I have a Few Questions about UT at Austin..

theloneranger
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:00:25 +0000

Yes, unless you improve your rank and ACT/SAT SIGNIFICANTLY, you will be admitted to the CAP program. CAP is great for many kids who want to go to UT Austin but aren’t academically ready yet. You’d go to UTPB or UTSA or UTA or another campus (I think all of them but UTD participate) and if you get a 3.2 you are automatically accepted to UT for your sophmore year.

UT is what you make it. There are kids who try to take 24 hours and kill themselves academically. There are kids who just chill and smoke and drink all day and try to barely make grades. There are kids who are in love with intramurals, club sports, the gym, and the Horns. Horn spirit is huge–everyone cares how UT does in sports, especially in football.

UT is pretty good at EVERY major The business school is especially well regarded. Honestly, if computer science is really what you want to do, I’d recommend trying to get in to UTD. The Turing scholars program is very good but I don’t think you could get in to that, and I’m not sure about the normal CS program. Liberal Arts is a huge field. Some of the programs are excellent, such as the #1 Latin American history program, while others aren’t as well renowned but are still quite good. 2

The nightlife in Austin is AMAZING! It’s the live music capital of the world, there are a lot of cool clubs on 6th Street as well. You can hear good music any day of the week. You can find great parties. You can find something no matter what you like. Simply put, Austin is the nightlife capital of the Southwest.

My advice to you is to try hard in school the next year, try to get the scores up quite a bit as well. If UT is truly your dream school, go to CAP and work hard and you can go to UT for the last three years.

Good luck!