2016/2017 UT Austin Transfer Thread

I was looking at the acceptance dates of the engineering school last year and it seems that everyone that applied with more than 30 hours was accepted from April 15-25. Everyone who had less than 30 hours had to wait until June 10. This year only a few people with 30+ have gotten notified in April so I feel like maybe they are pushing the bulk of it back to sometime in May. There is still a week left of April though so who knows!

@declanbb I applied Engineering with more than 30 hours but I still haven’t received my decision.

For those who have already gotten in-
What time of day did you hear back??

I was constantly checking that whole day and didn’t see the status change till 5pm.

Is Moody typically the last to hear back? I’ve been checking nonstop lol I did choice a Cola major (English) as a second choice though

An engineering applicant here too, haven’t gotten a decision as well. It’s taking too long.

I really got to the point of being sick of waiting!
I have applied to two other schools including TAMU for engineering and they both accepted me already since March. UT is taking too long and I understand that they have a lot of applicants. But being so late to come out with decisions is interfering with our planning. TAMU is a big school too and they have given out most of their decisions. I called admissions and they were saying that decisions could come out in mid May. I’m not complaining but it’s kind of silly that people like myself who have applied back in December have to wait so long and it’s almost five months now. They really need to be flexible and keep up with their deadlines. At least for a school as good as UT, we expect them to meet what I’ve mentioned.

i’m right there with y’all. i’m a 30+ hour applicant waiting on a response from my 1st choice of COLA. i would have thought i would have received an answer by now.

To everyone still waiting. I have a strong suspicion that more waves of admissions will start back around May 1st (depending on school, I’m thinking Moody and COLA since they already sent out waves of admission). That is the deadline for Freshman to make a decision, and once it is confirmed for the freshman population, they will probably start admitting based on the amount of space they have left. Admit the 4.00 GPA transfers in first, then fill the rest of the space with lower GPA transfers after that. Obviously there is some variation based on program, like apparently engineering is SUPER late. I only applied to one major with no back up major or school, so I am really banking on UT accepting me. If you are banking on UT similarly, right now no news is good news. It means they still want you, though there may not be space for you. The fact that you haven’t gotten a rejection probably means you are essentially waitlisted.

DISCLAIMER This is just an assumption based on the trends of admissions, and how it works at some local schools to me. I don’t have any official insights to UT admissions or any connections within the school.

just curious, did anyone get the transfer scholarship? i missed the deadline (i was careless sigh), i was just wondering how much they give u? does anyone know?

@Meiliu I applied but haven’t heard back yet. My whole financial aid still says being processed so I don’t even know when we would be hearing back

@Osaidmk1 They botched the release of decisions for graduate school as well. The national acceptance deadline is April 15th and they delayed decisions at least three times. My girlfriend had heard back from GT, MIT, VT, and a few others about acceptance and a several of them about funding before Texas even let her know if she was accepted. She ruled out UT on the 11th when she still hadn’t received her acceptance. She wasn’t happy with how she had been treated and because she couldn’t afford to postpone her planing much longer because of UT.

@Kimberlytori same thing with my financial aid. i rlly hope we can at least get sth!

Honestly I would rather them give us a late day and say “ok your decision will come on on June 1” then make us wait around checking our portals everyday.

@juliar95 I think they are going to release more admissions after may 1st. On their twitter they are saying may 1st is the last day for freshmen to accept their admission. So after they’ll know exactly how many people they can admit. I don’t agree with the process, it really sucks compared to other schools. Also you’re a RTF major just like me, I read on the RTF website that the college of moody doesn’t even get to look at our application on the office of admissions which sucks.

@hackum It’s really annoying because when I toured the school, one of the assistant deans said that they looked at some, but only some of them.

Does anyone know if they admit more people in the spring and then less people in the summer or is it constant all the way through with regards to how they admit people?

@wickedwarrior777 I would assume less in the spring because it’s not a full semester break. Summer semesters are really small admissions, fall is the biggest one by far. A lot of schools don’t actually admit for the summer, tho UT does

If I’m understanding you correctly, that means that they will accept a lot more people between April-June 20th for the Fall 2017 semester than they would if you tried to transfer into the spring semester or take classes at UT during the summer?

From what I’ve seen in the past, that’s typically the trend. Quantity of applicants usually go like this Fall>Spring>Summer. I could be wrong, this is totally my personal opinion based on my viewpoints.