The University of Texas at Austin Top Questions

My classmates are smart, funny, interesting, amazing, good froends with me, and the best!

My classmates are helpful, intelligent, involved in both research and at least an extracurricular activity such as intramural sports or a cultural organization.

Outgoing, liberal, and open-minded students from a variety of backgrounds.

The classmates that I associate with are all dedicated to their degrees and love what they have chosen to persue . They are fun loving and great friends who would bend over backwards to help each other out.

A great majority of my classes have 800 or more students. To be honest, I don't personally know many of them. The ones I do know, take the classwork very seriously. UT is a very hard university. If you are not disiplined, focused and driven, there is a very slim chance of you being successful at UT.

My classmates can be cut-throat because I am in a competitive Business Honors Program. On the other hand, because we are in a tight-knit community with class sizes typical of a high school classroom, we really get to know one another and will form cliques.

They are very diverse and optimistic.

I am surrounded by a generation of musical geniuses that inspire passion for music in everyone around them.

I'm a minority at UT and I haven't experienced any racial issues. The make up of the school is majority caucasian with about 10{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} African American, 10-20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} Hispanic, 10-20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} Asian, etc. What's great is that at UT there are student organizations for just about every ethnicity and religion. The student body is very much laid back. You'll often time find students walking around in t-shirts and flip flop (the school uniform LOL). The atmosphere is really relaxing, the people are friendly and the campus is beautiful.

My classmates are friendly, studious young men and women who are excited to help out other classmates with notes and study groups.

The classmates are incredibly welcoming, fun, hardworking, and friendly.

Diverse and social yet strongly academic individuals.

Divided equally into the maniacal overachievers and the drunken fools.

Everyone is determined, yet helpful, clever, and always generally relaxed but ready to have fun.

LGBTQ groups are small and political. The supervisors rarely return phone calls or emails. If they do call you back you have to probe them for information which can be very annoying and frustrating. That happens a lot at UT At Austin because most people are too curt and busy to help you. Updates are rare. If anything occurs it's usually at a bar or at the campus but turn out is small. This is Texas and most people are not out of the closet due to shame, fear, and ridiculous religious oppression. If you are LGBTQ or an ethnic minority you will feel out of place. University of Texas at Austin is still highly traditional. LGBTQ is very left of center and creates noticeable tension within the diverse population. Most students come from traditional, conservative, and religious backgrounds. LGBTQ people are often times viewed as being as bad as pedophiles in Texas. Do you really want to go here if you are an out liberal? I don't think so. There is a good amount of political and social tensions because there are democrats, republicans, and other types mixed into the student population. Administration favors and takes sides with particular students over others. In my opinion that created a hostile environment that inhibited my learning.

The student body is extremely diverse at UT. Students come here from all over the world, and while most of them are from Texas there is still an interesting mix of personality on campus. People can be themselves when they're here which is why almost nothing is surprising to see on campus anymore. From funky clothes to singing out loud while walking to class, anything goes.

Diversity, diversity, diversity.

Every student at UT is ambitious and hard working.

The people you meet at the University of Texas at Austin are extremely educated, diverse, and probably the most influencial people that you will ever meet; they will eventually become the basis of your college experience and your support through the difficulties of life.

Studious, passionate, friendly.