I qualify for UT’s automatic admission, but I heard you still have to apply to a specific college. Since I want to study medicine, I would want to attend the College of Natural Sciences.
The question is: What if I don’t get accepted? Isn’t the automatic admission “useless” in a way? What would happen if I were to get rejected to my top two choices? (Application only asks for your top two colleges/majors.)
Also, what should my second college choice be if I want to pre-med? Would the College of Liberal Arts be a good choice? Is it harder to get accepted to CLA or CNS?
TIA!
There is no pre med major. You can major in anything you want and be pre med. You’ll need to choose two majors to apply to whichever college they fall into. If you do not get into your major, then you will be given the option of choosing from any open major as of mid-February. For the most part, those majors were in the College of Liberal Arts.
https://cns.utexas.edu/images/CNS/Health_Professions/PDFs/2013_Stats_JH_FINAL_med_with_toc_final.pdf
The report above lists the majors of pre med students and their success rates in getting into medical school. It comes from this page on the Pre-Health professions program.
https://cns.utexas.edu/health-professions/new-pre-health-longhorns
Alright, thank you very much for the valuable information! @gettingschooled Any information/statistics on which majors/colleges are the most popular and thus the most difficult to get into?
Computer Science, Engineering, and Business are the most competitive due to the large number of students who apply. Nursing is very competitive due to the small size of the program.
Really interesting that the Business and Engineering Colleges have such a good Acceptance rate into Med school (of those colleges with a significant applicant pool). It would be interesting to know what direction they take with their M.D. I’m assuming the Liberal Arts numbers are due to Psychology, but it may also include the Plan II students.
@TXDad56 Your major and the name of your school is fairly inconsequential when it comes to med school admissions. You’ll notice that Plan II students, and even philosophy, government, and english (small sample sizes) had a larger percentage of students going to med schools than Biology at UT. They care more about your GPA, grades in science courses, MCAT, recs, community service, etc. I’ve known a few people with liberal arts degrees who went to extremely good medical schools. Believe it or not, med schools like diversity in their incoming class in terms of knowledge acquired, and they also like people who can write really well. If you really think about it, a major like history or philosophy wouldn’t be terrible for a med school student in how it prepares you.
@danfer91 , smarts is smarts. I hear you and there is more to be a doctor than chemistry, biology and surgery etc. My thought direction is to the psyche of that Business undergrad who either purposely took Business as a major to get into Med school, or who completed their Business major (with all the boiler plate business math, science, English, history etc and then decided, ‘hey, I want to go to med school’. So, more so for that business undergrad as I now realize the college of engineering has Chemistry and Biomedical engineering. You can see that as a good track to med school. But Business? I really find that intriguing since there is a decent number using Business as a track for med school. I would be interested to know what sort of doctor(s) they plan to be or are they marrying a business degree with med school maybe to run a doctors unit or hospital?!!?