2015 Transfer Engineering

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Am the only one whose kinda scared that they won’t get into Engineering as a transfer student in the fall 2015 application?
Cause i don’t know what to expect or if my stats will be competitive or not… i hate this nerve recking time lol

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you said you had above a 3.9 so you’re gonna be in for sure at least for ece

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@ecehopeful‌ all i can do is hope i get in , but it is kinda of a reassuring thing that ECE is the largest department

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@MyLonghorn‌
As a CAP student, were you able to choose a first and second choice major (like electrical then mechanical engineering)? Or were you only able to choose electrical for 1st choice and a liberal arts major second choice?

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@punctiliouseye‌ you got to choose first major as engineering and 2nd choice was liberal arts or UGS , which i chose UGS

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@MyLonghorn‌
Is there no way to have them consider a 2nd engineering?

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@punctiliouseye‌ nope , unless you drop pace and apply as external transfer with a new mystatus application … but nope no way to consider a 2nd engineering

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@MyLonghorn‌
i thought external CAP/PACE students were already pooled in with external applicants?

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@punctiliouseye‌ yes but we also are guaranteed admission into UT in general though , so if you apply as external and get rejected then you won’t be able to even get into the University

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@MyLonghorn‌
I’m really rethinking about my choices now. External transfers can have 2 majors considered but PACE/CAP can only have 1. If I went to Texas A&M for external transfer then UT would see that I got high grades–assuming I do-- from a school more rigorous than PACE/CAP. The only advantage I see for PACE/CAP is that students can apply as an internal transfer sophomore year–assuming they get into liberal arts/UGS, but by that time admissions committees would have to strictly factor in the fact that I, a sophomore not a freshman anymore, would be behind other engineers.

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@ecehopeful‌ so, if I have higher than 3.9, then I have chance of getting into Cockrell?

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@Yoohooos‌
For easier engineering majors yes, like ECE, Civil, Mechanical, Geo engineering. For harder engineering majors, like ChemE, BiomedE, and PetE it all depends on space constraints: I think one time a person who applied to ChemE or BiomedE got rejected with a 4.0.

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@ecehopeful‌ @punctiliouseye‌ Any of you know is it hard to do internal transfer to PetE? Since my first choice is PetE, and my back up is CivE… Thanks

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@Yoohooos‌
For sophomores I think its harder than freshman transfers; simultaneously, it is easier to internal transfer than external: I remember it was like around 60-70something % for internal transfer to some of Engineering departments(or Mccombs I can’t remember), if not many, in years before 2014… Then it crashed to 50 something % for 2014.

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Thanks @punctiliouseye‌