I will be applying to UT Austin as a transfer applicant for the Fall of 2018. Because transfer applicants are required to submit a resume, I was wondering if it would be ok if I left the activities/volunteer/employment sections of ApplyTexas empty (it seems redundant/repetitive since the resume will expand on and detail this information anyway)?
@baedrillaurd, You always fill activities/volunteer/employment sections on ApplyTexas, because preliminary selection is done by computer program filtering. Besides, app reviewer may want to see summary presentation in ApplyTexas Resume is only for expanded description. It was always good to be very detail in filling up ApplyTexas.
@Bader316 In that case, I have another question. On ApplyTexas it only has options to list activities in the form of Fresh/Year 1, Soph/Year 2 — I am a freshman in college applying for sophomore transfer, so would I consider these years to be representative of the activities I participated in during high school or college?
This is not an issue for Volunteer data entry. For EC and Award, I would put all my high school years. On the top of that I would add Fresh/Year 1 for college as new rows with mention of college year in the “Description” section. If you are approaching 10 rows max for EC, then give higher priority to college ECs and least priority to high school Fresh Year. I believe, ECs and Awards allow you 10 rows max each. Bottom line: Computer may pick key words and volunteer hours from ApplyTexas app during initial app screening. So put the best activities and as many activities as possible.
Top three ECs are good enough, but add as much Awards as you could.