How accepting is the University of Texas at Austin with other cultures?
I absolutely love the University of texas and I am thinking of applying there. I am from Massachusetts and have heard that Texas isn’t known for accepting African Americans. I am Bi-Racial and grew up in an all white household and all of my friends are white, my mom is kind of nervous about sending me to a school where there is a lot of racial tension. I told her that there is a lot of southern hospitality, is this true or is there a lot of racial tension at the school.
UTs pretty friendly. Like all colleges, people of the same race tend to stick together. Only bad thing is that there aren’t that many blacks there, maybe around 5% of the student body. But overall, the school’s pretty accepting of others and their cultures and beliefs.
Honestly, you’d probably be better off at another school.
a. UT doesn’t accept a lot of Out-of-Staters and doesn’t offer them that good of Financial Aid
b. If you have the stats to get in, you can probably also get into a lot of very good schools, such as Vandy, Rice, Emory, UVa, and maybe even Duke, which will probably offer better Financial Aid.
c. UT is 90%+ Texan, so you might feel out-of-place or isolated your first semester or two.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
UTs pretty friendly. Like all colleges, people of the same race tend to stick together. Only bad thing is that there aren’t that many blacks there, maybe around 5% of the student body. But overall, the school’s pretty accepting of others and their cultures and beliefs.
Honestly, you’d probably be better off at another school.
a. UT doesn’t accept a lot of Out-of-Staters and doesn’t offer them that good of Financial Aid
b. If you have the stats to get in, you can probably also get into a lot of very good schools, such as Vandy, Rice, Emory, UVa, and maybe even Duke, which will probably offer better Financial Aid.
c. UT is 90%+ Texan, so you might feel out-of-place or isolated your first semester or two.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Christopher S is right in that it’s harder for non-Texans to get into UT, and that would probably be more isolating for you than being bi-racial. In Austin, many students will be local or be a few hours from their friends and family, so you may have to put out more effort to make friends with people, but as far as your race, I doubt that should be a concern.
Austin is the hippy town of Texas and UT is known for being a bunch of liberal kids that pride themselves on being more open minded than the rest of the state. We may think your accent’s weird and laugh when you say the salsa is too hot, but other than that we’ll be glad to prove that UT and Austin rule.
Of course, if you’re thinking another UT, it depends on the town you mean.
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