Review of our UT visit

wakeup13
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:03:02 +0000

Part of it was the tour guy. While my daughter was sitting in on a couple classes, I wandered around campus and occasionally would be sitting someplace when a tour group would come by. The three tour guides I encountered did seem better. However, even the admissions rep, who was very friendly and outgoing, didn’t do anything to sell the school.

I don’t have a clue if they have a health facility on campus if a student gets sick. It wasn’t mentioned.

Aside from what I read online, I don’t know what they have in terms of public transportation to and from the downtown area. I’ve read they will pick kids up at night, but they didn’t talk about it so I don’t know if that is still an option.

The only thing that was mentioned about freshman activities was the week prior to the start of school, the freshman move in, start their Gateway/Pathway class, and go to Busch Gardens on the last day. They didn’t mention any other freshman specific geared activities. That is the number one drawback of UT for my daughter. The other schools seem to cater activities to the freshman to help them fit in. UT may do the same thing, but if they do, they could have mentioned it!

Our next door neighbor just broke her leg at her college an hour away from UT. She did it while doing some of their goofy freshman activities. While I’d really prefer that my daughter doesn’t break her leg or anything else, the neighbor said it was still the most fun she has ever had! LOL While my daughter is pretty academic, she wants that freshman experience (minus the broken bones) and she isn’t sure UT offers that.

The size of the classes are what is drawing my daughter to UT, but I wish they had impressed her in other ways.

Please post after you tour the school. I’d love to hear what you thought.