<p>Will it look bad if I don’t send in recommendations? After I went to the transfer event at UT in December the admission representative made it seem like letters weren’t that big of a deal unless you have something really spectacular. I haven’t been close to any of my professors and didn’t want to send a recommendation letter that was mediocre. I figured I would be fine without one, but now a week before everything is due I am kinda freaking out about not having one. </p>
<p>1) Current College: Texas CC, I attending a private university last semester but transferred to a CC to get more credits that would transfer to UT.
2) Current GPA: 3.75, hopefully a 3.9 after this semester.
3) First Choice: COLA Geography
Second Choice: COLA International Relations
4) Transferable Credit: 27hrs after my first semester, 43 hrs at the end of this semester
5) Extracurricular:
- Texas Community College Aerospace Scholar
- dean’s list
- volunteer deputy registrar for this past election
- numerous volunteer hours including mentoring at risk students and homeless<br>
outreach
- part time job
- club sports
6. Essays: Strong essays (at least I feel they are strong)
7. Recommendations: None! Regretting not asking anyone to write one, but it’s to late to ask now.</p>
<p>I am a current UT student. Last year I spent my time (like most of you) building, refining, nervously submitting, and then anxiously waiting for news of my transfer application. I was accepted and have thoroughly enjoyed my time as a Longhorn thus far.</p>
<p>I can relate to the process and the investment (both the work and time, emotional, etc.) and am more than happy to answer any questions or address concerns anyone may have. Feel free to PM me or post here.</p>
<p>Good luck to you all!</p>
<p>P.S…</p>
<p>Reading through the thread…to the poster applying to engineering with those majors as both first and second choice: change one of them. If you want to get into UT (the school in general, not just specifically the college of engineering) change one of your choices to COLA or CNS as a fallback.</p>
<p>Texasgirl16: I was told that GPA is what really makes or breaks you; everything is like sprinkles on a cake, it can help but if your GPA is not high enough compared to others, then they wont look at you</p>
<p>mnaacd: how picky do you think UT will be in accepting credits? I am coming in from a school out of state but I am a Texas resident. I believe my stats are perfectly fine, I am just super nervous on whether or not they will accept my classes, keeping me from getting in</p>
<p>"@mnaacd: how picky do you think UT will be in accepting credits? I am coming in from a school out of state but I am a Texas resident. I believe my stats are perfectly fine, I am just super nervous on whether or not they will accept my classes, keeping me from getting in"</p>
<p>I’m also wondering this. I’m applying from an out of state school and I’ll have 40 credits after this semester but I don’t know how many will be accepted. The online IDA database thing makes it seem like barely any will be accepted but at the same time it lists a lot of my college course numbers wrong so hopefully it’s just outdated or wrong.</p>
<p>Short answer: I don’t think the circumstance will significantly affect your admission chances. </p>
<p>The requirement is ‘30 hours of transferable coursework’. Just because one of your courses doesn’t correspond to a UT course in their online database doesn’t mean it’s not transferable. The 30 hour requirement is more of a benchmark. 30 hours is essentially a year’s worth of credit. So, they’re looking at applicants and saying “OK, after a year at university does it look like this kid knows what he/she is doing?”. That’s why GPA is so important. They want to see if you can handle yourself in the college environment.</p>
<p>Also, and perhaps more importantly, note that the policy for admission states that decisions about transferability of out-of-state coursework will be made AFTER the admissions decision. What this seems to imply is that it doesn’t really matter whether or not everything from your 30+ hours will transfer - it’s just whether or not you have completed at least 30 hours, and then from that they look at GPA to try to gauge what kind of student you are.</p>
<p>Now for a bit of a qualification: to a (much) lesser extent, the coursework you have completed does matter in regards to relevancy. For example, if you’re applying for engineering and you’ve taken entirely music and history courses there might be a bit of a question mark there.</p>
<p>But, again, GPA is king. As long as you’ve got 30+ hours done or in progress and a good GPA I wouldn’t sweat it.</p>
<p>1) Current College: University of Houston
2) Current GPA: 3.57 hope to have it around 3.7 by end of spring.
3) First Choice Major/College: McCombs (not hopeful seeing as 3.8 is more of the range they’re looking for"
5) Second Choice Major/College: COLA/Econ
6) Transferable Credit Hours: 32
7)Extracurricular Activities/Recommendations/Essays:
4 years of high school soccer
-4 years of Habitat for Humanity with Officer and Executive positions with 100+ hrs
-Job during senior year of HS
-Dean’s list
-Decent essays but i hope to strengthen them before i apply<br>
College
-PR officer in Asian Business Student Association
-Rigorous classes (Cal 1, Cal 2, Bio 1, Chem 1, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics)
-Some volunteer work </p>
<p>I’m pretty terrified of not getting in but i also dont know if i should just bypass applying for McCombs and apply to UGStudies instead. Not sure if my gpa is where it needs to be either.</p>
<p>I’m an Econ major at UT right now, and the “word on the street” is that external transfers into McCombs are much more difficult than internal. Personally, I’d call a McCombs adviser to get better clarification, but if you get accepted into Econ, take some BS electives to keep your UT GPA above a 3.6, you should be able to get into McCombs.</p>
<p>Hey mnaacd, or anyone who can help-- I want to transfer to UT Austin but I’m an OOS student, so I know it’s quite a bit more difficult to get in. I had a few of questions.
I assume GPA is the most important thing; as an OOS student is it common to be rejected with a 4.0?
How important are your essays really? And do they like it when applicants write “creative” essays like for private schools and the common app, or do they want something more to the point?
Also, for my first and second choice majors, is it okay for both of them to be in COLA? (first choice Psychology, and second choice English) Or should I choose two different schools?
Oh and lastly, does anyone know when UT Austin needs your AP scores by? (I assume the deadline?)</p>
Even as an OOS student I think your odds are pretty high with a 4.0.
GPA is the most important thing. Creative essays are good but GPA is the predominant tool used for measuring.
It’s just redundant. My understanding is that for two majors within COLA that don’t have different prerequisites, you will pretty much always get your first choice if you get accepted to COLA.
<p>Thanks for the answer @kha1737! If anyone else can help I had another question. The extracurricular section in the application has little check boxes that say freshmen, soph, junior, and senior. Do those refer to colleges years or high school years?</p>
<p>I am trying to transfer to the UT Radio-television-film field, and I will have 46 hours after this semester. I have completed my application and submitted it with Radio-television-film (0-59 hours) as my first choice major. However, I recently received some bad advice. I was told by somebody to switch my major to RTF (60+ hours) because I plan on taking over 60 hours in that field. I mistakenly took their advice and switched my first-choice major without verifying that it was correct. Since then, I discovered that I was right to begin with and should be applying for RTF (0-59 hours).</p>
<p>Whenever I try to change my first choice major back, I keep getting this message:
“Your request to change your major(s) is in review. You can’t submit another request while this one is pending.”</p>
<p>How long does this review process typically take? The transfer application deadline is in 3 days, and I am currently panicking that I won’t be able to switch it back in time. Is this anything to be worried about?<br>
Thanks in advance for your help.</p>
<p>Again, sorry to repeat myself but I’m just concerned-- anyone know if the freshman, sophomore, junior, senior designation on the app refers to college or high school years?</p>
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<li>Your AP scores don’t have any bearing on a transfer application, they’ll just be used to claim course credit if/when you are accepted. No rush to get them in.</li>
</ol>
<p>@ElectricSpace</p>
<p>You may have the situation resolved already, but in a case like that where the change could substantially affect your application it’s probably a good idea to get in direct contact with an admissions officer. Email usually works best since the phones just get you to the front office.</p>
<p>In MyStatus it says “Recommend: 1 Thing” and then it shows recommendation letters with a little box next to it. I was told my two letters of rec. were sent out about two weeks ago…if they got them would that box be checked? Or is just there as a reminder? I’m slightly nervous because the deadline is Friday and they should have them by now as it takes about a week to get something in the mail from Maine to Texas.</p>
<p>I am transfering for fall admission and I’m from Texas but I go to an out of state school currently. Right now it has me as a non-texas resident, I faxed in an explaination of why/how I am a texas resident but they haven’t changed anything, I even resubmitted the residency form and it’s still the same.
Will this affect my admission? They prefer instate students right?
Also according to fedex they recieved my transcript yesterday but mystatus is still unchanged should I be worried?</p>