We will be visitng OU and Univ of Ark next week for my dgtr (currently a junior in HS). Wanting to find the best university for her within our state tuition budget, she will definitely qualify for in state scholarships with her ACT scores. Want to hear from those who have been to these colleges or lived in the cities..would you put your daughter there??
Thanks for the advice, love my mamapedia friends! Littleesmom...sorry for the confusion, she likes UT but would feel more comfortable at a smaller school. We'll be in Austin in June for a visit, but chances are she'll already be in love with another school. Scholarships are available at OU and U of ARk for her rank and test scores that bridge the difference between state residence and out of state tuition. What do you know about OBU??
I lived in Ar. for a short time & had tons of friends that went to UOA and I can tell you they loved it & Fayetteville is beautiful, great food & shopping.
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My neighbor has 2 sons. 1 a jr at OSU and 1 a Freshman at Arkansas.
They are very happy with both schools. Both boys are involved with sports. I understand there is no out of state tuition for either school. I can get details if you need it, I don't know the details.
We have several neighbor girls currently at OU and a couple of graduating cheerleaders heading to OU .
All of the those schools seem popular around here for Plano grads.
Try Baylor... We took our daughter there and she loved it. What we learned was ... Once you get into the area of your interest, scholarships come out of the woodwork. Great campus ( Baylor bubble)
Good luck and happy visiting!!!
I am a Big 12 girl, hubby went to OSU, I have a degree from TTU and will have one from OU in May. That said, I'd go to UT if I could pick again. I love Austin, it's such a fun city! Arkansas is in a prettier area than Norman, but OU is academically a better school. Although I am confused, you want in state tuition for OK or AR schools, but live in TX? Not sure how that works. What does she want to do? They've got different specialties so that might help her decide. If it were my daughter, I'd want her to go to OSU, Stillwater is smaller and had the safest campus in the Big 12 (at least when we were there a few years ago) while still being a really fun area. Go to all the schools, I wish I'd taken advantage of college days when i was still in HS!
I went to college at a jr. college then got a full scholarship to OU. I hated it, every minute I was there I felt like I didn't belong. I loved the town and the
housing I had but I never felt like it was where I was supposed to be.
One reason I felt so out of place was the class sizes. In one of my gen ed classes that the degree plan had I was in a theater with about 300 other students. The professor started out by stating (The numbers are just for the example of being a number the professor sited, not for the purpose of adding to anything) "In this class of 310 students I am going to tell you now, 10 will make an "A", 20 will make a "B", 200 will make a "C", 40 will make a "D", and 15 will make an "F". I don't care who you are, if everyone makes the same grade on the tests I will draw names out of a hat to assign grades. I have to meet the bell curve expectation. If my grades don't reflect that curve then I am teaching incorrectly and can get fired. So either I get to know you by name because you ask intelligent questions and I think you are a person trying or you get drawn out of a hat". I dropped that course right away.
I disliked the large classes, the impersonal attitude, the whole situation.
I worked in the drama department for work study and loved the things I got to sew and make. But I still knew I was supposed to be somewhere else.
I transferred to Stillwater, OSU, at the end spring and never looked back. The classes were smaller, the professors cared if the students learned the material, the different departments each have scholars who are the top of their field. They use many of the professors books as the texts, as many other colleges use these OSU professors books too.
A lot of my high school friends went to OBU in Shawnee. They each loved their experience there too. Some went to St. Gregory's next door. They are both good colleges. If you are Baptist then OBU is the college for you. She will have the opportunity to make lifelong friendships, meet a good stable Baptist man, marry him perhaps, she will have a vast knowledge of the Baptist doctrine and the other subjects too. OBU is one of the most expensive colleges though from what I remember back when I wanted to go.
So, if I could choose an Oklahoma school for your family it would be OSU. To me it is the best of a lot of those various worlds. There are strong on campus religious groups she can join and meet people, a lot of fun to have for sure too.
