Current freshman Clarice Miller knew in high school that she wanted to attend a Catholic university. Following her siblings, she settled on a Catholic college in the Midwest.

But after some time there, Miller knew she hadn’t found the right school yet. She was making good grades, but she wasn’t succeeding.

“I was in a psychology class, a computer science class and some other ones,” Miller recalled. “And I just felt like I wasn’t bad at anything, and I thought, ‘All right, this isn’t going to work out because this isn’t helping me.’”

Miller felt drawn to UD’s rigorous academic culture. Interested in computer science and other STEM fields, Miller said she came to UD for the challenge. Immersed in a truly liberal curriculum that requires engagement with the humanities and the sciences, she found what she was looking for.

“I wanted a school that didn’t make me feel like I was good at everything,” Miller said. “At first, I didn’t really think about what would be a good fit for me. … When I got here, I realized that the curriculum really fit me.”

Miller hopes to apply her creative knack to a computer science career.

“Right now, I’m looking into something that’s both creative and related to computer science, like app development or game design,” Miller said. 

“Currently, my favorite professor is Michael Potts; ironically, he was a computer science major before switching to philosophy.”

Like Potts and so many other UD students and professors before her, Miller is navigating her own twist in the road, having taken a 500-mile turn from Kansas to find a challenge in Texas.

“I was just going to go with the flow,” she said. “But it wasn’t for me.”

About the University of Dallas

Located in one of the largest and fastest-growing metropolitan areas of the U.S., the University of Dallas is a nationally recognized Catholic liberal arts university with campuses in Irving, Texas, and Rome, Italy. Known for the academic rigor of its undergraduate Core Curriculum, rooted in the great works of Western civilization and the Catholic intellectual tradition, UD also offers flexible graduate degrees in business, liberal arts and ministry, all taught by exceptional faculty who are dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, truth and virtue. For more information, visit udallas.edu.