Disclaimer: What I am writing here is based on my personal opinion, experience, and information on the Internet. It does not represent The University of Texas at Dallas or any organization.
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(Updated: July 6, 2010)
WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE!

Greetings! My name is Lê Hoàng Đức and I'm currently a student at The University of Texas at Dallas (a.k.a UTD), class of 2012. On this website I will aggregate information that I deem relevant from various sources on the Internet as well as my own experience to give you an overview of UTD, a good university that offers a handful of scholarships to international students. I was admitted to some other colleges, namely Colgate University, Lafayette College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute with generous financial aid packages, but I eventually chose UTD for its rigorous Computer Science program, quality research facility, and many other reasons.
 
Creating this website, I aim to answer these questions which you, a potential international applicant, may ask during the admission process:
  • Why should I apply to UTD?
  • What kind of financial aid can I receive as an international student?
  • What academic achievement do I have to aim for to earn a scholarship at UTD?
  • What are the best departments at UTD and how do they stack up with other universities/colleges?
  • Are there any honors programs that I can take part in?
 
Please use the menu on the right to access the information in which you are interested. But before digging in, please spend a little time reading this short and funny UTD fact sheet:
 
YOU KNOW YOU GO TO UTD WHEN:

1. You consider your I.Q. to be a valid piece of information to share in your MySpace profile.

2. You compensate for a lack of football by telling people that "Our chess team is number 2 in the country." (we're actually number 1 now )

3. Someone asks you, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" And you reply, "There are far too many variables."

4. The condoms (forced upon you by the Health Center) that you keep hidden in your room are doomed to collect dust.

5. Your internet connection is the root of your cursing problem.

6. Chem tests are the source of all evil.

7. You think that sports goggles are a very necessary and completely acceptable part of an athletic ensemble.

8. The employees of Gamestop know you by name.

9. You overhear people at the Pub talking about JAVA, Cpp, and C, and you know they're not talking about their drinks or grades.

10. The pool players in the SU are actually doing physics experiments.

11. The professors actually know what they're talking about.

12. And they don't hesitate in pointing that out to you.

13. In discussion of school costs / scholarship, nearly everyone you know isn't shelling out a penny of their own money for tuition.
 
Here's the link to the original article.