Do I have a chance at getting accepted to UT Austin as a transfer?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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I’ll be transferring over to UT Austin from San Jacinto College with 92 credits, not all of them. My GPA is a 3.14. I am an active member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. My major will be Kinesiology, so I will be applying to the College of Education and Human Development in order to become a PT. I have a lot of volunteer experience that I will include on my resume, most of which applies to my study. I have good essays that I will provide on my application as well. I am TSI ready (high amount of credits is due to remedial classes which do not count nor transfer over).

So with this being said, does anyone think I have a chance at being accepted as a transfer student at UT Austin?

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UT is more competitive than A&M. To be considered, you must have the completed prerequisites. Do you meet that criteria to apply?
https://education.utexas.edu/programs/student-affairs/kinesiology-health-education/exercise-science

See what courses transfer
http://utdirect.utexas.edu/adtreq/search2.WBX

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@Thelma2 looks like I don’t qualify. Do you think UT Tyler or even TWU is as reputable, respectable, as UT Austin and A&M?

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There are many great Texas colleges with Kinesiology programs. Just because A&M or UT might be out of reach based on their transfer requirements, I am sure there are many programs out there you would be happy in and be accepted to. I do not know the reputation of the kinesiology programs at the schools you mentioned or at any Texas college. That is research you will have to do as well as look up the requirements for transfer to any school you are interested in.
You might also research actual PT schools and what you need to be accepted there eventually. Find out where the students received their undergrad degree. Don’t just look at the top 2 but at a good number of them.

Do a google search of Texas schools with a Kinesiology degree. make a list of the schools and then google what the core transfer requirements are. Then see what is a fit. From that list, narrow down from there if you wish, like distance, town size and location, and then visit your top 3, maybe 4. Don’t waste time on a visit if it doesn’t meet your criteria or you, theirs.

Good Luck

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Chances…Please?
Classes -
Cal 1 & 2, Physics 1 (calc based), Programming Fundamentals 1,2 and 3, Speech, History 1301, Pols 2306, Music Through History, Bio 1 and 2, Precal - Class were taken at University of Texas at Tyler and Lonestar Community College (did a reverse transfer, also I live in Houston) and GPA is 4.0 (if I make straights A’s again this semester)

EC’s -
President of a Finance Club I started
Planning on some Hackathons
Probably going to have a leadership position in the Computer Science club at my school

Essays-
Decent, my Aunt work at the Guardian and is proof reading my essays for Grammar (no help with content though)

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Have you taken a look at this page @utcswannabe? How do your stats compare to the requirements for external transfer?
https://cns.utexas.edu/students/future/external-transfer#how-to-apply

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@Thelma2 , it just seems like my options are running out when it comes to which and what schools are good enough that will be in terms of respectable, reputable, etc. I want to go to a school that is strong in school spirit so I can earn that real college experience, but at the same time I want it to have strong academics. I also want to be able to make friends and not be subjected to go to another commuter school like my community college was. Thank you for the insight though.

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Have you looked at Texas State or Texas Tech?

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@MariaHEHE Visit Texas State again during football season. There is school spirit there. Is it A&M or UT? No. They don’t have nationally ranked sports. My eldest isn’t a huge rah rah fan but he does play a college sport for them. He’s not into the hoopla but is successful at his sport because he loves the sport. Believe it or not, there are people that do not get into the school spirit at A&M. A lot of your experience on campus will be what you make of it.

TXST is a lot closer to Houston than Tech. That said, I don’t know their transfer criteria and would have to look it up to see if you were a match. Do you already know if you are a match for Tech? While pretty far from Houston, it may be where you need to be. Another great school is U of North Texas in Denton.
Just because they are not UT or A&M does not make them less respectable or not have school spirit.
I wish you all the luck in the world in your decision.

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@Thelma2 , thank you. I actually got accepted to UNT and have been searching to see if it a good enough school. A lot of the sites I’ve been reviewing the school-- the people have been saying that the school is just “meh”, “OK”. I plan on taking a campus tour and even took into a virtual tour. What I liked most about the school is the fact that its “eco-friendly”, it does have a PT school and transfer-friendly. I just don’t want to choose a school I end up not liking since I am a transfer student and will only be there a few years (3 years or so) and plus since it will be my first time attending university. I went on a campus tour with my sister to TXST and it was just OK, I didn’t get that vibe that I got when I toured TTU meaning like it was “my home” though, the people aren’t as friendly as I had hoped.

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@gettingschooled , yes I toured TTU and fell in love with it, but I haven’t applied yet, just trying to get my scholarship essays together. I don’t like that TTU is so far away and I haven’t looked in Angelo State (within TTU system). Also, I have toured TXST with my sister and I didn’t like the campus that much, I even toured SHSU which is in the TXST system and it was OK, I didn’t like it.

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@MariaHEHE Have you looked into UT Dallas? It is a great little school. While it does not have a football team, it iis a great small school. Dallas is fabulous, has public transportation or you can drive and never lacking in things to do. I don’t know their transfer criteria but it would be worth a look if your headed up Denton way. Check into the UTD scholarships and honors.

Honestly, I have not been to the campus in many years but a lot of kids my kids graduated with attend there. Our town has a UT system school but so many don’t want to stay in town for school and so they go to UNT. It’s a great school, has the college experience more than our UT system school, doesn’t break the bank, and it just 45 minutes away so most don’t get overwhelmed with homesickness. I hear it is a really pretty campus.

The only overly friendly campus I have found is A&M. And with three kids, we have toured a lot. Not that other’s aren’t friendly, it’s just that Aggies make it a point to be that way. It’s part of the tradition and atmosphere. TXST and San Marcos isn’t for everyone and if your gut tells you it wasn’t the one, then you have so many other choices.

Be careful of online reviews. Take them with a grain a salt. Skip the ones that just say “it sucks” or “Lame, I’m bored” or “I just love it so much”. look for the ones that tell you why it is great or what is not going well. It is also easier to complain and people with Meh attitudes usually do. A lot.

And I promise you, your college experience will be what you make of it and the effort you put into it. Wherever you end up.

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@Thelma2 , I appreciate your comment. I toured UTD 2 years ago and I was OK, however it is a beautiful campus. They don’t offer Kinesiology. I have considered TTU or even ASU and UNT as my choices. I do like TTU, but I don’t want to be surrounded on a huge campus and the people weren’t very friendly. Yeah, I’ve read a lot of reviews online and I’ve read a lot of negative reviews from UNT. I even read an article saying that UNT didn’t have the funds and that the school was just money-hungry. This college search has been extremely draining and stressful, soon I’ll give up on where I want in a university and just settle for less.

My mum says the same, “my college experience will be what I make of it.” However, I go back to think of my days at community college and how I joined many clubs and was extremely involved on campus and didn’t make any life-long friends, instead I met a lot of fake individuals that were out to use me. I’ve became depressed because of it and with me keeping my resilience face on…I am trying to move on passed that.

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@MariaHEHE Life sucks sometimes and people too. But don’t let that/them define you. That is easy to say but you have to realize, a lot of the time, the people that say that, have walked through the storm. It makes you stronger and it gives you wisdom, character and hindsight. Heck, at nearly 50, life is still happening to me and I have to choose how I am going to react to it. I’ve been depressed too in life and so has my daughter. Sometimes we need help be it counseling and/or medication to get us through those harder spells. But I truly believe, if you keep that resilient spirit in your heart, you just keep on keeping on and muster through it. It is how we react to things that makes us who we are. Are we going to beat it or let it beat us? Growing up is hard. It just is. Adulting isn’t always easy. And there are days all of us wish we could go home to mom and have her make it all better. Even if it is just for a little while. Then we pull up our boot straps and get back on that horse and navigate life another day.

You may not make life long best friends in college. I have friends from college but they didn’t turn out to be my best friends for life but we had a lot of fun. There is a handful I keep in touch with on FB mostly. Most of my HS friends went away and I stayed home and went to the college here in town. I have friends from high school I still see socially and my BFF’s from HS are FB friends. But my truest, deepest ones have come from adulthood. Sure, we were pals in the moment, but life sometimes takes you different directions and sometimes it takes people using you and hurting you to learn from, letting people in too close too fast.

I hope college for you is better than community college. By your level, hopefully you will find more mature people with like interests. I’m sorry about the UT Dallas thing. I saw they had exercise science and Kinesiolgy classes and exercise science minor and I jumped the gun on that one.

Did you look into St. Edwards that in Austin? Or West Texas A&M in Canyon? Yea, its the panhandle but beautiful country. UT Arlington is a great school. Lot’s to do in Arlington and you are minutes from Dallas, Fort Worth. A&M Corpus? (that’s where I’d be :),

Keep in mind, that sometimes, God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Meaning, sometimes, that second choice may be where we were meant to be in the first place, despite what we think we really wanted.

Take a look at this. 93% of transfers received scholarships. https://www.stedwards.edu/admission-financial-aid/undergraduate/transfer-students

I wish you success!!

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@Thelma2 , thank you for your insight. I appreciate it. Yes, being at community college wasn’t what I thought it would it would be. However, my boyfriend, brother, aunt, cousin, and everyone I know have been telling me that university life will be a lot better with making friends than at community college since everyone isn’t commuters and don’t have other responsibilities like children or two or three jobs. That’s why I knocked UNT off my list–since its considered the number one commuter school. I’m leaning back towards TXST since that’s where I wanted to go straight out of high school, but that didn’t happened since my parents couldn’t afford sending my sister and I to school. I received a TXST booklet in the mail yesterday and just reviewing it. The campus seems truly beautiful, but doesn’t rank as TTU does and that’s OK. I am realizing with this college search that rankings don’t matter too much as Forbes would say they do. I’ve also decided that maybe UT systems wouldn’t be my best fit–it seems more of a serious school feel than that college life. I’ve toured UT Arlington, UTSA, UT Dallas and even visited the UT Health Science Center in Houston to know that.

Same goes for A&M systems, it doesn’t seems as if its for me. My brother could tolerate it being a Texan at Tarleton. Great school by the way.

So I have TTU and TXST back on the list. However, before I was considered TTU after I toured the campus I fell in love with it and asked two of my ex-professors from San Jac to write me a letter of recommendations for the Phi Theta Kappa Honors scholarship for TTU. They have completed it and mailed it over. Its like I can’t turn back now even if I wanted to.

I just keep having doubts that with a campus being so large, I will have a difficult time with making friends and not having smaller class sizes, also not to mention the lack of friendly nice people on TTU’s campus when I visited (hopefully that’ll change…)

I keep thinking I have to step out of my comfort zone, break out of my shell.

I never considered a private school since I know my parents won’t have much money to help me out and I am not asking them to since I’ll be claiming independent on my FAFSA. I’m applying to as many scholarships and filling out the FAFSA early. I want to receive pell grants, scholarships, not loans. I’ve dealt with loans and the financial aid department not helping you out when you think they should, it really burns and it turns your whole college experience into trash since you have a ball of stress weighing you down…

Its so funny how much stress I am putting on myself to find a university that fits me when I am only going to stay there for 2 or 3 years at the most. I am not a freshman, but a transfer junior and I want to experience the true college life.