This UT-alum FrontBurnervian tells a story that is representative of four emails I’ve received:
OU has 196 National Merit Scholars this year. My daughter is one of them, and I was amazed at how much attention she got from OU and how little she got from UT, my alma mater.
OU sent a representative to her high school to sell the school to all the kids who made one of the National Merit levels. The OU people sent us many pieces of mail, made some phone calls, invited her up for a personal tour of the campus in which she met three potential professors one-on-one. UT invited her to a two-day colloquium, which we attended, and sent a few pieces of mail. The difference was eye-opening. OU said they’d love to have her. We got the sense from UT that it was the other way around.
The price difference amounted to about $6K per year, which in our case will be the difference between her graduating debt-free and not. I guess for future students the difference will be $9K, although I suppose UT will find a way to make offers to students it really wants.Â
