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(Throwaway account to respond to your throwaway account) If you’re interested in CS, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, with National Merit, check out UT Dallas. Th
by utdpromospam 7y ago
(Throwaway account to respond to your throwaway account) If you’re interested in CS, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, with National Merit, check out UT Dallas. They have a full ride for National Merit, and especially if you’re interested in computer science, there’s a honors program just for CS. Its not a top school or anything, but if money is at all a concern, definitely look into it.
- acollins1331 7y agoI don't need to make a throwaway account to tell the parent that they probably don't want to live in Texas.
- dang 7y agoI unfortunately just saw this, but need to tell you: please don't post regional flamebait to HN. It leads to flamewars like this one, which we emphatically don't want here. We've already had to warn you before about not breaking the site guidelines, and unfortunately it seems like you've been breaking them a lot. That leads to getting banned here, and I don't want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on? The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
- social_quotient 7y agoGeez, what’s wrong with Texas?
- journalctl 7y agoIt’s hot and you can’t be black/queer/female there.
- ozzmotik 7y agothe hot thing is true but as someone who was born and raised in Texas and spent 28 years there I do think that you're somewhat exaggerating with that other bit
- selimthegrim 7y agoBarbara Jordan’s ghost is spinning in her grave
- collegespam 7y agoAhh yes, as everyone knows, Texas is populated exclusively by straight white men. In reality, I live in Houston, which is the most diverse city in the nation. Maybe do your homework before flaming?
- amyjess 7y agoHi, I'm a queer woman in Texas. UT Dallas alumna even.
- some_random 7y agoDidn't you hear? The US is nothing but barbarian wasteland outside of California.
- aty268 7y agoApparently, yet masses of people are flocking to the 20th century wasteland Texas from California anyhow.
- droithomme 7y agoWell Texas used to be OK before all the people from California moved there.
- texasthrowaway 7y agoI think a lot of people will find Texas (and many other states, with a few exceptions) to be very American, for lack of a better word. This globalized world seems to give many an international perspective on things, and it's hard not to want to live in a place with cultural diversity and influences. Places like New York, Seattle, LA and SF feel way more international and diverse, and once you're there, you don't imagine yourself going back to, say, a place like Dallas. Nothing intrinsically wrong with it, but different strokes for different folks. I'd personally feel like I had traveled back to the 20th century if I had to move there.
- selimthegrim 7y agoThere was a tweet going around about the recent ALCS to the effect of “The Yankees are losing to Houston because it’s the most diverse food city in the country and New York has 23 chains named Sweetgreens”
- CydeWeys 7y agoNYC is an unbelievably diverse food city though. You can get anything here. So that tweet doesn't really land. I'm not saying Houston isn't good either (haven't been), but NYC is great by that metric.
- selimthegrim 7y agohttps://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1185045786813448192 https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1185045786813448192
- amyjess 7y agoDallas is one of the most diverse parts of the US. The sheer amount of different ethnic food I regularly eat here is mind-boggling, and it actually made it very hard to pick a place when I was considering moving a few years ago (I wanted a place that was both just as diverse and just as suburban as Dallas; I ended up deciding I'd pick Vegas in case circumstances drove me to leave), and I've interacted with so many people from so many different countries and cultures.
- aty268 7y agoWhat a shortsighted, useless comment. I live in Austin, life here is wonderful and predominantly liberal with no income tax and high salaries for a software engineer. I wouldn't live anywhere else. People are leaving California and NY to live in Texas for a reason. My girlfriends parents are hyper liberal beach bums from California who moved to Dallas and said they will never move back.
- 40four 7y agoAustin is an exception to the rule. Would you live in any other cities in Texas? I wouldn't. It's so freaking hot, and it's mostly an ugly state to look at. Not trying to be mean to Texas :) I just like green trees and plants, and sub 100 degree summers! Only my personal preference, I get others preference differs. I don't fault people who enjoy Texas :)
- aty268 7y agoYes, Dallas and Houston are both pretty decent and diverse cities for tech. Dallas still has some old country money people, but has become much more liberal these past few years as people from out of state are moving there. I agree austin is an exception, but dallas will be soon as well. I can't count the number of insanely liberal people I know who moved from California to Dallas.
- 40four 7y agoAustin is cool... enjoyed the time I spent there. Anywhere that has a great live music scene I think I can be happy! Was only in Dallas briefly but I wasn't very impressed. I didn't get a great feeling there. Never been to Huston, but a friend of mine grew up there and always spoke highly of it. I just have a hard time with super hot climates, I enjoy a more moderate temp :)
- collegespam 7y agoI live in Texas and am quite happy here. I don't appreciate your needlessly-disparaging remarks. Why wouldn't I want to live here? Lots of jobs, low taxes.
- stevespang 7y agoMy kid graduated Westlake in Austin, TX 2016 with 52 AP hrs, about top 15% of his class, not within the top 7% required to get automatic entry into UT Austin. But he could not get past 2000 on the SAT despite taking it several times (may not be a good test taker). He did apply though at UT Austin in Natural Sciences, Texas A&M ranked 40th nationally in Comp. Sci., and a host of lesser schools. UT Dallas offered him a scholarship right off the bat, but his luck UT Austin accepted him, not on SAT but likely on AP hrs. and his resume, captain tennis team, etc., etc, he was able to graduate in 3 years with no student loan debt and about a "B" average in Comp Sci., now a software engineer in Austin. I think UT Dallas has a lot going for it. UT Austin ranked 7th nationally in Comp. Sci., so within the top ten that high tech corporations like to hire from. Texas is hot 6 months of the year, but the comment about no LBGT is dead wrong. Texas State, a lesser univ. 50 miles down the road has become a hotbed of LBGT, all the nearby streets are head shops, quicky loans, tattoo parlors and bars. Go figure.
- amyjess 7y agoI went to UT Dallas, and I got a full-ride scholarship without even having to apply for it. I had no extracurriculars to speak of, and my grades were good but not the best (I was in the top 10% of my class, but nowhere near the top of that). IIRC, it was the third-highest scholarship tier they offered at the time (started Fall 2003). Tuition + mandatory fees + a few hundred a month (forgot the exact number) credit for Waterview rent. No stipend, though, that's only in the two highest tiers.