UT Scholarships - Texas Exes & Dedman??

eokitty
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:40:34 +0000

No, he hasn’t put down a housing deposit. Up until this week, we weren’t even sure if UT would be a financial reality. However, with at least one scholarship, UT is now more real possibility.

We will probably put down a housing deposit within the next several weeks. We had been waiting on results from scholarships at Arkansas and Tulane. He got nice scholarships at both, but not the top scholarships. Now it’s down to UT or Utah State. Utah has offered to pay full tuition. His only expense would be room, board, books, and other misc expenses. That offer beats anything UT can offer.

However, he’s a Texas boy that would like to stay in-state and his dad graduated from UT. Now he just has to decide if he is willing to take out big loans to make UT a reality, or graduate relatively debt free from a school with a better environmental program. How can you beat living in the moutains?

He’ll make a decision in the next several weeks, even if he doesn’t hear about other scholarships yet.

I’ll let him know about the housing crunch. I’ve heard horror stories of freshman having no place to stay even though they “reserved” housing.