<p>Yeah I have hours from my AP credits. I’m taking 16 hours this semester so I’m on track because of my AP credits. I’m asking about how should I fill out my ApplyTexas</p>
<p>Can this thread get a sticky?</p>
<p>Hey Spring Transfers! I transferred in this semester and am about to start at UT. I came from Texas State with a 3.84 GPA and am a PR Communication major. I did TONS of research and pretty much know what it takes to get accepted for most of the colleges in the school. I’d love to help out or answer any of your questions! I am no stranger to this stressful process of becoming a Longhorn, and am happy to help any aspiring ones :)</p>
<p>Chance me please!</p>
<p>I’m applying as a spring freshman Computer Science first choice, and Physics second choice (I want to double major in both, which I’ll do after I get accepted) . I have credit for the following classes at UT Austin from AP tests (transferrable from a local CC I’m dual enrolled in) PHY 302K, PHY 102M, PHY 302L, 102N, RHE 306, and M 316 [total of 14 hours], and I’m currently taking the following classes (converted from UT Dallas to UT Austin equivalent) M 408C, E 316K, GOV 310L, HIS 315K, C S 305J, and 2 hours of G E [total of 18 credits, all together a total of 32 credits]. </p>
<p>I’ve only just started the semester, so I can’t predict what my GPA will be, but I’ll be judicious and say 3.75 as an expected GPA. [Here’s</a> my resume.](<a href=“http://sekrim.com/resume.pdf]Here’s”>http://sekrim.com/resume.pdf)</p>
<p>Hi Sekrim,
I’d say you have an awesome chance at Computer Science. On average, I’d say ~3.6 average for College of Natural Sciences. I’m a Comm major, so I’m not too familiar with what exactly UT requires as far as prereq courses for the college. Your resume looks fantastic and well rounded, but I noticed you are not a Texas Resident, but attend UTD. If you apply as an out-of-state resident, that really hurts your chances greatly. OOS students usually are only considered if GPA is well over a 3.9 or 8. Other than that, keep up the great work and make sure you take the appropriate classes to be accepted! :)</p>
<p>Hi DeeGeeErbear!
Do you know how competitive the nursing program is there for transfers? I applied for this fall and was denied but im trying again. My transcript sent gives me 3.69 GPA (3.57 cumulative) and 52 credits earned but ill have more after this fall. I have participated in clubs in high school and am a part of collegiate society organization currently and volunteered in the susan g komen breast cancer walk in may and will again this October… Held 2 jobs the past year and had 3 total my essays are good just need to be a tad longer. Do you think I have a chance at all?</p>
<p>I’m doing the same thing Sek!</p>
<p>ughhh. okay so i definitely just put in my application for UT a couple days ago. my profile finally says complete but I am super nervous. I applied to the college of education, major exercise science as my first choice and then the college of natural sciences, major biology as my second choice. can someone please let me know my chances of getting in? I go to baylor right now and my first semester here i had a good time and got a 2.8, second semester i got a 4.0 and so now i have a 3.3. 
my GPA is the only thing really worrying me. my resume is great, lots of volunteering (thanks to Baylor) and my essays were subpar but not bad. I am really worried someone help!</p>
<p>Sekrim, I am a CS Transfer who was successfully enrolled and I have some info for ya. First let me start with the bad, the lowest average admitted GPA into the CS department is a 3.8 while most of us had 3.9s while transferring in. However the good news is that the new Bill and melinda gates building has allotted for a 50% increase in CS Students for the Fall and Spring semesters. So I would believe that it is safe to say that a 3.5 or 3.6 could probably get in if they wanted to at the moment.</p>
<p>Also since the female to male ratio is low our department is admitting almost every female that is applying. I’m assuming you are a male, I’m just pointing this out for any female readers.</p>
<p>Another important thing to note is that 50% of CS Majors drop out their first year due to the rigor of the program. Our department doesn’t just teach programming; there is a lot of theory and abstract thinking that goes along with it.</p>
<p>Despite all of this, I think you have a really great change of gettin in. See you next semester!</p>
<p>Oatman, I just started as a freshman, so my GPA isn’t set in stone yet. If the semester ended now, I’d have a 4.0, but it also has only been a week. I gave a 3.75 estimate because I had a 3.85 in high school and tried to estimate what my GPA might be at the end of the first semester. So I guess a lot is riding on having a solid GPA by the end of the semester.</p>
<p>what school do you go to sekrim?</p>
<p>Korsgaard–I go to UT Dallas.</p>
<p>Oatman–Also, I actually really love the theory of Computer Science, and I know UT has a top 5 AI program so it would be really cool to learn that kind of stuff too! Hope to see you next semester!</p>
<p>You’re scaring me Oatman :p, sadly my 3.6 dropped to a 3.49 because I’ve taking Calc 1, 2, and 3 all at community college before transferring. :</p>
<p>Korsgaard, if your AP credits were accepted by the school you are at then it should show on that schools transcript that you have over thirty credit hours. When you are on Apply Texas fill out the number of hours you expect to have completed by the end of the semester to include the AP credit hours but when you list out your classes on the application don’t list the AP classes/credits just list the actual college credits and that should work for the application!</p>
<p>Kingaion, don’t get nervous. Make sure your essays are solid and describe your passion for programming and WHAT you have created in the past. Show entrepreneurship in your essays, you need to tell the people who read your application WHY they HAVE to admit you into the program. A 3.49 is going to be very hard to get accepted with if they don’t see a die-hard reason to put you in. If you’ve worked on projects in the past and have a lot of passion you might just get in.
ALSO get yourself letters of recommendation from the calculus professor. Try to get recs from the teachers that gave you B’s. With a 3.49 try to get 3 letters. Also join clubs at your community college TOMORROW and amend the application to show these changes and show the department that you have leadership and drive.</p>
<p>This is about the best you can do, if you get denied you can always appeal. Make sure you have second choice colleges that you’ve applied to just incase… You don’t want to be tied down to one basket.</p>
<p>Remember UT likes rigor and diversity amongst everything else, but they’ll always admit somebody who lacks a solid GPA if they see a clear cut reason. You want to make the admissions community feel that they HAVE to put you in the school because they don’t want to lose you.
GOOD LUCK</p>
<p>If you really want to be motivated message my friend jpgarcia on here. He had a 3.5 and they denied him as an RTF major and put him in Undergraduate Studies. He accepted, and then literally the whole preliminary week before school started that guy was emailing EVERYBODY in RTF, had a meeting with the Dean, messaged professors and showed the RTF department that they HAD to put him in the program. JP showed the school that they made a mistake, because he had enough passion and drive that nothing was going to stop him. At the last minute the Dean made an exception and changed him to RTF from UGS about 2 days before school started.</p>
<p>Thanks sks.</p>
<p>Quick question. One of my classes I’m in has a grading policy of 80-100 being an A+. When I try to transfer to UT, wlll I get a GPA equivalent of a 4.0 or something lower if it’s less than a 90?</p>
<p>They look at whatever your transcript says I believe. Unless the transcripts shows it there is no way for UT to know what specific grade you got in a class.</p>
<p>Also what oatman said. I got denied from the RTF program but after weeks of emails and phonecalls I had a meeting with the dean of the RTF program and was admitted first day of class. Granted I seriously doubt this is common and probably a one-time thing but it just goes to show you that passion for something goes a long way.</p>
<p>Hello JPGarcia, you’re the person that answer my question here few months ago, glad to know that you’re eventually admitted to your dream school.
I wanted to go for RFT next year, too. Just some question, is your 3.5 GPA the cumulative GPA or is it only for the fall? And when they review your applications, do they looks at your spring transcript? I planning on study hard to get all A for this semester, then my GPA would be 3.67 (part of the downside is because of high school dual credits), then if I do another perfect semester in the spring, it should be pump to 3.7</p>
<p>It’s cumulative. The 3.57 is what I had after my spring semester (which was my second semester). You have to send in your transcripts before the deadline (which is March 1st I believe) but if you have less than 30 hours you will have to send in another transcript as soon as your current semester ends (so I ended up sending in another transcript in May). I don’t think they even look at your application until you meet the 30 hour requirement so if your GPA is a 3.5 now it won’t matter if you improve it (I had a 3.43 at the time I sent in my first transcript because of dual credit English in high school). Once you send in your second transcript your application goes into review and you get a decision. The time of that decision varies with your GPA and major. If you have a high GPA in a easier college you get a decision faster, and vice-versa.</p>
<p>That’s the thing, there’s absolutely no clubs in this school I’d even consider. I’m not gonna put myself through something I won’t like, and even more so, make other people have to deal with someone that clearly doesn’t want to be in their club. On top of that, I don’t have any work history, extra-curricular activity, or any kind of past projects to show for. Also my calculus teacher doesn’t write letters of recommendation. I could get a single one from my programming teacher if that single one would actually make a difference, which I doubt.</p>
<p>However, you brought up UGS. I’m doing that as my second choice despite having an Associate of Science, so if I just get into UGS and take a bunch of classes (nevermind the fact that they are unneeded, I know) and get a solid GPA there would an internal transfer to CS be more likely?</p>