<p>Did anyone else get this? I mean, for in-state students, I just mean the $4,500 per year engineering scholarship, but for out-of-state students, I think the out-of-state tuition waiver is included by default?</p>
<p>Out-of-state students, did this change your perspective on UT Austin? Are you considering it more seriously now? I definitely am... but I'm still not sure.</p>
<p>I don’t think the OOS waiver helps many people.</p>
<p>This is what the engineering website says - only seven waivers from the engineering school:</p>
<p>Out-of-State Tuition Waivers
To be eligible for an out-of-state tuition waiver, a student must be the recipient of an academically competitive scholarship of $1,000 or more during an academic year. This means that the scholarship must be awarded competitively, considering both in-state and out-of-state students equally. The award must come from School or University resources, meaning it can’t be an external scholarship like one awarded from a student’s high school, etc.</p>
<p>Even if a student meets the eligibility requirements, that does not mean they will automatically receive a tuition waiver. Out-of-state tuition waivers are extremely hard to obtain because the School of Engineering is allotted so few of them each year. We generally only receive about seven each year. Many of the seven are already promised to students on a multi-year basis as part of their scholarship packet. For the few remaining waivers we might have each semester, THERE IS NO APPLICATION PROCESS. We award them automatically to eligible students who have the best academics, and highest GPA.</p>
<p>For those students selected to receive a waiver, the waivers are applied to their tuition bills retroactively after the tuition bills have already been paid and the recipients receive a refund. Recipients are notified by email if they are selected to receive a waiver. If a student is selected to receive a waiver, it will likely be for one semester only, and would not continue further.</p>