I am in the auto admit range based on the last transcript of my Junior Year. As a senior, I fear that I may drop out of auto admit range after the first transcript comes out for the first 9 weeks ( early october). If I dropped out of the auto admit range, would I not be accepted out of automatic admission? Or does UT base admission NO MATTER WHEN YOU APPLY based on the end of Junior year transcript…
Does your schools re-rank every nine weeks?
You are fine @TheAvidSeeker. Your rank at the end of your Jr year is what is used for your auto admit status. UT doesn’t see your Sr. transcript until after you graduate high school (for those that accept their admissions decisions). Nothing will happen to you if you drop to the top 10% your Sr year. The final transcript is just proof you graduated. One of the auto admit’s I know from last year, got an F in a class his Sr year. and it did not affect his admissions one bit.
@gettingschooled yes.
@TheAvidSeeker You need to ask your GC “When the school re-ranks in October/November and you apply in December, what rank does the counselor send?”
Our school district only re-ranks every semester because the exam is a pretty high percentage of the semester grade. This means end of junior year is the rank you apply with. I think that is the case with most schools but maybe not yours.
@thelma2 so even though my school re ranks in October and if i applied in November, they would still use my end of junior year transcript for auto admission status.
@TheAvidSeeker do as gettingschooled recommended. Ask your GC. Call UT admissions and ask them as well. In fact, I’d do that first. Get it strait from the source. Though I have not personally ever heard of UT asking for any transcript during your Sr, except for the final one sent by the high school, my experience is with the public schools in my town, which sends a bunch of kids to UT each year.
@Thelma2 I think the difference here is that the first transcript his school may send will be a mid-semester transcript with a recalculated rank because of his application date. I think it is strange to re-rank based on a semester in progress but if that is his district’s policy…
Hi! I don’t know if this will be helpful, but I attend a TX high school and this is what my school does: the counselors release new transcripts in October. Before that, we had gotten our transcripts early in the second semester of Junior year, so the recalculated transcript in October includes our second semester and summer grades. It doesn’t re-rank based on our mid-semester scores but rather it’s based on our scores from the previous year and summer.
Also, the auto-admit percentage this year for UT is 7%. If you’re in that percentage (or if you have a good SAT score) when your October transcript gets released (assuming that it works the same way as my school), you’ll be fine.
@BaoBaoXiongMao So the transcript in October doesn’t include senior year grades?
@BaoBaoXiongMao The transcript coming out in October(first 9 weeks) includes first 9 weeks of senior year grades for me. But I though status as auto admit ALWAYS relates to your end of junior year transcript/rank.
I’m fairly certain that it depends on the recalculated GPA after your second semester of Junior year, but it also depends on your school system since some schools recalculate GPA 3-4 times a year. Honestly? I would ask your counselor to see which transcript they send. My district is different from your’s, so chances are that they do different things.
Did your school calculate GPA/update rank every 9 weeks? @BaoBaoXiongMao
Nope, but I feel like that’s something that really depends on your school system. I could be wrong, though.
Our district recalculated at the beginning of Senior year. All that was needed was the final transcript of Junior year to apply. In fact, one of the boys in my son’s class dropped out of the top 8% when they recalculated the first of Sr. year.
You need to call the admissions office or ask at school, because we can all speculate and tell you what our school does but that doesn’t help you if that is not how your school does it.
@Thelma2 I asked a regional admission representative and all he said was this.
“It’s in your best interest to submit a transcript showing that you’re in the top 7% now even if you haven’t applied. If you rank improves prior to December 1st, you should submit another transcript showing the improved rank.”
It’s a particularly ambiguous answer.
Also would you say applying for housing app in mid october is pretty safe for lets say Jester West or just a dorm in general?
@Thelma2 What does the beginning of senior year mean? First 9 weeks? First 18 weeks?
@TheAvidSeeker Our district recalculated after September 9, once all of the add/drop and changes to schedules have been completed. Our classes began August 22. But since the semester isn’t completed, UT doesn’t want them, as per their admissions page.
Here is what UT says on its admissions site: Applicants should submit transcripts indicating rank for the latest completed semester prior to the application deadline.
It does not say latest quarter completed. It says semester, and completed semester at that. So would two quarters make a semester?
So, if that be the case, you won’t have two quarters complete until past the deadline.
Have you asked your school GC yet? Surely, you aren’t the first UT applicant they have and may know what you need to do.
@gettingschooled @Thelma2 I asked and I am sending my end of junior year transcript.
How do they know your senior course load then and add the .1 to the academic index for going over required core credits? Also does senior year course load help chances of admissions?