<p>Can those of you who have been accepted already let me know if they got their decisions through email first, or by postal mail ? Also does the online status show the decision immediately?</p>
<p>Received it on a Saturday on the bealonghorn website and the paper acceptance came over a week later.</p>
<p>I frankly don't really know when my online acceptance came (I didn't check my application status online everyday, last time I checked was the time of my application around February 1st). </p>
<p>I only checked my status when I received an email inviting me to the Admitted Longhorn Roundup that occurred this past weekend (and then I checked my status online and saw that I was accepted). Got the email last week 2/26, about 3 weeks after I finished applying to UT. The official letter came about 2-3 days afterwards and was dated 2/22.</p>
<p>So, UT does notify both online and by snail mail. Obviously, online notification is much faster, so be sure to check online often--chances are that UT's online decision is released earlier than the snail mail version.</p>
<p>I hadn't been in the habit of checking my status online because I wasn't expecting to hear anything for a while, so I was very surprised to get my acceptance via snail mail on October 25. I don't know when they posted the online status. The letter was dated October 23 so I'm assuming it was on the 23rd.</p>
<p>You do not receive an email of any form for the actual acceptance notice, though they may send additional stuff to your email.</p>
<p>It may be an OOS thing, but I got an e-mail congratulating me for getting in the same day that I found out online and asking if I had any questions to ask a current student. </p>
<p>But yeah, you would be told online first, then you would recieve a letter 2-5 business days afterwards (depending on how far away from the school you are- I recieved mine about a week later but I live in VA). And I believe that they update the admissions check everyday, so I usually checked when I woke up in the morning.</p>
<p>I found out just by randomly checking my status about 2 days after I submitted my application and it said that I had been admitted. Then I checked my email about a day later and it told me I had been accepted. And THEN I received a letter via postal mail about 5 days later I think.</p>