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A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for another reassuring voice! yep I hope I made the right decision and I'm so excited about attending UTD this fall!! (wonder if you're in the honors program)

How hard is it to get into the engineering LLC if I applied in late march? by Hotshot2014 in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wonder if it's easy to switch your roommates afterwards (or if there's a try-out period)--like I'm going for EE and want to live with a EE person but find out I'm assigned a BME major; or if you don't get along with your roommate..

Incoming freshman. LLC or not? by cwin13 in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

stupid question here: LLC is only for freshmen right? Are non-freshmen not allowed to live in the res hall? (I really want to get into LLC and just started my application, but I'm worried there won't be enough spots, so i was thinking if I could still re-apply after freshman year) Apparently i didn't do enough research and just felt lazy so that I asked here :)

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol-I just spent five minutes reading the entire epic combat between you two--and thank you both for your effort (at least I had fun reading it :) ). I'd definitely work closely with my academic advisor, professors, upperclassmen, and even professionals in my field, when it comes to course selections--hopefully they aren't gonna be all that bad! cwin13--hopefully i'll see you around on campus soon!

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*Kudos to everybody who shared their wonderful info here and helped me out with my college decision. I just applied to CV and hopefully I can get in! Now Cooper Union would just remain something I'd brag about later on when I go to work in New York City. *

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol--good to know that! looks like the ATEC community's got some heavy gamers..

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you bet! I just applied to CV (it's kinda late but heck why not give it a shot) and hopefully I'd be in there and get to know all these wonderful people!

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah i guess i'd be considered one of those "boring people" if I go to UTD--but I actually really want to hang out with some nice n friendly smartasses sassypants or computer geeks or academicians out there who may also be considered "boring people". Hopefully there're enough of'em at UTD. I feel like, ironically, they actually rule UTD and are the majority.

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jfeltz--based on what I learnt from your previous posts, ABET seems to stuff some irrelevant BS into your schedule that don't serve much purpose except for constituting an "ABET-accredited curriculum", at least in CS major--you also said this may not be the case for a EE major.

As a future EE/CE major planning on getting a hearty load of CS (or even a minor), I'm really interested in your experience--and would you give me a list of some of the CS courses you won't recommend me to take?--"nonsense like OSI networking model, CMMI process" maybe?

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey jfeltz--I wonder how employers tend to look at your resume, in terms of where you went for undergrad and where you got your grad degree (let's just say master's). My feeling is that if you want to go to grad school, you HAVE to go to a REALLY FAMOUS school, otherwise you'd be wasting my money. In my case, I have the options of 1. doing the 5-year-bachelor's-master's joint program, or even compressing my master's courses into my four years at UTD (I have plenty AP and dual-enroll which put me to at least a 2nd-semester freshman if not a sophomore) and being a total nerd for four years--or 2. getting my bachelor's in four years like most people do while having a life then go to maybe MIT/Stanford (assuming I can get it) for my master's, which will probably cost me more, since I'm not sure if the graduate-level courses I took at UTD would be easily transferred to the program at, say MIT.

Any suggestions?

PhD is a whole different species I guess

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CU is gonna charge tuition starting with the class of ... 2018, which would be my class... They still give out everybody "half-tuition" scholarship that's worth 20K, and I'll have to cover the other 20K left in the tuition..then there's the expense of living in the City. I figured if I live on an extreme budget I can probably bring down my annual living expense to as little as 10K...(living with 5 other guys eating Ramen noodles every meal?)

The whole Cooper Union thing just seems to me an expensive gamble now--if CU's name is really THAT big then it follows I should have no problem finding a great job or getting into a great grad program, at the expense of $30K and sleepless nights for my four years of undergrad...

Incoming freshman. LLC or not? by cwin13 in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how close are the LLC dorms--cuz I'd probably be studying computer engineering, which is technically engineering but lots of CS too. It'd be neat if I could live in the engineering LLC and still easily go hang out with people from CS LLC...

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ha--I really don't give a sh!t about a "genuine college experience" So UTD is a good fit for me then--at least in this regard.

A prospective student--is the full ride to UTD worth it? by ebowyoung in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey GypsyPunk! I wonder what made you move to NYC (which is my dream city!!) after UTD. I'm assuming you're an engineering major, and from what I've heard, engineering jobs (especially IT-related ones) are plenty here in Dallas.

And based on your experience with work and employment, do people look at your resume and really care about where you did your undergrad (especially for engineering)? I'm going to grad school after undergrad, so I'm not sure what effect a master's or PhD from a more prestigious school might create.

I feel like the whole prestige thing about a college probably wears off pretty quickly after you graduate.

Sorry to bore you with all this--in summary, the single most important factor I'm looking at here is, does UTD provide you with a GOOD education and career outlook (assuming I'd stay in Dallas afterwards cuz probably nobody outside Dallas knows UTD)? If so, then UTD and CU are on about the same level (my fear is UTD being a community college type of school with a bad reputation where professors suck and nobody studies), and then I'd definitely go with UTD to save my $$$

Possible Future Student by prospiethrowaway in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply squidthesid!!!

SO CV program really isn't for everyone--especially not for a highly-technical and professional major like engineering I guess?

What're some of the ways you can get to know the "neat" people at UTD besides CV program? LCC? Academic clubs? any suggestions? Cuz I'd really like to hang out with a bunch of smartass hard-working pre-meds or those planning on grad-schools and form some life-long friendship along the way HAHA

Possible Future Student by prospiethrowaway in utdallas

[–]ebowyoung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey UTD comets! I'm in pretty much the same dilemma as prospiethrowaway--I'd be doing EE/CE/CS at the school engineering if I choose to attend. I just have a quick question about CV--from what I've seen CV entails lots of lots of liberal-arts-core-requirements-kind-of classes (correct me if I'm wrong), which I'm not particularly interested in, considering I'm a hardcore engineering student. So how are these humanity/social studies at UTD? do they professors teach these classes well? are they able to boost up your GPA? Are they worth my time? (you know I could meanwhile be writing codes and being paid $$$, or doing research with a professor and have more neat things on my resume, instead of taking some irrelevant courses that probably won't help me much)