UTeach @ UT Austin (transfer to, school, colleges)

[Adam_]

Hi Austin! I was accepted to UT Austin. I currently live in Connecticut but I would like to become certified to teach in Texas and remain somewhere in Texas after. I applied to UCONN, but I live near UCONN and would like change. I am going to apply to either UTeach Natural Sciences to teach chemistry or biology or the UTeach Liberal Arts to teach history or maybe even a double major. Texas and TA&M were the only colleges I didn't visit, but I am going to visit Texas very shortly to see A&M and UT. I have some questions about UTeach...

1. Anyone here ever been through, or know anyone who has been through the UTeach program at Texas?

2. This is the big one, costs. Does Texas offer any good OOS scholarships?

3. According to Reddit to establish Texas residency, you have to live off campus and work for 12 consecutive months at an off campus job. Does that require you to have worked 12 months before the date next college year starts or when you submit your application to transfer? If I don't get a scholarship, I read on Reddit that some people who are OOS go live off campus at another school for a year and work for their 12 months somewhere off campus and then transfer to UT Austin as a Texas resident.

Thanks!

[Lafemmenikita1]

Focus on the sciences first!
Social studies teachers are a dime a dozen here and even if you get certified in Science and Social Studies, you'll get more traction with science jobs than Social Studies. Certification is relatively easy to get here in Texas and so there are a ton of people, myself included, who went the alternative certification route.
I know a guy doing Masters in Ed through Texas A&M, but his student teaching is taking place here in north Austin, so you can interpret that anyway you like.
I don't know anything about scholarships.