2016/2017 UT Austin Transfer Thread

Hard to transfer twice though. May be best to stay there till may.

Hello everyone, I have chosen UT Austin as one of the schools I would like to transfer over to for the Fall of 2017. I am currently a second year community college student at Dallas. I am majoring in mechanical engineering and have 3.89 GPA. I currently hold a STEM scholarship and will complete my associate in science degree by the end of the Spring semester. I know the deadlines for the application, but when would be a good time to complete my application?

hello everyone i have a 4.0 GPA w/ high A+ in calc and econ , what’re the chances to get into the economics major of liberal arts?

Is it just me, or are not too many people applying for the spring semester?

@ssman512 What makes you think that?

I applied for Spring '17 and haven’t heard back yet. Compared to previous years, this thread has relatively few posts from Spring applicants – maybe that’s what ssman512 meant?

BAH, that’s just a funny coincidence.

I kinda hope there aren’t too many applicants so I can get in lololol

@_pashley what’re your stats/major?

I’m hard to quantify, ha!

I’m a non-degree seeking student applying to take a year of pre-requisites for Comm Sciences & Disorders, which will prepare me for grad school for Speech Therapy. Must apply as a transfer student for this.

I have a bachelors already from a small college that gave written evaluations, not grades. It’s about 15 pages of detailed description of me, but who knows if that’s helpful or annoying to admissions office. I have 3 grades from this degree from nearby regular colleges that were in a consortium, two As and a B+.

Then worked for five years after college… read: resume was all unrelated work experience. Essays okay.

Past semesters: Molecular bio, stats, and Chem at ACC and got As in all three.

What about you? I’m hoping to hear something by Dec 15

I’m applying for History first, undeclared liberal arts as my second choice.

GPA is 2.83, but I’m taking 16 hours this fall and a wintermester course worth four hours, so it’ll be a 3.2-3.45.

I have pretty rad essays tailored specifically to UT Austin.

I had three letters of rec: dual credit history teacher (earned 1 of 3 A’s), Dept chair of Persian Lit at UT Austin, aerospace engineer I was tutored by.

I have a pretty big résumé.

I know my GPA is low, but it’s mainly due to a “D” I earned in a high school dual credit econ class I was not prepared for; it involved calculus and I was in pre-cal. Without it I would have a 3.8.

I have a positive trend of grades coming out of high school. 2.6 > 2.83 > 3.2-3.4 > 3.3-3.5

Can external transfers even apply to undeclared majors anymore? I don’t think they can. I could be wrong tho. Anyone know for sure?

I’m applying for next fall, but good luck to you all. May you attain everything your heart desires!

ww777

You can do undeclared liberal arts or CNS but not completely undeclared, @wickedwarrior777 .

Hello! I am a freshman at a San Antonio community college and was wondering if anybody could chance me for acceptance as a transfer student in the fall of 2016.

-I am a Hispanic, female.
-My current major at my school is Radio and TV Broadcasting.
-I am looking to transfer into Moody School of Communications as either an RTF major or a journalism major. For my second choice I am applying to COLA Undeclared.
-I withdrew from a class after realizing that it would not transfer.
-I expect to have a 3.7 when my second semester ends in May, but as of right now I have a 3.3, I may end the semester with a 3.4 but am still waiting on final exam grades to be entered. I am taking a winter class and will get a 4.0 in it.
-I have letter of recommendations from a high school principal, the Austin Community Colleges president, a high school secretary, a former employer, and a former University of Texas athlete and NFL player.
-In high school I was a principal’s aide and assistant, a book club member, involved in theater, and a trainer on the football team.
-I have volunteered at various homeless shelters, participated in setting up a cancer charity fundraising event 3 years in a row, children’s centers, and churches.
-English is my strong suit so I do not expect my essays to be a problem, and I am planning on applying at the beginning of my second semester so those grades will appear on my transcript. Any help and/or tips at all would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hey all! I’m currently a freshman at ACC planning to apply for transfer to UT for Fall 2017. Figured I would share my stats (if someone could chance me that would be cool!).

-I will be ending this semester with a 3.75 GPA and 27 total credit hours (12 from this semester and 15 from past AP credit, I plan to raise my GPA to 3.8-3.9 by the end of the spring semester)
-I am applying to the COLA with Philosophy as my first choice major and Anthropology as my second
-Currently the only recommendation letter I plan on getting is from my History professor (looking for quality over quantity, will try to get more), he taught honors history at UT and received his Ph.D. from the University (the first Mexican-American to receive his Ph.D. from the university, I believe) he’s on some national committee for history and is an author who has written multiple books so I feel his letter will be strong
-My essays will be strong (I am a good writer and will have them edited multiple times before submission, I feel strongly about the topics and feel I can give them genuine and detailed responses)
-My EC’s are in a way limited, I ran track all throughout high school and still train 15-20 hours a week (with a former Olympian and former coach at the university) as I plan to walk onto the team at UT next year (something I am debating on addressing in my application somewhere, it is something I devote a lot of my time and effort to but I want my application to focus on my academic and other strengths), I have been working part time at the same job since I was a sophomore in high school, and aside from that have done a handful of community service activities but nothing extensive or recurring. I plan to help assistant coach my old high school track team in the coming weeks. I also tutored a student for a time in high school and was an AP scholar along with being a scholar athlete, varsity letterman, induction into NSHSS (which from what I understand doesn’t mean much lol)

Anyone offering tips for a prospective transfer student, they would be greatly appreciated. I have post-rejection stress disorder (lol) because I was admitted through CAP last year but due to some circumstances I chose the ACC route. Anxious but excited for my second stab at becoming a Longhorn \m/

Pretty sure I’m getting all A’s this semester! Waiting for grades to get put in so i can send my transcript! ugh this waiting game is the worst.

@ssman512


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You can do undeclared liberal arts or CNS but not completely undeclared
What do you mean "but not completely undeclared? I was under the impression that undeclared was reserved only for freshman that apply to COLA and CNS.

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@irltots, you are not allowed to be truly undeclared i.e “School of Undergraduate Studies”. Undeclared is okay in liberal arts/CNS becuase you atleast know the field of what you want to study, which is different from applying as just “undeclared”; admissions wants transfers to know what they’re going to study.

Are you sure? I talked to a counselor a few weeks ago in person and she said that you can’t transfer undeclared at all. For those of you who are interested, you may want to call to make sure.

ww777