe gang

gusty halo
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get a scooter or a bike

vagrant swallow
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We trynna go places

gusty halo
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payin allat to be chained to a car

vagrant swallow
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Fun fact, a drive from Austin back home to Dallas is like 2 masachasseeets

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Or wtv

dim rock
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bro its like 1000 a year it really isnt bad

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$3 a day

vagrant swallow
gusty halo
vagrant swallow
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God bless the state of Texas

dim rock
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mine would only be $139 a year in a parking garage cause i live in dobie

robust grail
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god bless texas and its buccees and texan pride rahhh

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god i spent like $115 at buccees once

vagrant swallow
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One buccees gas station is like the size of 3 masachasseeets or wtv they call it

dim rock
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@meager fog

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do u live in jester

ruby timber
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TAMU a car might be helpful

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A car in a city is more of a headache

dim rock
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bro tamu has a bus stop at every block of campus

ruby timber
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You’ll rarely go somewhere where a bus can’t take you in Austin either

restive tangle
torn gull
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you can defo be totally fine without a car in your freshman year

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if you live in a dorm

vagrant swallow
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I won’t be

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The apartments on the other side of the Colorado river are calling my name

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I’m living in wtf is that tower called

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Seven

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With a friend

dim rock
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waterline

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im dorming in the ut tower

grim wraith
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follow me too🄹

dim rock
grim wraith
robust grail
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guys omg

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i met a sports photographer from ut, and i showed him my portfolio and stuff and he said he’ll definitely keep in contact and try and get me on the media staff for football this year!!!!!!!!!!

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i’ll be on the sidelines shooting sports, a dream come true 🄹🄹🄹

native mango
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ur like rudy

robust grail
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before i nearly got run over by traffic of student

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also i see why everyone uses scooters here because i was walking everywhere and i felt like my legs were gonna give up

dim rock
robust grail
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oh i walked by mccombs today

dim rock
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its getting rebuilt

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it will open my junior year

robust grail
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is there multiple buildings for mccombs or am i like stupid

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ohhh

dim rock
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yes there is 2

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1 is undergrad and 1 is graduate

robust grail
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this is the one i passed by earlier

dim rock
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the really nice one is the graduate

robust grail
dim rock
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thats undergrad

robust grail
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i sent that pic to my friend cause she got in to mccombs lol

lament hull
uneven salmon
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Do y'all see the appeal button?

minor lagoon
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got computer science + business honors šŸ˜›

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how comp is that

somber quiver
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i’m getting admitted emails bc i had autoadmit but they but me in lib arts when i applied for engineering and it sucks 😭

noble thunder
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got into csb guys

minor lagoon
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bet

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what’s the ar for this

halcyon pagoda
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When deans scholars coming out

noble thunder
slate kite
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Did robotics honors come out? Mine still in review

halcyon juniper
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is turing hard for oos

tepid knot
halcyon juniper
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yea i got it

native mango
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crazy

candid ibex
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cs?

minor lagoon
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bet sounds like a positive signal

real patrol
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any yall getting on the waitlist?

ember coral
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Yea I just joined bc why not

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Doesn’t hurt not to

candid ibex
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it's 5% according to their website

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they accept ~20-25 and 400+ apply every year

candid ibex
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it's holistic so their selection process is similar to ivies

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very positive sign

real patrol
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i saw the one you DM'ed me

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im probably going to model it after that but idk what to do

deep jungle
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I got rejected, but I can join the waitlist. However I have heard it’s pointless as they only accept like 5 people off a year. Can someone confirm this

real patrol
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actually you have GT

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dont increase comp for us hopeless waitlist kids šŸ’”

real patrol
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its a lot worse than normal admissions

deep jungle
robust grail
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idk if it’ll apply the same to you but they were telling all the cap parents/kids that if they’re gonna waitlist, they’re better off going to another university or accept cap and internally transfer but even that’s a pain in the ass

drifting pelican
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I got rejected from ECE as an in state auto admit with like a 1550, 10 APs at the time of applying, and like several solid engineering ECs. Admissions makes 0 sense

drifting pelican
drifting pelican
robust grail
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wait like rejected from the school completely or

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you just didn’t get your major

drifting pelican
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nah i got in for liberal arts

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cuz auto

robust grail
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oh

drifting pelican
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I wish there was a proper appeals system

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I'm like 90% sure they didn't even get to my app and just tossed it

robust grail
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do they just toss auto admits into cola cause they’re basically already in?

drifting pelican
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yeah

robust grail
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ouch

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i’m sorry

drifting pelican
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also it's so hard to transfer majors at UT

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it sucks

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I got into purdue and UIUC out of state for EE too

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makes no sense

robust grail
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idk what uiuc is but atp id rather go there than ut

drifting pelican
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University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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it's like UT but for Illinois students

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It's top for Engineering

robust grail
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ohhhh

drifting pelican
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its on the same level as georgia tech and UT

robust grail
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yeah def go there what’s so great about ut engineering anyways (i actually don’t know)

drifting pelican
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I mean UT is in stateso a lot cheaper

robust grail
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yeah that’s true but

drifting pelican
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UIUC total cost over 4 years is like 240K

robust grail
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but i feel like at this point ut doesn’t even know who they’re admitting anymore

drifting pelican
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they don't, their admissions is a scam

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I applied EA as well

robust grail
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i’ve seen people on tiktok get in with a 1000-1100 sat

drifting pelican
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The only reason i would have maybe not gotten my major is because there were like 4-5 other auto admits at my school applying ECE

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1 got into princeton, another into MIT, and another competed at ISEF

robust grail
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man if ut accounted school they should’ve let me in stead of cap😭

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i’m the only person at mine who didn’t get in yikes

drifting pelican
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I mean for non autos it's a lot harder which makes me upset because I was auto and stil didn't get my first choice

robust grail
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mine were all non autos except for my valedictorian

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idk whoever behind admissions is evil

dim remnant
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UT is very inconsistent with admissions

robust grail
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what’s even worse is that their admissions office hours is during school and you can’t call them since we can’t go on our phones anymore like what

dim remnant
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Ppl with lower stats than me got into ECE but I get capped 😭

robust grail
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stupid stuff about my app

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and that i couldn’t get the submission portal for my portfolio since i was also applying to the art school 😭

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i couldn’t call so it was just a very long and annoying process with ut

drifting pelican
robust grail
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and i got annoyed of emailing back and forth

robust grail
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top 5% is like top 4

drifting pelican
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I tried appealing but they ahven't responded yet, and they probably will refuse

robust grail
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what’s more aggravating is that i had to choose another major which i had no association with the last 4 years

dim remnant
robust grail
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yea

dim remnant
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Dang

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Idk I hope we can get into some better schools than UT though

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Cause UT is very inconsistent it seems it might not be indicative of anything about how good our app is

robust grail
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my resume is all art related and everything and here i am applying for gov in cola 😭

drifting pelican
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people get into t20s and capped from UT

robust grail
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i spent too much on merch the last 8 years cursedmoon

drifting pelican
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UT should have a different policy for auto admit on schools wiht like less than 200 people

robust grail
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i genuinely think they should

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it’s extremely hard no matter how hard i try academically to climb up my ranks

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if my valedictorians gpa is like 114

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and mines like 96 or 95

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and that puts me at 39/92

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it’s so irritating

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also i wish i had a lot more opportunities for ecs and stuff cause my school barely does anything cause of how small we are

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like say if i went to allen hs , the things ive done now currently in the past 4 years i could maybe do in a year or two 😭

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oh my gof and we have like 4 clubs here

gusty halo
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isn’t that the one with a mf stadium

robust grail
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yeah it’s the biggest hs here

gusty halo
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texans have too much land

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😭

robust grail
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sum slight

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but majority of texas hs are enormous in size

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some campus’s in my city genuinely look like colleges 😭

dim remnant
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Genuinely only 3 ppl are auto admit how is that fair for UT

gusty halo
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dang i have 370

robust grail
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for schools less than 100 grad class genuinely they need to up the auto admit scale

gusty halo
robust grail
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is that just a texas thing?

gusty halo
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not where i am from at least

robust grail
gusty halo
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and i think UC the top 10 percent is guaranteed one campus

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which might be Merced

robust grail
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whereas me and electro suffer

dim remnant
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UT has auto and it sucks

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And that’s the college I’m in state for

robust grail
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i thought about transferring to a bigger school after junior year in hopes of fixing my class rank but i realized because of how little my school offers my rank would probably be less than 39 if i switched somewhere else

gusty halo
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would u prefer they have no auto at all

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i mean i agree that they should change for small HS

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but

robust grail
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i think they should just get a whole new admissions team

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cause they one they got now isn’t working 😭

dim remnant
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Which is better than putting heavy weight on stats compared to everything else in the application

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There’s a reason why auto admit is not a standard practice it’s only Texas that’s weird

robust grail
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ā€œholistic reviewā€ or look at someone’s app for 30 secs then cap or throw them into cola undeclared šŸ˜³šŸ”„šŸ‘€

minor lagoon
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is gt cs or ut csb better

robust grail
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speaking of ut im literally driving back from austin as we speak lol

dim remnant
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Both are cracked at CS

robust grail
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both is extremely good from what i’ve heard but yeah whatever is cheaper

minor lagoon
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yeah I’d take gt before but I got csb honors after so I’m reconsidering

robust grail
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dont be like my friend and turn down yale for ut 😭

minor lagoon
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if ur in state and u get Turing that makes sense

dim remnant
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Are u in state for GT?

minor lagoon
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nah oos for both

dim remnant
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Oh

robust grail
drifting pelican
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I’m pretty sure GT total cost is cheaper over 4 Years

velvet terrace
robust grail
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if my class was 70 people i think that would’ve been my final straw

drifting pelican
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If you got Turing take UT but otherwise take GT CS

dim remnant
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Cooked

robust grail
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i think he just didn’t wanna leave texas

dim remnant
robust grail
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what other major colleges besides are there besides rice, ut, and tamu

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and baylor and utd

drifting pelican
dim remnant
drifting pelican
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Do you think I should take a full ride at TAMU for engineering or rice if I get in

dim remnant
robust grail
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yes bro free education

dim remnant
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That’s why I didn’t apply there

drifting pelican
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I’m nmf

robust grail
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i didn’t apply to a&m cause their application as a whole looked like genuine hell

dim remnant
robust grail
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why was there so much

drifting pelican
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I got the brown scholarship which is basically guaranteed major + engineering honors program + full ride

drifting pelican
dim remnant
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Oh then I’d consider based off how expensive Rice is and how much you vibe with the schools

glass summit
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all national merit semifinalist & finalists are admitted directly into their majors, no etam

dim remnant
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They are very different, Rice is small but TAMU is huge

velvet terrace
drifting pelican
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Somehow didn’t get into UT ECE but got the brown scholarship tho

dim remnant
drifting pelican
dim remnant
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Huge scholarships for national merit PSAT test but nothing for the actual SAT šŸ’€

drifting pelican
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The actual national merit scholarship is only like 2.5 k

dim remnant
glass summit
lament hull
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it’s valid

dim remnant
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Very weird to do that but not for SAT performance

glass summit
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i think its just that psat cant be retaken

drifting pelican
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Imagine if sat couldn’t be retaken šŸ’€

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So many ppl would be cooked

dim remnant
drifting pelican
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Also if u did good on the psat your def getting at least a 1500 on the sat

dim remnant
glass summit
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the decision to base recognition using psat instead of sat was by national merit scholarship corporation, not tamu

drifting pelican
robust grail
drifting pelican
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Like once ur at a 1500 sat score, it’s kinda based on luck to get above a 1550

dim remnant
robust grail
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oh wow

dim remnant
robust grail
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guys i thought the psat was harder than the actual sat

dim remnant
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At least enough for NMF

robust grail
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i got like a 700 on my psat then got a 1300 on my sat 😭

robust grail
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but im pretty sure that’s cause i wasn’t taught trig at that point yet

robust grail
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i took the psat once and took the sat twice

dim remnant
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PSAT for the National merit is only for juniors

robust grail
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oh

dim remnant
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Did u never take it?

robust grail
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i thought you guys were talking about the psat as a whole 😭

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i only took it freshman year

drifting pelican
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Nah there are 2 psat versions

robust grail
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i didn’t even know there’s a national merit thing for juniors

drifting pelican
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PSAT 8/9 and psat nmsqt

ember coral
dim remnant
real patrol
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i submitted mine

dim remnant
robust grail
ember coral
robust grail
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i did psat 8/9 then just never did it again

dim remnant
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Cause of the scholarships and benefits potentially

robust grail
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no…

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we only did sats junior/senior year

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maybe my schools a bum and didn’t pay for it

dim remnant
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My school had all the juniors take a proctored PSAT test for NMSQT

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Ur college guidance at ur school must be terrible

robust grail
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yeah no.. no one in my school took ts 😭

robust grail
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genuinely

velvet terrace
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Dang my school makes it mandatory 😭

robust grail
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this server has helped me more with my college apps more than my counselor

dim remnant
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Like UTD gives full ride to national merit finalists I believe

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And auto entry into honors college

dim remnant
robust grail
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i don’t know what she does genuinely

velvet terrace
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Tamu also has a specialized AO just for nmsf

robust grail
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like no way i had to rely on randoms in a discord server than a job you’re certified to do

velvet terrace
lament hull
robust grail
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like this is literally my first time hearing about national merit for psat😭

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wish i knew this last year

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oh well i’m graduating in less than 3 months and i still got in to school

real patrol
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like yes we get it everyone goes there but its really good for certain majors

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+dallas job market

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+its cheap as shit

robust grail
dim remnant
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Yeah no UTD isn’t bad at all

robust grail
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i’m touring there tmmr lawl

dim remnant
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I’m prob going to there cause I got rejected from UT

dim remnant
drifting pelican
dim remnant
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99% of ppl ik who go to college go to UTD

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Or who graduated from college went to UTD

real patrol
robust grail
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not too much

dim remnant
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There’s also like UTA UNT UTSA Texas tech too

robust grail
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i freaking hate utsa

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i say that as i’m hoping to get utsa the minute that cap form drops

dim remnant
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Ur actually gonna do CAP?

robust grail
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yeah

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i’m a cola major so

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i don’t have a problem with it

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if i wasn’t applying cola then i would’ve gone to utd

dim remnant
robust grail
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yeah

dim remnant
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Is UT really that worth it to start a year later than everyone else there though

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It doesn’t make much sense to me

robust grail
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i’ve fantasized about this school long enough

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and i can’t really see myself anywhere else besides ut

dim remnant
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Why

robust grail
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its one of those like love at first sight things w me for ut

dim remnant
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Bro šŸ’€

robust grail
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when i toured freshman year(?) i loved the campus, culture, etc

dim remnant
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Well hopefully u enjoy it, im def not doing it tho but im engineering anyway

robust grail
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and i really just wanted to see myself there in the future

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whether it’s under grad or grad

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i think because i was so dead set on ut it was hard for me to find other schools i liked

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except for texas state i didn’t like anything besides sewell park

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you couldn’t pay me enough to go there

dim remnant
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Usually not open to other perfectly good options and get crushed if not accepted or unable to go

robust grail
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like to me the way i see it as, yes ut is my dream school > got capped > upset but still guaranteed cola + im a cola major > its only a year of ut that im losing so

dim remnant
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To me freshman year is far too valuable for making relationships and getting acclimated to waste on a school id transfer away from

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And restart again that whole process sophomore year

robust grail
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for utsa there’s a cap club and stuff here and whatever else they have

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my only issue for it is that i want to leave home and see what it’s like to be on my own

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and utsa is too close

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i wouldn’t mind staying for another year if it’s cap but if i did undergrad at utsa i would’ve ended up staying home for like. 4 years to save money 😭

robust grail
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photography is basically my life so another reason why i resonate w ut

ember coral
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Bro I threw the psat

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I cooked on English and then I must’ve made so many sillies on math bc I got a 710 😭

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Destroyed my index fr

drifting pelican
ember coral
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50

drifting pelican
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I think that qualifies in some states but for Texas you need like a 1480 or 1490

ember coral
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Yea I’m in ny

drifting pelican
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I got a 1520 last year lol I think I got kinda lucky

ember coral
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I think our index cutoff was like 223

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Nice

restive tangle
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and their own esturaunt

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and a broadcasting station

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and a gift shop

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šŸ’”

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and a food court

gusty halo
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the hs in my city has a restaurant

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but for voc tech

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but gift shop is INSANE

dim remnant
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Is it a highly ranked school?

somber quiver
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gift shop and food court is insane

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mine has a rly big stadium but it’s for the district

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but every hs in the district has like 3k or more students

restive tangle
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it's very competitive but not highly ranked like tag, tams or basis

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allen is a big city & only has one high school

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their senior class size last year was like 1700 iirc

dim remnant
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but only highschool in the city is crazy

gusty halo
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most mass cities only have one HS

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interesting

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like boston has a lot and newton has 2 but i think other than that everyone has 1

restive tangle
worn fiber
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yo if i filled out the housing application in late december

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am i fucked for dorms

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😭

minor lagoon
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how fricked am i for honors quad if i apply rn

sick ice
worn fiber
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where r yall planning on living

candid ibex
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idts

restive tangle
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wait for honors housing do u have to indicate that somewhere

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i submitted my housing form back in sept

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i was talking to someone at ut today and they said smth about certain ppl having first pick of housing

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including honors housing

dim rock
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i did my app december 3rd, and accepted my offer of admissions on jan 16th. i got my housing contract in the first wave

dim rock
robust grail
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people are saying that the free app week screwed up their application 😭😭😭

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something about residency issues and whatnot iirc

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ut admission guy talks more about it in detail

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yeah

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but also apply texas just sucks

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i’d rather do commonapp than anything else

desert bolt
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I already did the application in like September

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I’m talking about the next step

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After committing

dim rock
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wait for ivys

fallow wraith
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some friends stayed there for boy state and their rooms were worse than the ones I got in kins

weary parrot
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Wait for average cracked cs student he would even agree to live in a 4x4 bathroom

dim rock
minor lagoon
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idt i have a chance at normal housing if i apply now, i think honors should be relatively more available

fallow wraith
worn fiber
fallow wraith
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so u should have a better chance of getting another place

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if not u should lwk look into off campus apartments like dobie which r the same price if not cheaper

minor lagoon
dim rock
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did anyone else get this

worn fiber
dim rock
worn fiber
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i didnt get anything

digital root
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me neither

desert bolt
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Do you gotta send AP scores to UT now or when you decide to commit?

dim rock
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who else got into mccombs

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i think it may only be for mccombs students?

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idk maybe region then irdk

torn gull
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you can send them later

fallow wraith
dim rock
fallow wraith
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its prob an event for ntx students

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no rd

desert bolt
halcyon pagoda
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when is deans coming out

minor lagoon
dim rock
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i got one for "what to do now", a dinner for mccombs students, and the welcome to texas

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did u get the dinner email

minor lagoon
dim rock
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i got the same thing

native mango
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LOL SAME

worn fiber
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when it says tour "one of the residence halls"

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do u get to pick or do they just decide what hall they wanna show u 😭

dim rock
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they pick

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for me they let us tour kins, the honors quad, and dobie

digital root
#

i got the same aswell

worn fiber
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bro wait thats lowk dumb asf

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cant even tour the hall u might wanna dorm in

digital root
#

rip

restive tangle
#

any ut students here

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im going to ut this week and i was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for places to visit (both on & off campus)

meager fog
#

see the tower ofc. there’s a lawn in front of it that’s rlly cool. + the fountain. + we have a turtle pond too it’s quite awesome

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the sky space or whatever it’s called is cool

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go check out the pcl. you might be spending a lot of time there later

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uhhh more interesting austin tourist things: we have an f1 track. lots of things around lady bird lake. bats šŸ¦‡. live music

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if u like jazz i like monks jazz club. never have been disappointed

meager fog
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music stuff.. cactus cafe (on campus live venue) and waterloo records (off campus music store)

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i’m not into sports but our hall of fame is quite cool

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uhmmm yah

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oh last thing if ur into second hand clothing at all there’s a big cluster of thrift/vintage places north up guad

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most of this is related to my interests mb

meager fog
digital root
#

How hard it is to double major on UT?

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ive heard mixed opinions

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Ive also heard the AET program isnt too great, but is improving? im assuming the name value of Austin and the fact that its in the city outweighs the lack of in depth courses it provides (and game development is mostly portfolio and connection oriented from what I understand), but double majoring would probably be my ideal solution

restive tangle
meager fog
meager fog
#

i will check for aet and cs

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are you tryna do like

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aet/cs? oor

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im unfamiliar with stuff outside engineering so i had to look stuff up and am kinda confused

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afaik we don't have a game development major. there's a game development cs concentration and there's a game dev capstone (?)

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aet has a game design concentration

digital root
digital root
digital root
meager fog
#

i can like run a degree audit rq so you can get all the reqs in a better format but like i don’t imagine aet (pretty sure arts is part of it) and business have a lot of overlaps aside from core stuff which may not even be 1:1

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did you take a lot of ap/onramps/dual credit classes

digital root
#

probably not yeah

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i did take a lot of aps though

meager fog
#

they can help but only to an extent

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hold on let me check smth

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have you considered a minor/certificate?

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mccombs has quite a few options

digital root
#

would it be preferrable

#

?

meager fog
#

i think that like they’re significantly more realistic

digital root
#

gotcha

meager fog
#

bc like by double majoring

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you probably have to take like an additional 30 hours or smth like that and possibly extend ur undergrad to 5 years

digital root
#

i just feel like the AET degree doesnt have any real value, because people in the industry usually get in with other majors, and it's mostly portfolio based

meager fog
#

i’m in engineering so like,, i can’t rlly confirm or deny that. not my field, but ultimately it’s up to you what you pursue

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and you can always switch majors. yeah it might be harder at ut than other schools but it’s not impossible to transfer between schools

digital root
#

btw do you know how useful minors/certs are? ive asked people in the aet discord and a lot of people do aet+cs cert apparantly

meager fog
#

rlly depends what ur going into and what ur taking

digital root
meager fog
#

but imo it’s a good way to learn more without making it evil for you

meager fog
#

you might also need to be taking more classes during the year and you can easily burn yourself out with that

digital root
#

gotcha

meager fog
#

but yah

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i think minors and certs are quite good. wish ut had more minors tho lwk

torn gull
#

you can even do it during orientation

digital root
#

is double majoring the same as internal transfers?

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also found the time when i asked in the aet discord server

digital root
digital root
#

vesktop + custom theme

robust grail
#

t-minus about 24-ish hrs till i commit to cap

#

praying i get utsa

#

man apparently the form for utsa fills out within 30 seconds what the hell

#

my parents said no to uta because it’s far cursedmoon

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i just have a bone to pick because i live around the area of the campus

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utsa will make my cap year financially easier and just life easier in general

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no meal plan or housing smile

robust grail
#

this school needs to reword their emails better. my heart dropped cause i thought the form was out already cursedmoon

inland hearth
#

does anybody know when cns honors comes out or is already out

native mango
#

fr

halcyon pagoda
#

I heard more honors decisions on Sunday

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Not sure though

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Since that’s March 1st

robust grail
#

they haven’t released honors yet?? wow

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i thought usually it’s a couple days after main apps drop

strong laurel
#
poll_question_text

UT! 🤘

victor_answer_votes

47

total_votes

83

victor_answer_id

3

victor_answer_text

Rejected

#
poll_question_text

UT (autoadmit) 🤘

victor_answer_votes

10

total_votes

17

victor_answer_id

1

victor_answer_text

Accepted (Desired major)

desert bolt
#

Anyone get Turing?

I got denied

halcyon pagoda
#

rejected from deans im really dissapointed because research was my main ec

dim rock
robust grail
#

😭😭😭

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bro utsa filled up SO FAST

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mystatus crashed and i couldn’t even choose utsa anymore

#

hello ut arlington…smile

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well yay Arlington for a year then i can see the tower everyday

velvet terrace
robust grail
#

dude I WAS CAMPING

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i had ts open on my school laptop, phone, macbook, and ipad

#

i chose utsa the second the form dropped

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but i was faced with mystatus crashing and giving me 2 loading screens

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this is worse than getting concert tickets

#

talking about some ā€œthis school is filledā€

old lark
#

UT honors came out

#

Anyone makes?

meager fog
meager fog
robust grail
#

why is ut admissions so bad this year

#

my friends that wanted to do cap can’t even choose their school

old lark
#

Is this a smart idea?

#

Or is that the definition of i want to jump off

robust grail
#

usually when you do cap there’s a screen that shows the schools that you’re able to apply to

#

on hers, all the schools are gone and she can’t choose or do anything

old lark
#

Wait like allocation issue or server glitch?

robust grail
#

no like genuinely no matter how many times she refreshed her mystatus her schools aren’t there

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like for me, my schools showed up and there was a dropdown menu with all the schools i could select, utsa was full so i did arlington

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her screen:

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no way they’re offering cap to kids if they’re gonna run out of room THAT fast

topaz ferry
#

anyone made Turing today?

ionic knoll
#

What was your decision for turing honors?

dim rock
#

@desert bolt did the email say if u made it to semi finalist

robust grail
#

GUYS i got my miracle

#

IM NOT GOING TO ARLINGTON

dim rock
robust grail
#

RAHHHHHGHGD

#

now we wait for 2 weeks for utsa to get back to me even though im accepted to there 😭

drifting pelican
#

Someone I know competed at ISEF, has leadership in a FRC team that competes at worlds every year, and was auto admit with great stats got cola at UT after applying chem E

torn gull
#

there is a software track in ece if that's what you want to do

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and many tech elective classes on cs related topics

#

there is an option to do a cs certificate if you really want

#

but double majoring is overkill imo

old lark
#

Got it

meager fog
#

both r a very heavy workload i wouldnt do it

old lark
#

It was never the plan to, I was lowly js joking

dark musk
old lark
#

anyone here in eh or understands how it works

#

i am so lost

torn gull
#

engineering honors?

robust grail
digital root
noble thunder
#

guys is csb worth it

#

like it’s relatively new, is it allat?

lament hull
#

bro yes

#

😭

#

it doesnt get better than that icl

#

unless if u got into like stanford mit or sum

#

quite literally going to a t10 cs school and also a t10 biz school at the same time

#

thats literally amazing for quant imo

ionic knoll
meager fog
#

there’s ways to show proficiency or understanding outside of double majoring in two difficult degrees with a lot of people only in one barely staying afloat

#

but yah cs is incredibly rigorous afaik

#

i would recommend looking into minors and certificates

ionic knoll
ionic knoll
meager fog
#

idk anything abt this tbh bc it doesn’t exist yet

#

but like if it’s something they’re offering and they give a framework that makes it possible, go for it perhaps

dim rock
#

im going to welcome to texas next saturday

minor lagoon
#

I’m still considering gt over csb lmao

#

the extra business degree doesn’t really do much in the grand scheme of things, might as well take the more rigorous option

halcyon pagoda
#

thats wild bro

#

they shoulda def gotten their major

#

but yeah UT deans denied my friend who's sts top 40...

noble thunder
#

how big of a cohort is csb

#

is it 20-25?

minor lagoon
#

im not opposed to taking business classes, i equally value business and tech but those two are different in how you break into top roles

worn fiber
#

ut cs in state or gt cs oos

deep jungle
#

UT unless you wanna go Oos

lament hull
halcyon juniper
#

similar question, gt cs or ut cs turing (both oos, ut is estimated to be abt 15k more per yr)

lament hull
#

gt

halcyon juniper
#

either swe (cooked ik) or grad school

minor lagoon
minor lagoon
spring fox
#

Is there a release date for any of the scholarships from LASSO?

#

I wanted to know abt the general scholarship interest one for freshman

orchid stump
#

you guys know the guy jaydatroll

lament hull
dim rock
#

anyone in the zoom for UT admitted students?

ionic knoll
dim rock
ionic knoll
#

what are they gonna talk about

dim rock
ionic knoll
#

i think its about registering for courses and ut events throughout the year

#

it's my first admitted students day thing ever

dim rock
#

email

#

uhmmm were u accepted

#

if u join vc idm sharing my screen

#

dms

dim rock
#

yeah that pretty much provided no new info

dim rock
#

if u choose an earlier orientation date dont u get to choose better classes?

#

@meager fog

torn gull
#

you get to choose better UGS classes

#

which are required

#

i'm not sure how it works for other majors, but for ece majors intro classes are reserved

dim rock
torn gull
#

they always say that

#

there are unfortunately better classes

dim rock
#

yeah i knew they were lying

#

so ima try and choose the first orientation date

#

cause then ill probably get all my first choices?

torn gull
torn gull
#

in general registering for classes at ut is pretty fucked

dim rock
#

to get the first registration date im assuming its gonna fill in seconds of the portal opening

torn gull
#

like orientation?

dim rock
#

orientation date

torn gull
#

it might, but also iirc the first orientation date is during school for a lot of people so it might not

#

unless they changed it

dim rock
#

the first session is june 1

torn gull
#

oh then yeah it might fill up pretty fast

ionic knoll
dim rock
ionic knoll
#

i have to commit to be able to register for the orientation right?

dim rock
#

yes

ionic knoll
#

ic

torn gull
ionic knoll
torn gull
#

there's a limit per session

candid ibex
digital root
#

whats that

candid ibex
#

comp sci and business

#

it's an honors program

#

to be more specific it's a dual degree program with cs honors and business canfield honors

candid ibex
#

bc austin location

digital root
#

id assume so?

candid ibex
#

oh yeah

#

cs+math is an exception imo

#

they have so many overlapping courses that it's essentially the same grad reqs

#

at a lot of schools

meager fog
meager fog
ionic knoll
#

Ut cs+neuro oos or UMD oos cs

ionic knoll
lament hull
#

acc nah

#

idk

#

depends on cost too

ionic knoll
#

lowkey they the exact same cost

lament hull
#

ut cs??

#

if it was hard cs

#

ut>umd

#

idk abt cs+neuro tho

deep jungle
#

go to UT bro

#

UT > UMD easy

minor lagoon
#

ut csb oos full cost, gt cs oos full cost, or rutgers rbs free

ionic knoll
ionic knoll
#

if u like business and ur not in texas,
choose rutgers rbs free

if u like cs:
choose gt cs

if ur in texas and like business,
choose ut austin

robust grail
#

@scenic crypt @meager fog do yall know any cap students im genuinely so lost on what im doing right now 😭

meager fog
robust grail
#

that’s alright thank you!

restive tangle
#

is there a ut '30 discord server

#

ic

robust grail
#

i can’t wait to open this thread for next years class and see the hell that happens

dim rock
#

UT had 98900 applicants i heard at the admitted student event today

#

and 17952 mccombs applicants

#

8.3% acceptance rate

robust grail
dim rock
#

@meager fog

#

do you know professor bill

#

i toured san jac and now i wanna dorm there sooo bad

meager fog
meager fog
dim rock
meager fog
#

shit

#

did they tell you what it was overall by any chance

dim rock
meager fog
#

yes for fall 2026

dim rock
#

nah

meager fog
#

</3

dim rock
#

@torn gull

#

do u know westfest

torn gull
#

i've never heard of that

digital root
#

@meager fog huh

desert bolt
#

I have a virtual event tommrow

dim rock
meager fog
#

me and a friend were messing around in the library lwk didn’t know it it broke server rules or not

digital root
#

o

grim wraith
#

is anybody applying for the rosenthal levy scholarship

somber quiver
#

is that the guy who makes chess videos on youtube

grim wraith
#

he's so goated

drifting pelican
dim rock
#

i got into the first gen LLC. does anyone know if it's good?

dim rock
#

has anyone gotten their fin aid offer?

ionic knoll
lament hull
#

😭

#

holy locked

ionic knoll
lament hull
#

wait where did u get in?

dim rock
#

same i doubt ill get in anywhere rd 😭

lament hull
ionic knoll
# lament hull wait where did u get in?

UT Austin
Purdue
UMD
Northeastern University,
Rutgers New Brunswick
Clemson University
Drexel University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Case Western University
Stevens Institue of Technology
Virginia tech

lament hull
#

ok so ur him wtf

#

cs??

ionic knoll
#

yeah

lament hull
#

yeah same

#

UT AUSTIN cs

ionic knoll
#

i did get rejected from GT and UNC Chapel hill

lament hull
#

ok ur locked

ionic knoll
lament hull
#

my shi is like
fsu
cu boulder
umd
purdue
vtech
umass
ohio state

#

rejections r nc state, uva ,uiuc, gt, duke, uwash

ionic knoll
ionic knoll
ionic knoll
dim rock
#

bu, wharton, stern all rejecting me

lament hull
#

by everything all tg purdue

#

and if i get into UF prolly going to uf

#

thats my deferral lol

ionic knoll
ionic knoll
lament hull
#

obviously cost plays a huge role

#

but costs aside

#

it comes down to location

#

cuz like both umd and purdue have relatively the same job outcomes for c

#

cs*

dim rock
lament hull
ionic knoll
lament hull
ionic knoll
#

the fake new york

lament hull
#

😭

ionic knoll
#

like im drake and there's a phony out there framing me

lament hull
#

ngl u shud go UT gangy

lament hull
#

bro u still aint drop iceman

ionic knoll
ionic knoll
ionic knoll
dim rock
#

i was going to until i saw they required a research paper as part of submission šŸ„€

dim rock
#

yes bro

lament hull
#

man who do they think we are

#

😭

#

shuda been born earlier bro

ionic knoll
#

they must be competitive af

lament hull
#

i think its t10 biz

ionic knoll
#

when i saw columbia asking me what books i read and for any research I'd done, i knew i was cooked

ionic knoll
lament hull
#

u got it bro

#

gods plan

desert bolt
#

When does housing usually fill up? I’m not gonna commit until like late March so will it fill-up by then

meager fog
#

if you wait until then u are kind of cooked unless you want to live off campus but even then ur options will be limited

desert bolt
meager fog
#

same thing

#

now that idk abt

desert bolt
# meager fog same thing

Don’t you think most students will be waiting for Ivy League and other schools to release decisions

meager fog
#

you are in a bubble

#

most students dont even apply ivy

desert bolt
# meager fog no

Alright so the method is to

Commit and then uncommit if I get ivy

#

My friend did this with UTD

desert bolt
# meager fog no

Do you think it will be fine until March 15th? If I commit and apply for housing then

meager fog
desert bolt
dim rock
#

bruh i got into the first gen living community but they live on the highest floor in Jester west 😭

#

the whole point of living in jester is so the commute to campus is ideal, however if im on the top floor, ill be waiting like 5-10 mins for the elevator anyways

restive tangle
#

better start grinding the stairmaster

grim wraith
meager fog
grim wraith
#

No comment @visaofficer

hoary herald
#

what's cookin good lookins

meager fog
#

🫧🫧🫧

hoary herald
meager fog
#

Literally so true ……

dim rock
#

i heard u can look at it and see the comments they put

meager fog
#

i should. i’m curious as hell

dim rock
#

if u go to the admissions office they are required under ferpa to show u

grim wraith
#

cause some schools dont let you until sophomore year

spring fox
dim rock
dim rock
#

should i do this

#

did anyone else get that email

grim wraith
dim rock
#

if it was spanish or smth ide do it

spring fox
#

Is ut Austin worth it? I’m rlly reconsidering since my parents think committing to virginia tech would be better. I feel like im going to miss out if I don’t go for ut Austin

#

My cost is roughly the same for both

restive tangle
#

what are u studying

#

and are u oos

spring fox
#

Yeah I’m oos for ut Austin and I’m doing mechanical engineering

#

But I’m planning on paying oos tuition first year and applying for instate tuition for the rest of the years

spring fox
deep jungle
#

honestly hte idfference bteween ut and vt for eng isnt that big

#

im ngl

spring fox
#

All my friends were hyping it up saying the diff was a lot

dim rock
#

only 4 more college decisions left 😭

#

kinda sad the stress is almost over

#

i wonder what i wouldve chose had i not gotten into UT

deep jungle
dim rock
#

U penn NYU U boston and USC

deep jungle
dim rock
deep jungle
#

Most likely a Friday

dim rock
#

ok

deep jungle
#

So 27

dim rock
#

nyu will probably be that friday as well i imagine

#

then U penn saturday

deep jungle
#

26th

dim rock
#

yeah nvm

#

ivy day

gusty halo
dim rock
#

actually not even that

#

if i got into wharton + good financial aid

gusty halo
dim rock
#

BU nah but USC if i got a full ride ide consider which is not happening

toxic mortar
#

šŸ™

#

first rd tmr

dim rock
toxic mortar
#

mit

#

bro ts is crazy

dim rock
#

oo

toxic mortar
#

first ea was harvard

#

first rd is mit