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  1. 4 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    Oh I'm resigned to the fact I'm going to gave to fill them out, just wondering how much aid is dependent on that and how many hoops are you jumping through?  

    It all depends on the school.  Some schools give tons of merit-based aid, and some give basically none.  Go to their individual websites, particularly the smaller schools and go to their admissions and financial aid pages.  Most are pretty transparent.  Made the mistake on the twins not to look that up ahead of time and visited some schools that give very little merit-based.  Won't do that again with kid 3 so she doesn't get her hopes up.

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  2. 33 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, I think we're close to out on Trinity.  She got 2 scholarships for something like $30K annual but it still leaves a big bill, being a very expensive school, and we don't have a clear picture on how it lines up with a desire to go to a great grad school.  They have very few graduate programs, so if anyone has an idea how a Trinity degree affects students down the line trying to do grad work at Stanford, UT, and the like, I'm all ears.  It obviously has a great rep as an undergrad institution in Texas, but beyond that, I just don't know.

    #wrongthread?

    I think we are close to deciding yes to Trinity. She competed and got the Trinity Tower scholarship which is full tuition. Gets the cost under 20K. I think Reed is her slight favorite, but they offered very little $. Would be almost 40K a year more. 
     

     I also think Trinity provides a great path for grad school. The fact that they have few graduate programs is irrelevant, most small liberal arts schools don’t, and they send tons of students to grad school (including me DePauw grad straight to UT law school). 

  3. 38 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

    That's an odd combo.  Kind of like where you see a football recruit is down to Bama, Clemson and Tech.  Does MSU have some program he loves or something?

    Mechanical Engineering. Michigan State offered him a full tuition and fees scholarship in addition to paid research positions with professors as a freshman. Got the cost to under 10K. Also a chance to live somewhere else since he is born and raised in Austin. That said, he is probably 85% at UT. He got into Cockrell, admitted into engineering honors and got a 10K scholarship. He really likes Rice but they are offering $0. 

  4. 1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

    Yes, my daughter just saw an email to one of her CAP friends from UT stating that he's now accepted to UT Austin. Not sure who all the email was sent to. She heard from one of her friends who's dad is somewhat connected to UT that UT didn't get enough Liberal Arts acceptances, so maybe this only applies to LA's majors?

    Hope so. My daughter got CAP’d and applied to Liberal Arts. She appealed and it was denied. I’m not holding my breath. She also didn’t accept a CAP agreement so don’t know if that matters. 

  5. KK<99 all in PF and flopped set of 10s loses to flopped set of Qs all in on turn. One shouldnt play poker on Valentine’s Day (although wife and older daughter are out of town for college trip, so I’m ok on that end). 

  6. 1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

    Son got into Trinity early app, with a big ass pile of merit money.  Unless Tulane or a couple of other schools show up with money, I think the boy will be in San Antonio next fall.

    More likely than not where my daughter ends up as well.

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  7. 58 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    This is probably an unpopular opinion but what kind of degree almost matters as much as where the degree is from. I'd rather send my kid to another school like SMU or Arkansas for a Business degree than send my kid to UT for some un-hirable Liberal Arts degree. A UT degree only means so much if you cannot find a gainfully employed job because you graduated with an Art History degree or someshit, no offense intended to Art History Majors.

    Let's just say there's a reason for the student loan bubble which is about to burst. I know a kid who went through grad school at UT to get a Masters in Hindi. He is white. What the fuck is a white dude with a Masters in Hindi going to do for a job, one that will pay off his student loan debt and provide him funds by which to live? There are a already 1.3B people who speak Hindi, AND they all have IT degrees. The fuck.

    Yeah, I disagree with this.  I'm not going to force my daughter to get a degree in something she has no interest in just because it potentially makes her more employable.  If I wanted to do that, I'd tell her to be a plumber.  This is higher education, not trade school.  A degree from the College of Liberal Arts at a prestigious school like UT tells employers they can think and learn and write and communicate.  Slapping a Business degree on a mediocre education doesn't make it any better.

    Now, I do agree that you shouldn't be borrowing huge sums of money for completely shitastic degrees, but I do think there are tons of liberal arts degrees and colleges out there that are worthwhile.

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  8. 7 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    The "I didn't get into Plan II but got into Engineering Honors trauma" can be quite unbearable. You may want to get him counseling. Thoughts and prayers!!!

    Congrats to the kid! Hearing how fucking hard it was to get into Texas this year, that fact that he not only got into Engineering but the Honors program is an amazing accomplishment.

    Yeah, I know.  Poor kid may never recover.  :)  Thanks a bunch. His twin sister is appealing her CAP status, but as I noted she has lots of good options elsewhere if she chooses.  It will be hard for them to split up, but had to happen sooner or later (we aren't from Arkansas or Oklahoma for God's sake).

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  9. 10 minutes ago, field said:

    My daughter accepted Plan II last night.  So unbelievably proud of her.  We're out of state (out of state tuition be damned), which makes her even being accepted to UT at all so cool.  

    Congrats, that is awesome!  My son got into the Engineering Honors program and he got a nice scholarship offer this weekend which surprised us.  He was rejected by Plan II, which may have been because he can't follow directions and failed to list Plan II or a liberal arts major as his second choice major, which appears to be a requirement.  Good life lesson for him to pay attention to details.

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  10. On 1/23/2020 at 9:27 PM, chitwood said:

    Sounds right. My daughter just called me crying as she got capped. Missed top 6% at Anderson by three spots and 1430 SAT. 

    She decided to pass on CAP. Going to appeal the decision for the heck of it and see what happens. She got into Reed, Trinity, Wooster, Hendrix, Rhodes and Willamette with all except Reed offering enough $ to be equivalent with UT, so she has great options. Will be interesting to see what she chooses if she gets in on appeal since UT is probably (but not definitely) where her twin brother is going. 

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