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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trinity University. Super well resourced school with merit to give. For kids who are open to going South, tempted by Alabama money, but want a SLAC .. here's your school. Intellectually rigorous, no athletic scholarships at all. Great new buildings, fantastic dorms. Engineering, accounting, Chinese (one of the best in the country) .. they deliver the goods. And San Antonio is a gem.

Couldn't talk my dd into looking and I don't blame here, but it's a great option[/quote]

ON paper, maybe. The reality is that the student body is really, really native Texan and a shockingly high number of students [i]go home on the weekends.[/i]  To their homes in Houston and Dallas particularly.

I don't understand it, but that is the culture currently. [/quote]

Strange.

We happened across it on our way to try to go to the zoo (we aborted mission because it cost an arm and a leg) with my MIL who lives north of SA.

Are they driving home? Those aren’t close. And TX isn’t known for public transport options [/quote]

I am told that they fly, and tickets are cheap enough on SWA if you plan ahead.  El Paso was another city where kids go home on the weekend.

Again, I don't know why. But with a relatively small student body, I am to understand it feels very desolate on campus Fri nite - Sunday nite. [/quote]

Fascinating use of the passive voice.

You are told this by whom, exactly? It  doesn’t feel credible. Heading home to Dallas on weekends would be the equivalent of going from the DMV to Raleigh, NC or Brooklyn every weekend.

San Antonio to El Paso would be like DMV to Detroit or Cape Cod.[/quote]

You have no reason to believe me of course but my source is my best friend and her kid attends currently.  Importantly, kid is not a Texan and so does not fly from SA to Houston etc most  weekends like so many of their dormmates.

WRT to money and flying, are you serious?  Mom and Dad buying budget airline plane tix is NBD for a lot of families, such as my own.  (Although my kid at a different school tends to fly Spirit Air or SWA or Delta to the Northeast. RT can be had for $102) [/quote]

Does your kid fly Spirit or SWA or Delta *most* weekends?

No one is saying that some kids don’t fly home occasionally. But every weekend? And so many kids are doing this that the place feels abandoned and desolate on weekends? Strains credulity. [/quote]

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