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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school is  very big.  DD had friends who attended.  They did fine but did note that first two years it was nothing to have classes with 200-300 students.  Most never met their professor.  If you can deal with that try it.  [b]But, those on this thread say its really tough to get into?  That's really not the case.  know many 3.5s who have been accepted but went elsewhere[/b]. [/quote]

The only correct reply about the difficulty of admission on this thread was the first one[/quote]

Wrong.  Demand for admission from within the State of Texas is so high that the number of out of state students they can admit is severely limited.  They can do this because they don't need the money.  UT's endowment is second only to Harvard.  This article linked below about state schools taking increasing numbers of out of state students for their $$ shows UT near the bottom with only 5% out of state.  The latest stat I can find says that 32% of out of state applicants were accepted, but I've heard that those numbers have gone down recently.  I couldn't find the number for Michigan, which is interesting, because they're at 40% out of state, and have been as high as 50% recently.  If those who are saying it is easy to get into are going on information that is more than a few years old, it's way out of date.  As noted by others, the new system that guarantees admission to the top % of every high school class in Texas has greatly reduced the number of other students they can take, even from in state.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/18/college-admissions-which-state-schools-give-an-edge-to-out-of-state-students.html

All this said, I would go to a smaller university for undergrad and go to UT for graduate school.  And I would worry about your kid not wanting to come back east.  [/quote]

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