<p>Our family happens to know seeral students over the past decade who went there (UTSW). Heck…my own child almost went there. I am fully aware that it is perfectly doable from UTD to UTSW for a student like you.</p>
<p>However, my S’s situation might be slightly different than yours back then. He was not really committed to medicine at that time. So he needs other options and we need to pay more for his UG as his EFC was not zero, in order to afford him more options, if he ended up choosing other career path. Or, it is just like what you said, he (and we) just could not resist the “world class education” (I think this is funny even though it is not PC), the reason you mentioned in your post.</p>
<p>With this said, my spouse’s opinion is that you should go to that OOS school because it is really cheap for you. However, I have a mixed feeling about whether you should go OOS or “stay the course” which is TAMS (is that magnet high school called like this? Several of DS’s classmates went there) → UTD → UTSW. We occasionally have this “what if he stayed in-state back then” thought maybe because we miss our child so much as he has been thousands of miles from us for so long.</p>
<p>no matter what your decision may be, be a good girl of your parents and do not stray too far from them for too long 
It will take a long while (if ever) before anyone else will come along who will care about you like your parents do.</p>