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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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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.

We’ve spent a fair bit of time there. Academically and politically, Bonn has a lot going on, so that’s good for her, as that’s why she’s there. Also, it had the best program for the degree she wants (she was also accepted at Koln and Tubingen, and another school in Vilnius, but Bonn was first choice). But yeah, we love Koln, and we’ve spent a lot of time in the Koblenz area (we have friends who are like family in the area). The Rhineland is really pretty and full of things to do.
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14 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

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.

It might be. She liked that the school offered 600 different club options to get involved and meet people. Her high school is basically a commuter school since everyone is from all over the Dallas area. She travels 20-30 minutes to hang out with friends or spend the night. I don't think that would bother her as much. I don't think it will rate as highly after she sees UC San Diego or San Diego State. The California app lets you apply to multiple schools so we'll fire some off to places like UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly. We're trying to cast a wide net and see what offers she gets. Then she has some time to decide a fit and we can take other trips to see what's the best fit. Ultimately, I think she'd be fine at UTSA. 

We put some of these schools in different tiers. I think schools like Trinity, Colorado College, and UC-Boulder would get her out of her shell and out into the world to see and do things. UTSA, UC-Irvine, Colorado State would all be ones where she probably doesn't get out as much and does more of what she's doing now. Honestly, that's okay too. It's her college experience. We just want a place that fits and isn't hard for us to get up there. It's not like when my wife and I went to college and we didn't really need or want our parents visiting. She's still a kid that's having difficulty standing on her own two feet. It's getting better though. 

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We toured UTSA as our CAP and true worst case fall back so we could limit number of apps, he’s at 8 now counting UT and UTSA. It’s a really decent option for in state and absolutely a good choice for a kid that’s maturing like fine wine. And it’s super affordable. Don’t let haters hate on UTSA. 

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Honestly, Trinity felt a little weird to us.  It seemed like a difficult campus to navigate.  My daughter had an offer to either study percussion there or minor in music and major in something else, and while both options knocked out a huge chunk of the tuition it just didn't feel right.

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1 hour ago, troph said:

We toured UTSA as our CAP and true worst case fall back so we could limit number of apps, he’s at 8 now counting UT and UTSA. It’s a really decent option for in state and absolutely a good choice for a kid that’s maturing like fine wine. And it’s super affordable. Don’t let haters hate on UTSA. 

 

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18 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

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.

 

i went to college in kingsville, bonn has to be x10 better 

except for golf every friday, noon to sunset. followed by cards and bbq until sun rise

dove hunts saturdays 

mix in fishing 

mix in saturday nights in the reynosa clubs 

damn great texmex 

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Honestly, Trinity felt a little weird to us.  It seemed like a difficult campus to navigate.  My daughter had an offer to either study percussion there or minor in music and major in something else, and while both options knocked out a huge chunk of the tuition it just didn't feel right.

Trinity felt a lot like a TAG school. It is very small and that's not bad for our daughter. She really liked Colorado College for that same reason. We're going to a small college fair next Sunday and have a list of some schools we want to find out more about. I think the smaller size could be better for her but conversely she really liked how big UT and UC-Boulder were. 

2 hours ago, troph said:

We toured UTSA as our CAP and true worst case fall back so we could limit number of apps, he’s at 8 now counting UT and UTSA. It’s a really decent option for in state and absolutely a good choice for a kid that’s maturing like fine wine. And it’s super affordable. Don’t let haters hate on UTSA. 

I think UTSA will be a safety school even if CAP isn't offered to her. She should get in automatically with her SAT score. It's kind of amusing how big we make the SAT and hardly anyone wants the score or uses it except Texas schools. We all love San Antonio and the surrounding area so I think she would enjoy it for 4 years. My only concern is it being so heavily commuter with SA locals but as I said above, she has that situation now so it wouldn't be hard to do. 

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1 minute ago, mdmost said:

Trinity felt a lot like a TAG school. It is very small and that's not bad for our daughter. She really liked Colorado College for that same reason. We're going to a small college fair next Sunday and have a list of some schools we want to find out more about. I think the smaller size could be better for her but conversely she really liked how big UT and UC-Boulder were. 

I think UTSA will be a safety school even if CAP isn't offered to her. She should get in automatically with her SAT score. It's kind of amusing how big we make the SAT and hardly anyone wants the score or uses it except Texas schools. We all love San Antonio and the surrounding area so I think she would enjoy it for 4 years. My only concern is it being so heavily commuter with SA locals but as I said above, she has that situation now so it wouldn't be hard to do. 

I was kinda humbled when I figured that out. Test scores are my son’s worst aspect of his resume, he’s auto to UTSA too. 

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