Its a sad situation where my son did everything right and submitted his application mid october to be considered for EA. The school sent all their documents on time as well but for some reason his transcript did not make it on time since the school uses scoir system and UT does not accept in scoir. When my son called the admission counsellor they said he cannot be considered for EA now since the transcript did not make it by deadline.
Anyone has any suggestions if there are ways to appeal to be considered for EA ? Thank you so much for your help. This is his top school so disappointed that this happened after doing his part right.
Oh no! I’m sorry for your son that this happened. I don’t have any advice but I am guessing your son is not alone. It would be nice if UT would change their decision on EA if his school provides evidence they sent materials on time.
Our school uses Naviance (which UT accepts) but there was some problem our HS had that all the transcripts and rec letters they “sent” never made it to UT. It was discovered the first week of Nov! The counselors scrambled to get all the materials to the students who then had to upload their own documents. Thankfully this met the EA deadline and my son now understands why I nagged him to check with his counselor.
Best of luck to your son! I hope he gets in with his major.
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All you can possibly do, at this point, is to have his high school counselor contact the university. Your son may be able to go into the regular decision pool.
Early Action Admissions have strict deadlines for a reason because once they make their decisions, they need to move on to regular decision admissions.
Also the University of Texas system is very different, in that, they reserve their spots/ admissions for in-state residents. They have automatic admission for the state’s top 10% of students. They have to limit nonresident students by sticking to their deadlines.
Oh sorry that through no fault of his own he’s stuck but if he can get into regular decision that might work too.
EA and regular notification deadline is just one month apart (Feb1st vs Mar1st).
For in-state review admit, it really doesn’t make much difference because even regular admission will require sending CAP information by Feb1st. (because CAP reg. window is usually Feb 6th around 6pm)
For out of state, all applicants are review admit, most of the time deferred to March 1st.
Is it still top 10%? For some reason I thought UTA was top 6%. I’m sure someone will know the correct number.
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UT auto admit is top 6%.
And if you check old forums many auto admit with high stats and scores got soft rejected (no major of choice and dumped to COLA) That’s the main reason why enrollment rate is low.
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