| If you want to stay in Texas but want out of Houston, then I'd suggest UT Austin, TrinityU, and Austin College. UT Austin is simply an incredible school and has a really strong social scene. Being in-state with a National Merit Scholarship Commended on your resume, I'd be absolutely shocked if you didn't get in.
A lot of people from my high school here in Oklahoma go to Trinity. It was an especially hot school for last year's senior class. Everyone I know who's gone there LOVES it. San Antonio's a great town (probably not as much fun as Austin IMO) and I feel like it's very underrated academically.
Austin College is the most isolated of the three. It's in Sherman, Texas, straight north of the DFW area almost to the Oklahoma border. It's a great school but I think Sherman would get really, really boring. |