<p>Does UT take into account other family members and relatives that have graduated from there in the past during the admissions process, and if so, how much does it help?</p>
<p>Just your parents count. And if you are in-state top 10% or if you are applying for 2011 admisson top 8% then alumni status is not relevant. If you are OOS or not in the top 10/8% then only if your parents were alums does it even matter and it doesn’t matter much.</p>
<p>ok, thanks</p>
<p>Does it really count if your parents are UT grads? Really?</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter much… unless you are a McCombs</p>
<p>collegeshopping, please supply a reference for your statement. I do not think you get ANY credit for having parents who went to UT, even if you’re OOS.</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t help.</p>
<p>There is no where on the Texas Common Application that asks for Alumni Status…in fact, it is stated in the top 10% law that alumni status cannot be considered for admission. My D did get accepted and is not in the top 10%. Her dad is an alum… and lifetime Texas Ex member…trust me, we looked for somewhere to state her father’s alumni status…luckily it worked out for her but I do not believe that the alumni status made any difference.</p>
<p>There are just way too many people who have graduated from Texas to give their kids preferential status. Think about it!</p>
<p>i think being family of an alum does help you, now if your rich grandpa or daddy donates money to UT, then you definitely in lol</p>
<p>Your legacy status does NOT count–it is actually illegal for them to use that as a criterion. Also, there is no way for them to collect that information–it’s not on the App form, and they aren’t going to research it as they lack the time or care (remember, you’re dealing with bureaucrats, not people who actually care–get used to it if you’re coming to Texas).</p>
<p>If your father is a high-profile donor, to the extent that he’s on a first-name basis with Bill Powers, you MIGHT be able to swing some influence, but otherwise it does not matter if you have had family go to Texas.</p>
<p>LOL, theloneranger, it’s obvious some people aren’t listening to us!</p>
<p>^^^LOl Mainelongorn…they really arent’ listening…
Here is an e-mail that my husband (a lifetime Texas Ex member) received last week…I think it proves that many legacies do not get in…otherwise, there would not be a need to address the issue with the Texas Exes…This was written by Bill Powers himself…</p>
<p>As I write this, UT is updating the admissions status for many of the more than 31,000 students who applied for the 2010-11 academic year. Applicants still awaiting a decision can check their status on the Be A Longhorn website, and most of the remaining admission decisions will be posted during the next few days.</p>
<p>About 14,000 applicants are going to receive good news. Congratulations! But I know it will be difficult for the rest of our applicants. And for every student who is declined admission, there’s a mother, a father, grandparents, and other family members who are equally disappointed. I think about those students and their families during this time.
As a father of five, I know it’s hard to see our children work hard to achieve a goal and then be disappointed by the outcome. I also know that there are thousands of families who have strong UT affiliations—some going back generations—who are going to ask why their children were not admitted.
I don’t have the words to express my regret that we cannot make room for all the highly qualified young people who applied. But we have a capacity problem. There’s only one University of Texas at Austin, and we are now approaching the highest enrollment in our history. Texas needs more national research universities, but that’s a conversation for another day. For now, I’ll share some information about our admissions process and what options exist if you or your family member did not receive an offer of admission.
Here are some numbers: We received about the same number of applications as last year. Of the 31,000 applications, we have admitted slightly more than 14,000 to yield a freshman class of 7,200. If our projections hold true, about half of the admitted students will choose to go elsewhere. Meanwhile, our student body this fall was 50,955, and next fall it could exceed 52,000. Our largest enrollment was 52,261 in fall 2002. When we exceed 50,000, we aggravate a serious shortage of undergraduate laboratory space for classes our students need to graduate.
What can students do if they didn’t get accepted? For Texas residents who completed their applications on time and met the admissions requirements, we offer a place in the Coordinated Admissions Program (CAP). In this program, students must complete 30 hours of college with a grade point average of 3.2 at one of the eight other UT System campuses. They can then transfer to UT for their sophomore year—without having to apply for transfer admission. Thousands of students have enrolled in the CAP program and successfully earned degrees from UT Austin. While the program offers a different freshman experience, it is a path to automatic admission to UT. Most highly selective universities offer no second chances.
Welcome to our new students. We look forward to seeing you on the campus next fall.</p>
<p>SWTCAT, thanks for posting that! He stated the situation very clearly. Just think how many living alumni Texas has, compared to a small college such as Amherst which has only 1,700 students total! Texas would be up to over half a million alumni in just ten years, while Amherst would be at 1,700!</p>
<p>I’m so happy my son got in! The news still hasn’t entirely sunk in yet.</p>