<p>If so, does applying Early Decision increase your chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>I’ve heard different answers from different people, but ultimately I don’t think they have early anything. Their regular app time is December 1st I think?</p>
<p>And yeah if they did have early decision than it would definitely help your chances.</p>
<p>UT is a State school with rolling admissions. In State, they give you an admission if you meet the top 9% requirement for admission to fall 2012 which probably opens in August and once you turn in all your paperwork, you get admitted in a few weeks.</p>
<p>December 1st the deadline to apply but you can get admitted earlier in State. I am not certain if OOS also has rolling admissions.</p>
<p>What is rolling admissions? I don’t understand.</p>
<p>Rolling admissions means you apply when you are ready, let us say August 1st and they find your application good, you find out September 1st or so (just an example but it could be 4-8 weeks is my guess) that you are admitted.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is rolling admissions for OOS. It took months and months for my son to find out he’d been accepted.</p>
<p>Maine - When did you apply and when did you find out?</p>
<p>I wonder if they use official deadline of Dec 1st for OOS and Internationals.</p>
<p>So…there’s no Early Decision? I don’t understand how rolling admissions differs from just regularly applying.</p>
<p>UT doesn’t have any early admission program. </p>
<p>The Apply Texas site will open for apps August 1. The final deadline for apps is December 1. </p>
<p>Everyone will receive a decision by late Feb. or early-to-mid March, but in contrast to those colleges that have one set date for informing all applicants of their decision, UT will issue some decisions before the final response deadline, thus the term “rolling” is used to signify responses to apps issue on a continuum or rolling timeline. But not everyone will hear back on a rolling basis. Those who receive an early response generally fall into two groups: (1) auto admits, i.e., students applying for 2012 who are in-state ranked top 9%, or (2) very strong in-state holistic review applicants, i.e., students not in the top 9% but who are otherwise very impressive candidates or students from in-state schools that do not rank. I can’t recall whether there were any early admits during the 2011 cycle from the OOS or international pools. I do recall the first admits (guaranteed and exceptional in-state holistic review) reported on CC this 2011 cycle were dated late September.</p>
<p>Honors program applicants are actually admitted twice, to both UT and the honors program, not always in that order. Every honors program has special requirements. I could be wrong, but I think Plan II is the only one that has clearly said the early bird gets the worm, i.e., if you wait until Dec. 1, your chances could be slim due to rolling admission of early apps. </p>
<p>The early bird rule is good to follow if you apply to a competitive college like Business, Engineering or Communications because they aren’t required to take all auto admits. It’s a good idea to go to that school’s website and read the admission section. I remember the McCombs Business School site, in particular, spells out how the admission process works in great detail.</p>
<p>Study the Be A Longhorn site. Be an early bird!</p>
<p>BHP have a priority deadline this coming year and so does plan II–applications turned in on or before October 15th will be reviewed first.</p>
<p>So applying the first day that I can would increase my chances of being accepted?</p>