GeoMex

Don't rely on the utdirect page. Mine still says the same and I was accepted last week.

Yeah, Hyde Park is actually one of my top choices, and the crime statistics are one of the reasons. It seems a quite and nice place, close to the UT and everything one could need. But besides a couple of places I can't seem to find what would be the right choice, mostly because reviews don't help much, because most of the buildings that seem fine at first end up having a bunch of bad reviews because of bad management or stuff like that. Thank you for your help again!

Thank you, I'm at my first filter for apartments/condos, so first I'd like to know what areas do you think are the best for graduate student to live? I think I'll be mainly focused on my studies so I don't mind and actually prefer living in somehow quiet places, but not so boring that I can't go out to do something. Preferably near some kind of grocery store. Safe place. So far I've been checking sites like trulia, yelp, and other apartment finders. Areas like hyde park/ n campus, northwest hills, zilker, arboretum and camino la costa have places that interest me but I'm not sure yet because if it's not a high price it's a shitty place or too far away, but there's always something to think about. Of those places I've found that camino la costa have a fairly low price for what it seems great apartments, and is close to the UT campus, but I'm worried about safety. Even though I'm coming from a violent mexican city, it's always different when you go somewhere you don't know. I'm planning on maybe bringing my car but I'm worried about thieves, since I'm planning on only using my car to go grocery shopping, emergencies, and coming back to Mexico. Also, do you know if it's too difficult to get a permit to drive my mexican car there? or if it's even possible?

Hi, thanks for the post, I'm really excited to go study in Austin. I just have a couple of questions regarding specific apartments buildings I've been looking, neighborhoods and the reviews of the apts. There's a lot of them and I've selected a few that kind of fit what I want, but I'm not sure about them, I could really use the word of someone already living in Austin. Thanks Could you help me out?

Congratulations laocoon! that's awesome and great words of motivation for everyone.

Hi all, anyone knows of good apartments in the range of 800-1100 dpm in the hyde park area? I'm tempting by duval village and mint urban, but don't really know if they're as shown. Any other recommendations?

Probably more stressful. I hated when I had little work to do or none at all some days. So I used it to search for articles and read some stuff

Oh! that's definitely good, less load of work thanks!

I have a questions regarding credits and semester hours, I'm a little doubtful since the system is different from what we have here, specially in undergrad because we couldn't choose any courses, we just had them. The requirement in the UT is 24 semester hours, each course averages in 3 lecture hours, so I'm guessing I will have around 8 courses per semester, is that right?

Thank you and welcome!

Why don't you?

Thank you. I'm wondering if it would be good to ask to visit too, I'd like to meet more faculty members, my POI and some of the future students. Has anyone done this before or know about it?

Well, it will come, and apparently the UTdirect page doesn't update yet, so don't rely on that. I contacted mine telling him, even when he probably knew already. Maybe you should do the same?

Thank you Congratulations IamLorde! I'm sure you'll be accepted after that weekend, it's great news. No, I was emailed by the program coordinator, why?

Thank you, and yes, as some of us have. I hope everyone hear from them soon too.

thank you

Thank you, and I think it will be. How does one respond to those emails? I'm not familiar with the protocol.

I just received an e-mail from the UT, I've been recommended for admission. I'm extremely happy.

Maybe they think we'll ask too many questions lol

That's what I was saying, all those guys don't comment here about getting accepted

Is it yours?

wait, what? locals don't pay? damn it.

Doesn't UH just accepts like 5% of the applicants? like it's way harder to get there than in the UT? I'm guessing this next week there will be more acceptances but I'm not sure if one of us, those who have been accepted seem to not post here often. I feel you, when I got the rejection from CSM even tho it was bad news it kind of made me feel better to just know instead of waiting for the same result for two more months

They told me in march, as in by the end of march they should have finished with it.

That's true, no way of knowing. The only fact is that I was told by them that ALL decisions should be made by march. So, there's that. LMAO at the last part. Why are you so sure you're going to be rejected? I mean, I get the feeling I might, but I'm still somehow hopeful, for the two programs left that I applied. I went there in 2013 and what I got to see is really great, the campus, the JSG, the social vibe, I don't know, maybe it was because there was a lot of people going around and I was excited to go. And yes, literally, every 10 seconds sometimes.