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Old 10-04-2010, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Broomfield, CO
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I personally would expand your range of cities a little further. Seattle is an ok place, but it's riddled with crime, high costs of living, and tons of druguse. Austin is nothing more than a big college town that thinks it's something more. Portland or Denver all the way BABY!!!!


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Hi everyone,

I'm a college student from Holland and I'm going on exchange next year for 4 months (aug-dec). Now my problem is that I've never been to the US so I don't know what the cities are like and therefore I'm hoping you can help me.
I will probably choose between Seattle (UW) or Austin (UT), (other options being LA and Ann Arbor). So, could you tell me about the main differences between Seattle and Austin besides the climate, of course, and what do you think is a better/nicer college town. Thanks in advance!
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Old 10-04-2010, 09:49 PM
 
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I personally would expand your range of cities a little further. Seattle is an ok place, but it's riddled with crime, high costs of living, and tons of druguse. Austin is nothing more than a big college town that thinks it's something more. Portland or Denver all the way BABY!!!!
riddled with crime? not really, Seattle is very safe.

UW compared to UT is an interesting one. UW is a very good school I would stack it up against most schools in the nation academically.
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Old 10-04-2010, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Greater Seattle, WA Metro Area
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Not that "rankings" matter or are accurate, but in fact, UW rates just one ahead of UT in this ranking...

National Universities Rankings - Best College - Education - US News

And Kiplingers ranks UW #7 and UT#25 best values in public educaton...

Kiplinger.com (http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/pubcollege.php?sortby=INRANK&orderby=flip&states%5 B%5D=ALL&myschool%5B%5D=none&outputby=table - broken link)

Forbes has UW #107 and UT #138...

America's Best Colleges - Forbes.com

World rankings has UW #55, UT #67...

http://www.topuniversities.com/sites/default/files/QS_World_University_Rankings_top500.pdf (broken link)

I was shocked as I just assumed UT was way better but now that we live in WA and have to consider it as an option because it's in state tuition, I looked at the rankings because all we hear about out here is UW this or that. That and it's just about darn near impossible to get into UT from out of state. Wish they made an exception if you are a native born Texan!

Though certainly a person should look particularly at their discipline, such as accounting or business...UT is hard to beat. But I thought the "rankings" interesting because they were very different than what I expected.
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Old 10-04-2010, 11:26 PM
 
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I was shocked as I just assumed UT was way better but now that we live in WA and have to consider it as an option because it's in state tuition, I looked at the rankings because all we hear about out here is UW this or that. That and it's just about darn near impossible to get into UT from out of state. Wish they made an exception if you are a native born Texan!

Though certainly a person should look particularly at their discipline, such as accounting or business...UT is hard to beat. But I thought the "rankings" interesting because they were very different than what I expected.
I suspect that at one point U.T.-Austin was probably ranked ahead, back when it was strictly merit-based. Now that it's not, I'm assuming it's slid a lot. When I was at U.T., many of the colleges/schools were in the top 3 nationally, like the j-school. Now that C students are an automatic shoe-in from low-performing schools, my alma mater isn't what it used to be. Just glad to have gone when it was still top-flight.
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Old 10-05-2010, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Broomfield, CO
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No it isn't. Seattle has a high rate of crime overall. Perhaps you are talking about the suburbs which are probably safer.


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riddled with crime? not really, Seattle is very safe.

UW compared to UT is an interesting one. UW is a very good school I would stack it up against most schools in the nation academically.
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