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3 hours ago, cattail said:

We started looking into the UK schools. Daughter is pretty set on University of Glasgow. Many undergraduate degrees can be completed in 3 years. Easy to do with the twice daily London flight from Austin on BA.

Why would you fly to London twice in one day?

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We started looking into the UK schools. Daughter is pretty set on University of Glasgow. Many undergraduate degrees can be completed in 3 years. Easy to do with the twice daily London flight from Austin on BA.

My son is at Glasgow. Just finished his Jr year abroad in Mainz, headed back to Glasgow for his Sr year. Yeah, you can finish in three years…but why? It’s college. Enjoy it.
And yeah, it’s not a terrible travel day. But don’t discount another 4 hours of travel (layover, flight, etc) after you land in London. Makes for a 14-15 hr travel day.
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We dropped by UC-Irvine for a college tour this past Wednesday when we were in Anaheim for our Disneyland vacation. Took a Lyft out to Irvine from our hotel. It's a really interesting campus. There's a giant park in the middle and then a couple of rings that go outward from there. The first ring are the original set of campus buildings and they all look like something out of a retro future film from the early 60s. I believe films and TV shows have used the buildings there as backgrounds. The next ring is the more modern buildings. Directly across a pedestrian bridge was a shopping center with a Target, a movie theater, a Trader Joe's, an In-n-Out Burger, and other food options. It is barely a 10 minute drive to the Orange County airport. My daughter really liked the campus and wants to apply. We're touring some of the San Diego schools next month. We're about to meet her college coach so she can get on the essays and debrief him on all the visits we've taken and which schools she liked the best. I think we're going to go down to UT in September so she can get the full tour and we can discuss if the CAP was offered would being at Texas be enough of a motivation to do it. 

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We dropped by UC-Irvine for a college tour this past Wednesday when we were in Anaheim for our Disneyland vacation. Took a Lyft out to Irvine from our hotel. It's a really interesting campus. There's a giant park in the middle and then a couple of rings that go outward from there. The first ring are the original set of campus buildings and they all look like something out of a retro future film from the early 60s. I believe films and TV shows have used the buildings there as backgrounds. The next ring is the more modern buildings. Directly across a pedestrian bridge was a shopping center with a Target, a movie theater, a Trader Joe's, an In-n-Out Burger, and other food options. It is barely a 10 minute drive to the Orange County airport. My daughter really liked the campus and wants to apply. We're touring some of the San Diego schools next month. We're about to meet her college coach so she can get on the essays and debrief him on all the visits we've taken and which schools she liked the best. I think we're going to go down to UT in September so she can get the full tour and we can discuss if the CAP was offered would being at Texas be enough of a motivation to do it. 

That Irvine area is really nice, and super convenient.
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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


That Irvine area is really nice, and super convenient.

Yeah, it's 5 miles from Newport Beach, 1.5 hours from San Diego, 1 hour from downtown LA. You have 2 airports close by. Disneyland is there for some fun. I joked she could work at Disney in the summers. UCI has some great work study requirements to complete your degree which would help you get a leg up on jobs since you would be working directly in the field you're studying in. It felt like a California version of UTSA but with being less of a commuter school and a much better campus and climate. It's not UCLA or UC-Berkeley but it would definitely be a good place to spend 4 years. I feel like she'll like UC-San Diego more when we tour next month. Also going to look at San Diego State. 

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Set up our UT tour for Columbus Day so she doesn't miss another day of school. That's more to decide if 3 years at UT with one somewhere else is something she really wants to do if offered versus 4 full years somewhere else. 

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4 hours ago, mdmost said:

Yeah, it's 5 miles from Newport Beach, 1.5 hours from San Diego, 1 hour from downtown LA. You have 2 airports close by. Disneyland is there for some fun. I joked she could work at Disney in the summers. UCI has some great work study requirements to complete your degree which would help you get a leg up on jobs since you would be working directly in the field you're studying in. It felt like a California version of UTSA but with being less of a commuter school and a much better campus and climate. It's not UCLA or UC-Berkeley but it would definitely be a good place to spend 4 years. I feel like she'll like UC-San Diego more when we tour next month. Also going to look at San Diego State. 

Having worked in that area a ton (OC) — UCI is still heavy commuter. It’s not called University of Chinese Immigrant for nothing. And I’m sure you’ll have noted that it’s egregiously hard to get into a good UC school (all the ones you mentioned including UCSD) being out of state. As in, she might have better luck getting into UT as a non-auto-admit.

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Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn.
Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.

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9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn.
Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.

thats awesome! congrats!

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51 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn.
Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.

 

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thats amazing, and congrats !

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9 hours ago, mdmost said:

We dropped by UC-Irvine for a college tour this past Wednesday when we were in Anaheim for our Disneyland vacation. Took a Lyft out to Irvine from our hotel. It's a really interesting campus. There's a giant park in the middle and then a couple of rings that go outward from there. The first ring are the original set of campus buildings and they all look like something out of a retro future film from the early 60s. I believe films and TV shows have used the buildings there as backgrounds. The next ring is the more modern buildings. Directly across a pedestrian bridge was a shopping center with a Target, a movie theater, a Trader Joe's, an In-n-Out Burger, and other food options. It is barely a 10 minute drive to the Orange County airport. My daughter really liked the campus and wants to apply. We're touring some of the San Diego schools next month. We're about to meet her college coach so she can get on the essays and debrief him on all the visits we've taken and which schools she liked the best. I think we're going to go down to UT in September so she can get the full tour and we can discuss if the CAP was offered would being at Texas be enough of a motivation to do it. 

Honestly Irvine is the most "commuter" school of the UC system, even over Merced and Riverside.  I think it's fine but Irvine feels soulless to me.  Santa Cruz is cool as shit, and Santa Barbara is only a slight step down from LA, Berkeley, and San Diego which now are basically the top 3.  The quality at the UC schools frankly amazes me, it's been a while since I attended UT but I am blown away by the effort these schools put into their students and their quality of instruction.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn.
Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.

Bonn is boring as fuck and not interesting, my cousin did his undergrad there.  But the surrounding area is phenomenal and Koln is a wonderful city.  You can go wrong with the entire area to the west (the Eifel) and south (the Koblenz/Moselle area).  Great wines, wonderful castles, great cycling, and super hiking.  I love the section of the Rhine between Sankt Goar and Koblenz so much.

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