<p>How am I in the same position. My plan is to double major in Film and Economics. If nothing works out in film, I’ll continue on to try to get into the Masters of Accounting/CPA program at UT Austin because it’s the top school in Accounting in the country. </p>
<p>I have nothing against her. What I am saying is that the odds to make it anywhere in film and even lower if she continues at UT Tyler. Her best bet is to go to Austin to make it happen and make sure your backup plan is solid. No one gets anywhere in the film industry by sitting around, majoring in film, and hoping your degree makes something happen for you. You gotta make it happen yourself. You have to make your own projects. You have to do your own things. Otherwise, you’re going to start way at the bottom (getting donuts for your manager) and you might not even get to the place you want to be.</p>
<p>And I know screenwriting/playwriting is different. It was just a random example that I came up with.</p>
<p>I don’t want to be mean, but I honestly laughed when you implied UT Tyler can be compared as if in the same league as UT Austin. Yes, people from lesser schools can end up being more successful than people that attended more prestigious universities. However, unless you end up hitting a very lucky break or somehow have a great network, it’s very unlikely, and I wouldn’t bank on being the exception.</p>
<p>Your employer may not care between the difference, but usually in those types of situations, employers don’t care whether you went to A&M or Texas. UT Tyler is a tier or two below those two universities.</p>
<p>^ That said, UT’s MBA and Public Policy (LBJ school) programs are two of the best in the country. I’ve heard it’s a totally different story in some of the other schools, though.</p>
<p>Ya Ya,
No, I don’t see myself handling the business side of film any time soon so being the main person behind producing a film may be a stretch for me. I guess some people are more equipped for working behind scenes. If I can be in charge of coming up with the content for the film, then that’s pretty satisfying for me. Hopefully one day I’ll become more business-inclined to have a more influential say when it comes to production.</p>
<p>And pjLloyd100, I agree with you to some extent about how taking a bunch of classes isn’t necessarily going to get you a job or wherever you want to be, but of course you do learn something from those classes. I may never be able to call myself a film expert if I don’t learn from the experts. UT has a great film program and if I can get in to it, I’ll take advantage of it. I know it’s selective though so I’ll definitely need a back up plan. That’s the main thing I worry about when it comes to transferring to UT Austin–if things don’t go according to plan, then I have to reconsider EVERYTHING. In the meantime, I’ll definitely try to put my foot in the door through proposals and other projects. If I move back to Austin, a bigger city than Tyler, it shouldn’t be completely impossible to get my name out there.</p>
<p>idk… my community college general chemistry teacher (who went to ut arlington) said that it doesn’t matter where you go for your undergrad. he said his friend went to a&m college station and partied too hard, dropped out and went to ut arlington. he then went onto stanford for his graduate degree.</p>
<p>i got into several amazing schools and i needed some direction on which one to pick. time after time after time, every single person/professor/mentor kept saying that it doesn’t matter where you go for your undergrad - it’s what you make of it. but some little part of me can’t help but feel that they’re just saying that and that maybe secretly they’re jealous they didn’t get into a good college for their bachelors and are stuck being professors at a community college with mostly thankless students because it kept them from getting into a good college for their advanced degrees as well. maybe i’m wrong, but i just think that some schools have to be inherently better than others and that it DOES indeed matter where you go. i feel like i could be screwing up my entire life and career from here on in if i don’t pick the right college for my undergrad.</p>
<p>sure, the president of ut permian basin could be offering some of us nearly full rides and begging us to come to his school, but who would have any respect for you when you graduated? it’s like going to a&m college station or a&m commerce. one is not equal to the other.</p>
<p>that said, ut austin is the only school listed as a public ivy, where you can get an ivy league education for a public school budget.
[Public</a> Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ivy]Public”>Public Ivy - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>@anexia
I agree with u totally. If you have a chance, take advantage of it. UT-Austin is in World TOP 30 universities according to TIMES Higher education. your academic history is along with u until you die.think carefully.</p>
<p>Hi Guys!
I would be very pleased if anyone could help me with this decision! I am facing a similar situation as @living
I am an international and I applied for transfer 2012, I am studying in Brazil,almost finishing my BSC in Accounting and I was accepted as a transfer for Indiana University(pre-business),University of Texas(economics),University of Minnesota(economics).
I know that from the three options,UTexas is considered more prestigious and highly-ranked, however I do plan to come back to Brazil after I finished my studies and UTexas by far is 32k for tuition(on the other hand UMN is 16k for tuition).
My family said to enroll at UMN for the lower tuition(I think I can afford UTexas too), but I kind of in love with UTexas campus,prestige…
Summarizing, do you think that UTexas higher prestige is more important that the low tuition ?</p>
<p>:/ Lowest tuition. Sorry, but you if you end up in debt after undergraduate school and then decide you want to go to graduate school, then you’re gonna have a hell of a time paying everything back.</p>
<p>Education is what you make of it. I PERSONALLY know MANY people who went to really low ranked universities who ended up getting great jobs, into great law schools and great medical schools. I also know people from UT who got into “lower ranked” graduate schools or cannot get a job after graduation. That piece of paper qualifies you to apply for a job, after that the rest is up to YOU. How intelligent, talented, well spoken, and ambitious you are is what gets you far in life. Not the name of your school.</p>
<p>Make it easier on you and your family, take the cheapest school and don’t buy into the prestige thing. Just be confident in yourself and your abilities, and any school will be good regardless of rank. People often disagree with what I say, but I’ve just seen so many people do well without going to high ranked universities to mind them.</p>
<p>Trust me, after you get a job, no one CARES where you graduated from. It’s the results your produce in your workplace that matter.</p>
<p>@Eve
I guess mooch get a nice point, but for internationals, more prestigious one is more important. once you start working they don’t care your ur univ, but they do when recruiting, like most of engineers in Microsoft are from U of Michigan. And you can get a nice connection for future use in a good univ.</p>
<p>Connections, true. But keep this in mind, even if a university offers more connections than another one does not mean EVERY student going there will be able to make those connections. It takes an outgoing individual and some luck. So even if it might be easier at a certain university, doesn’t mean it’s the only way. That is a terrible way to think of it.</p>
<p>:) </p>
<p>If you are confident in yourself, choose the cheapest. If you feel you will be more comfortable in finding connections at a better university, then go for the better one. It’s just up to the person and how they feel about their ability to search outside the box".</p>
<p>Either way, choose what you are most comfortable with! There is no right or wrong choice, just think about it carefully! ^^ I just feel sad for people who feel pressured into thinking they HAVE to go to a certain school or have no hope for their future. (You would be surprised how many people think like this！） Anyway, good luck with your choice!</p>
<p>Thank you guys for the advice!
I would like to choose the cheapest and as far as I know for the economic area,University of Minnesota is really well ranked (USNews put it at 10st place at the economics area) ,do you guys share the same idea?However UTexas has a better ranking at overall and it is my dream school in terms of campus and undergraduate life.
Also,as far as I know, a lot of people in Brazil do not know other universities at USA besides the Ivies and Columbia.I have already a work experience in Brazil(I workedas an intern at Unilever and HSBC),I pretend to come back to Brazil,but the future it is unknown and I would like your opinion if it would be hard to find a job at US with a degree from U Minnesota</p>
<p>By the way, Microsoft has a lot of foreign employees who graduated from universities that are not only in foreign countries and non-prestigious, they are absolutely unknown and are never placed in any world ranking lists. But somehow these people are able to compete with the U of Michigan. :D</p>
<p>@kkwa
are u sure of it? I heard it from Bill Gates.lol
it might be wrong since I quoted it from a Japanese website.
one who made Microsoft outlook is from U of Michigan too.
MS and U of M work together for many projects especially in computer science field.
are u really a computer engineer in MS?
or just work as a cleaner in a MS building?
If you truly work there, I must respect your awesomeness.</p>
<p>Bill Gates no longer works at MSFT. Outlook, like all Office products, is a large scale (hundreds of countries, languages) that requires the work of hundreds of engineers. In fact, Office as a whole is one of the largest engineering organizations in the company. Of those hundreds of engineers, U of M is certainly represented, but by no means a majority. </p>
<p>In fact, UT is one of the many schools that MSFT targets for recruiting both in core-tech roles (engineers) and non-core-tech (marketing, finance, etc.).</p>