<p>General question- at UT, I would need to attend the transfer orientation to be able to register for classes?</p>
<p>(I haven’t been accepted, I’m just wondering how the procedure works)</p>
<p>i believe so</p>
<p>@vinhnguyen. I emailed a counselor asking about the “in review” message and she said: “The message is very similar and they basically mean the same thing. There is not a specific reason as to why they are stating something different” So, basically we are in review too, but it does not say the message.
@farhan, you were right; it was just a system prob.</p>
<p>Where are you guys expecting to see “in review”? It doesn’t show up in green over to the right; that just has some combination of complete/incomplete and on time/late. The only place it says “in review” at all is in the middle of a sentence at the top of the page in small print, like a header. Sorry if you guys already know this, I’ve just seen a lot of people get confused about that in this thread.</p>
<p>Today is the day, anyone here hears back from them,?!?!</p>
<p>not yet man</p>
<p>Is it really today?</p>
<p>No one really knows which day, except UT. If any member says it’s going to be a specific day, they’re just speculating based off last year’s acceptance timeline. It’s most likely around mid April but it could be any day, really.</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies, guys! Hope we all will be there this semester.</p>
<p>@farhan you seem to know what gpa most applicants need. What do you think is competitive?</p>
<p>Emailed someone in admissions. Average g.p.a admitted to the university in general is 3.63, but as you all know this varies depending on major. Business and Engineering are obviously a bit higher. Social work, education, liberal arts are closer to 3.5.</p>
<p>Are those transfer-specific stats? If not, the numbers are pretty much useless. ~75% of new students each year are auto-admit top 10% freshmen.</p>
<p>GPA also isn’t all they look at either. Someone got a admitted with a 3.1 or 3.2 I can’t remember which one so it just depends on the application as a whole</p>
<p>I asked him for transfer specific stats. I know for college of Ed transfers it is 3.56. I was given that stat by phone, and of course, other schools will be higher. It is possible that the man I emailed did not give me transfer stats I asked for, but this should be transfer stat. You never know, they are always super vague no matter how specific the question you ask is. I asked what the specific qualifications for being invited to apply for the Terry scholarship are and he did not say at all, so who knows. I give up on my guessing. Just comes down to patience, of which I have none…</p>
<p>Oh it is absolutely holistic, it is possible to be admitted with a gpa that low. However, high g.p.a is still paramount in the admissions process. It is evident when you look at average transfer gpas admitted. Special circumstances can really help low gpas get admitted as well.</p>
<p>any admits yet???</p>
<p>FYI, this’s transfer stat for Mccombs [Statistics</a> | McCombs School of Business](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Prospective/Statistics.aspx]Statistics”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Prospective/Statistics.aspx)
Hope it helps . I couldn’t find stats of other departments though.</p>
<p>[Transfer</a> Times - Spring 2011 | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/counselors/jcc/transfer-times/spring2011#P91_6556]Transfer”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/counselors/jcc/transfer-times/spring2011#P91_6556)</p>
<p>click the how gpa affects your trasnfer link</p>
<p>3.5-3.6 looks like a solid stat</p>
<p>What if an applicant’s GPA drops slightly from the fall semester to the spring semester, but the overall GPA goes up? By “slightly” I mean by maybe 0.1 - 0.3 of a point. How does that affect an applicant’s competitiveness?</p>
<p>Example of what I’m asking: An applicant for Cockrell 1st choice and COLA second choice receives a 3.7 GPA in the fall but takes more hours and more rigorous courses in the spring and receives a 3.5 for the spring semester. Also, let’s say the overall GPA lands around a 3.55 or something in that area. Let’s also say the applicant had two letters of rec, wrote two decent essays, has had 3 jobs, and was on the dean’s list at the current institution of attendance.</p>
<p>How would an admissions officer view this type of situation, and where would that leave this applicant? In the link farhan123 posted, evidence of positive academic trend is one of the criteria described as something the admissions committee looks for. Would a bit of a rougher spring semester harm this applicant’s chances?</p>