Hello I created this thread for all the people applying into the 40 acres scholars program this year!
Leave questions or any other news regarding the program in this thread!
Now since that is out of the way, who knows if the selection committee reviews our UT application in addition to the application for the 40 acres scholars program?
Hello. I am a student who has graduated in the summer of 2019 and decided to take a gap year. Since I am no longer a senior does that make me ineligible for this scholarship? (I still have freshman status and have submitted freshman application by November 1st)
I’m not completely sure, but I doubt it. The general freshmen scholarship application asks the same essay questions, so they’re probably looking at those and not your UT app. I remember reading on the TexasExes site that they didn’t have access to your UT app, because they weren’t administratively UT- but I could be wrong.
aestheticapples is correct. The do not have access to your UT app.
What the heck is going on with 40 acres? Has anyone heard anything yet at all?
no.
My son called Texas Exes because last year the semifinalists were announced on January 17. They said that the announcement would come out sometime within the next two weeks.
Last year’s thread (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/2121625-40-acres-for-class-of-2023-p1.html) had seminifinalist emails coming out on 1/23… I guess we still have a couple of days to wait, at least, if those line up. Then again, this year’s UT waves haven’t perfectly mirrored last year’s, so who knows?
semi release today?
I would highly doubt that they would release the semi-finalist details in any sort of waves. But, I could be wrong.
does it come up in portal or will we receive an email? it’s separate from UT AO, right?
should be emails in a single batch.
Has anyone here gotten their UTA admissions decision yet?
No, but from what I have read another larger wave should be coming out either tonight or tomorrow. Perhaps that coincides with 40 acres decisions, idk
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I am OOS and my portal was updated on tuesday 1/21 so i knew then and i also just got the email today 1/24 saying Congrats. Got into McCombs. surprising they updated it on a tuesday, i have always read that waves are always on a friday.
Does anyone know the chances of getting 40 Acres scholarship for OOS? Past records show more than 80% are from TX state.
@saltypretzel, so you’ve received word regarding the 40 acres scholarship?
Last year it seems 5/54 were OOS finalists. (if I counted correctly)
https://www.texasexes.org/scholarships/news/forty-acres-scholars-finalists-announced
And I’m not positive but it seems only 15/54 made the class with only 1/15 OOS?
https://www.texasexes.org/scholarships/forty-acres-scholars-program/meet-scholars/2023
I wonder how many were actually accepted and declined the scholarship?