<p>I plan to major in business, so logically McCombs is where I want to end up.
I know CAPS guarantees admission to UT, but not necessarily the McCombs, which is one of their most competitive. I'm considering going to A&M for a year and transferring, and am fairly confident I can maintain a 3.5+ GPA. I also really want a normal college experience and I'm a little iffy about going to a commuter school for freshman year. Though of course, if there isn't another way, it would definitely be worth the 3 years at UT Austin. </p>
<p>Would going to A&M hurt my chances for transferring into UT?
What is McCombs transfer acceptance rate from CAPS and from outside transfers?
Any additional information would be nice!</p>
<p>firstly, it’s CAP, secondly, CAP students generally have very low chances of getting into mccombs, check the utsa CAP statistics, it shows on there that 5-10 people out of like 500 or something get in each year. Going to A&M and transferring can only help your chances, seeing that A&M is at least known for their business school as compared to CAP schools which are not. Either way, you have to get a 4.0, or at least 3.9+, anything below that could really be iffy unless you have great ECs.</p>
<p>I know people who’ve done both. I went to UTSA and don’t think my freshman experience was comparable to my friends that went to A&M. Do as much research as you can. You can always CAP into college of liberal arts and transfer to McCombs after a year at UT (I believe you can only transfer into McCombs in the fall).</p>
<p>This is just my opinion but I have thought a lot about this. </p>
<p>If your goal is to get into McCombs then it won’t matter whether you do CAP or go to A&M, you’ll need a 3.9+ anyways. If you get lower than a 3.9, then you can just transfer into Liberal Arts at UT-Austin and go into McCombs if you have a 3.4+ after your sophomore year at UT-Austin. </p>
<p>Honestly, for a student who wants McCombs, I don’t see why s/he would do CAP over A&M. </p>
<p>Not to mention, the price are essentially the same.</p>
<p>If you want liberal arts or natural sciences then not having to transfer is an advantage of CAP. But since you want business, it doesn’t matter. Even for a non-CAP student a 3.2+ will be very competitive for UT transfer. </p>
<p>From UT-Austin. </p>
<p>“Although no particular GPA guarantees admission, a 3.0 is generally considered the minimum necessary for strong consideration. Many students with GPAs above 3.0, however, are not admitted because of the competitiveness of the process. Youll find information about the factors we consider on the What We Consider page.”</p>
<p>I would say that for a prospective Mccombs student, the biggest advantage of doing CAP is that it will be easier to get a 4.0 and get into McCombs as a sophomore, rather than having to wait an extra year.</p>
<p>That’s another concern. I heard that UT primarily focuses on your GPA transferring in, and that they don’t very much take what school you’re transferring from into consideration. So would transferring with say a 3.7 from A&M be different from a 3.9 from UTSA? And where is the 3.9+ statistic from? Is it on the McCombs site?</p>
<p>McCombs takes transferring school into account. Obviously that transfer GPA has a few standard deviations, most likely from higher tier universities, with the community colleges on the other end of the distribution.</p>
<p>egads: if you’re planning on staying in Texas, Mays Business School at A&M should be regarded as well as McCombs. If you think you might eventually go out of state, McCombs might be more necessary. Just a thought…
I was capped at UT but had no problem hearing back for my first choice at A&M (Engineering), so since I plan to live in Texas after I graduate, I am happy with doing all 4 years at A&M.</p>
<p>@jackfly “Mays Business School at A&M should be regarded as well as McCombs”</p>
<p>Seriously, just stop posting, since you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s people like you that debase the quality of this forum by giving kids wrong information.</p>