Texas Early Action is Out

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Anonymous wrote:A really undervalued school. Guessing many people in the DMV stay away because of the undeserved mediocre ranking.

I think many people from here have negative stereotypes about Texas...TBH

+1 - I am astounded by how negative the stereotypes here are about Texas. Texas has great schools, great food, great culture. I think people let the conservative politics of the last twenty years color their views - but forget or never knew the politics prior - and overlook that VA and MD have similar politics in various corners of those fair states. Many of the cities are vibrant and decidedly not conservative (Houston, Dallas, Austin). I would be proud to have a child apply and get in at Rice, UT-Austin, Texas A&M, and others.

I agree. I'm the PP who's DC was accepted to UT Austin from the DMV. Many of the negative stereotypes are from people who have never stepped foot in Texas. I'm a born and raised Yankee who has lived in eight cities in the US. We lived in Houston for two years and I unexpectedly LOVED it! Houston was wonderfully diverse (of course HUGE Mexican/Mexican-American population as well as large Indian population which was great because DH is from India). Texans work hard and play hard and are among the friendliest people in the country. It was the easiest place to make friends out of all the cities we've lived in. Plus so much creativity comes out of that state and we'd be very happy to have our kid "gone to Texas!!"

I agree that this is all true about TX. I have lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
However, ALL of my TX family members (and most are in the Houston area, which calls itself the most diverse city in the world), regardless of where they live, voted for Trump. I don't think the politics are a reason not to send your kid to TX, but you have to know that they are going to be comfortable generally being in the minority opinion, and know when to keep their mouth shut.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A really undervalued school. Guessing many people in the DMV stay away because of the undeserved mediocre ranking.

I think many people from here have negative stereotypes about Texas...TBH

+1 - I am astounded by how negative the stereotypes here are about Texas. Texas has great schools, great food, great culture. I think people let the conservative politics of the last twenty years color their views - but forget or never knew the politics prior - and overlook that VA and MD have similar politics in various corners of those fair states. Many of the cities are vibrant and decidedly not conservative (Houston, Dallas, Austin). I would be proud to have a child apply and get in at Rice, UT-Austin, Texas A&M, and others.

I agree. I'm the PP who's DC was accepted to UT Austin from the DMV. Many of the negative stereotypes are from people who have never stepped foot in Texas. I'm a born and raised Yankee who has lived in eight cities in the US. We lived in Houston for two years and I unexpectedly LOVED it! Houston was wonderfully diverse (of course HUGE Mexican/Mexican-American population as well as large Indian population which was great because DH is from India). Texans work hard and play hard and are among the friendliest people in the country. It was the easiest place to make friends out of all the cities we've lived in. Plus so much creativity comes out of that state and we'd be very happy to have our kid "gone to Texas!!"

I agree that this is all true about TX. I have lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
However, ALL of my TX family members (and most are in the Houston area, which calls itself the most diverse city in the world), regardless of where they live, voted for Trump. I don't think the politics are a reason not to send your kid to TX, but you have to know that they are going to be comfortable generally being in the minority opinion, and know when to keep their mouth shut.

Texas is mostly a sea of red, so you will have plenty of classmates who you will disagree with. That said, Austin is one of the darkest blue parts of the state. Here's a map of the 2016 presidential voting results by county. https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/texas/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A really undervalued school. Guessing many people in the DMV stay away because of the undeserved mediocre ranking.

I think many people from here have negative stereotypes about Texas...TBH

+1 - I am astounded by how negative the stereotypes here are about Texas. Texas has great schools, great food, great culture. I think people let the conservative politics of the last twenty years color their views - but forget or never knew the politics prior - and overlook that VA and MD have similar politics in various corners of those fair states. Many of the cities are vibrant and decidedly not conservative (Houston, Dallas, Austin). I would be proud to have a child apply and get in at Rice, UT-Austin, Texas A&M, and others.

I agree. I'm the PP who's DC was accepted to UT Austin from the DMV. Many of the negative stereotypes are from people who have never stepped foot in Texas. I'm a born and raised Yankee who has lived in eight cities in the US. We lived in Houston for two years and I unexpectedly LOVED it! Houston was wonderfully diverse (of course HUGE Mexican/Mexican-American population as well as large Indian population which was great because DH is from India). Texans work hard and play hard and are among the friendliest people in the country. It was the easiest place to make friends out of all the cities we've lived in. Plus so much creativity comes out of that state and we'd be very happy to have our kid "gone to Texas!!"

I agree that this is all true about TX. I have lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
However, ALL of my TX family members (and most are in the Houston area, which calls itself the most diverse city in the world), regardless of where they live, voted for Trump. I don't think the politics are a reason not to send your kid to TX, but you have to know that they are going to be comfortable generally being in the minority opinion, and know when to keep their mouth shut.

Haha - I'm the Yankee PP who raved about Houston. Everyone in my family in the north voted for Trump too - I'm one of the few liberals in the family so my DC has been around plenty of Trumpsters. But as the other PP said, Austin is solidly blue - and at a university the size of UT, my liberal DC will find their tribe. And DC grew up in the DC bubble - it'll do her/him good to experience a different environment. DC hasn't made a final decision yet - has other options, but I'm hoping for UT.

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UT Alum here. Such a great school, great town. I'd love for my kids to go... but sadly between the stiff competition for OOS plus the cost for OOS, it's not to be.
Congrats to those who got in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A really undervalued school. Guessing many people in the DMV stay away because of the undeserved mediocre ranking.

I think many people from here have negative stereotypes about Texas...TBH

+1 - I am astounded by how negative the stereotypes here are about Texas. Texas has great schools, great food, great culture. I think people let the conservative politics of the last twenty years color their views - but forget or never knew the politics prior - and overlook that VA and MD have similar politics in various corners of those fair states. Many of the cities are vibrant and decidedly not conservative (Houston, Dallas, Austin). I would be proud to have a child apply and get in at Rice, UT-Austin, Texas A&M, and others.

I agree. I'm the PP who's DC was accepted to UT Austin from the DMV. Many of the negative stereotypes are from people who have never stepped foot in Texas. I'm a born and raised Yankee who has lived in eight cities in the US. We lived in Houston for two years and I unexpectedly LOVED it! Houston was wonderfully diverse (of course HUGE Mexican/Mexican-American population as well as large Indian population which was great because DH is from India). Texans work hard and play hard and are among the friendliest people in the country. It was the easiest place to make friends out of all the cities we've lived in. Plus so much creativity comes out of that state and we'd be very happy to have our kid "gone to Texas!!"

I agree that this is all true about TX. I have lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston.
However, ALL of my TX family members (and most are in the Houston area, which calls itself the most diverse city in the world), regardless of where they live, voted for Trump. I don't think the politics are a reason not to send your kid to TX, but you have to know that they are going to be comfortable generally being in the minority opinion, and know when to keep their mouth shut.

Ya that is just plain not true. Stop spreading false information. all of the precincts in which UT students would be voting went for Clinton by a MINIMUM of 40 percentage points. Clinton won over Trump by as high as 70 points in some precincts. Your child will be in an overwhelming majority if they go to UT as a Democrat.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#13.12/30.2684/-97.7438/114932