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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm just laughing to myself here at the suggestions to reach out to UT for help with housing costs, or general emotional support. Fat chance. This is a gigantic student body, and they could care less whether you return after freshman year. In fact, they probably hope you don't. They are notoriously AWFUL for low income students of color, which I was when I graduated from a Texas high school. And Austin is not at all culturally similar to Beaumont. UT Austin also has tons of students who love gratuitous displays of wealth. Sure, there will be some groups of the first-gen kids of color. But it's a rough road there without any institutional support for these students.

"UT will have the resources to support students who are coming to campus with fewer resources than the majority of students (guidance about how to afford campus and school-related expenses, mentoring, and a a supportive community of students who have BTDT)."

She NEEDS to go to Davidson. Forget about the other two. There aren't enough POC around, either as students or staff on campus. And the extreme cold is just not something she needs to deal with on top of everything else. At least at Davidson, she can find Mexican food in Charlotte and will have enough African American students to bond with. I don't know anybody at Davidson, but the odds are that there will be at least 2-3 people whose job it is to make sure that she makes it through. Tell her to reach out for help and not to suffer in silence if she needs something. The staff and faculty at a school like that will be responsive. [/quote]
Just 34% of the student body at UT is white. It's 67% at Davidson. 17.4% of Davidson students come from the top 1%, while 16.4% come from the bottom 60% and 4% from the bottom 20%. At UT-Austin, 5% of students come from the top 1%, while 28% come from the bottom 60% and 6% come from the bottom 20%. Additionally, the average poor student at Davidson ends up in the 55th percentile for income, while the average poor student at UT ends up in the 68th percentile. 15% of UT graduates move up two or more income quintiles, while just 7% do at Davidson.

So I'm not sure there is any basis to your claims. The data says otherwise.[/quote]

I wonder when pp graduated from HS?  The "new" UT admissions process has diversified the school quite a bit.  I do not dispute that UT is a huge and more impersonal place, and a student would get more personal attention at a SLAC, but we toured last summer (my DC is not going there, fwiw) and, as an alum of a UT graduate school, I was shocked (in a good way) by the support services available now. So, I disagree with the "without any institutional support" point.  I think UT has changed a lot in that regard in recent years.  In fact, we toured several large state flagships, and they all impressed me with the breadth of the services available.

Did OP say the student was a POC? I didn't see that.

There may be may nice things about Charlotte, but the "Mexican food I Charlotte" thing made me LOL.  All Charlotte Mexican food will do is make OP's young friend sad. Austin isn't Beaumont, but it's a heck of lot closer than NC.

I don't think UT is the automatic choice, and there are things to recommend Davidson (cost not least of all), but I don't think it's a slam dunk. [/quote]

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