Goodbye, my dream

<p>@hadiga,
Thank you for mentioning the essay issue. I spent a lot of time on essays, however, because English is not my native language, my language may not be very polished. But everytime I read my essays I felt truly touched. I really put my passion and dream in.</p>

<p>Any help on the appealing process?</p>

<p>Thanks,everyone! I appreciate your kindness. I’m having hard time these days because of this disappointed result. But your suggestions make me feel a lot better. I will never give up my dream.
Thank you!</p>

<p>@mali101,do you want to appeal too? I don’t think appealing will change their decisions, but I still want to have a try.</p>

<p>Sadly, I think the main reason you didn’t get in is because you’re not a resident of Texas.</p>

<p>McCombs is just so competitive. You might have gotten in if you made COLA your number one and two choices.</p>

<p>If you’re set on UT you should try again next semester, it’s not too late!</p>

<p>Yea I want to appeal as well, atleast we should give it a shot. I’m in the same boat…out of state.
And btw, what are the chances of getting in once you’re rejected, i mean is it worth applying for spring 2011??</p>

<p>@ mali101, I know that spring is rolling basis and I guess it’s conparatively easier…
I probably won’t try to apply for transfer again cuz I will have 73 hours done after this semester. I’ll wait till grad school.</p>

<p>Hmm…well I’ll try to appeal and if it doesn’t work out, apply again for Spring 11 but I really dont want to be rejected again so is it easier for OOS to get in for spring compared to fall? :/</p>

<p>The good thing about UT’s transfer admissions is that you don’t have to re-apply with new essays, etc. You can send them an updated transcript with the grades that you have made this semester and they might accept you. I’ve seen it happen. However, you might want to see if you can change your desired major to general education or COLA as your first choices to get your foot in the door.</p>

<p>If you are set on accounting, at this point I would still suggest you apply for the MPA program. If you want to get a job after college, I would suggest you evaluate who is hiring at your current career services office vs. who hires at UT’s COLA. McCombs has its own seperate world in terms of career services and they won’t advise you or give you an opportunity to interview through them if you are not a business major. If you are a remarkable business major at your current university (by your grades and workload it looks like it), then you might have some really good opportunities that wouldn’t exist for you if you attended UT’s COLA in terms of interview prospects. This is not to say that there are no good companies that hire COLA students, but you have to hustle a lot more. I was an Econ major at UT and know what it feels like to bust your butt to get interviews where the BBA students had a more formalized process.</p>

<p>@Bk696969, Thank you again!</p>

<p>Yeah…I’m in a good standing in my current university. I’ll take your advice to apply for the MPA program. I used to plan that if I could get in UT now, I would apply for the integrate MPA in McCombs. </p>

<p>Now I plan to do a honor research with the faculty and try to find an intern either next spring or summer. I will never make McCombs turn me down again.</p>

<p>Vicky,</p>

<p>You have great determination. Make sure you get around a 650 or better on the GMAT. McCombs doesn’t seem to be so in-state heavy when it comes to taking students in their graduate programs (excluding PPA which is something that you have to enter into as an undergrad in any case). You would be coming from a more level playing field with the awesome grades you have. Make sure your internship is something that is meaningful as well. Even though the residency issue isn’t as much a big deal when applying for graduate degrees, it doesn’t change the fact that McCombs is the number 1 accounting program in the nation (and some consider it the best in the world), which makes it quite competitive.</p>

<p>Vicky, never give up. I was accepted to McCombs through transfer after being waitlisted as a freshman applicant. Although I’m not completely in your shoes, I understand the pain of not being accepted.</p>

<p>Everything at UT is so arbitrary it almost feels like luck. You are more qualified than so many people who were accepted. Appeal or try again in the spring- you really deserve to get in.</p>

<p>Wow, can’t believe you were rejected from COLA too! That’s crazy! Hope they side with you on your appeal!</p>

<p>@BK696969,thanks for all your helpful advice and kind words!</p>

<p>GMAT has already been a big item on my planner. Knowing that UT has the most prestigious accounting program, I have to make myself more stand-out.</p>

<p>@jfeathe, thank you for understanding my feeling! Yeah,it hurts. But I try to stay positive and work even harder. Hopefully I will see you in McCombs in the future.</p>

<p>Anyone know the process of appealing a rejection?!</p>

<p>OP I will be attending The University of Iowa this fall, any particular reason why you want to transfer?</p>

<p>@Coolbrezze im guessing he just probably really likes UT / @Vick go ahead and prepare for the GMAT, if you Ace it go for Harvard or something.</p>

<p>Slightly off topic, but for all the top 7/8/7.5% people on page 1,</p>

<p>It’s still the Top 10% Law. The law simply caps that admission at a certain number. The percentage may be 7 or 8 percent, but the law is the top ten law.</p>

<p>Also, it’s not possible for UT to admit just the top 7.5%. Under the law, they have to admit everyone in a percentile if anyone is qualified, even over the 75% cap.</p>

<p>If they don’t hit 75% with the top 7%, it’s automatically the top 8%, even if that means that 85% of the offers are to kids in the top 8%.</p>

<p>This is all seperate from the transfer discussion. I don’t know how UT converts GPAs to/from a 4.33 scale to a 4.0 scale, but I’m pretty certain it’s not simply by reducing your GPA by .3.</p>

<p>Also, every report I’ve been hearing is that especially transfer admission is trying to admit MORE out of state kids. They don’t have a cap on that aspect of admission at all, and they trying to raise the number of out of state kids to one, get more people paying $20k instead of $9k, and two, to boost USNWR numbers (they’re not going to admit number two publically, but it’s a legitimate reason).</p>

<p>Traditionally the cap for COLA transfers has been around 3.6, so even with a .3 deduction you’d still seem to be clear. Grades has also historically been the only major determining factor for transfer students. Unless your essays were really weak, I can’t see any valid reason why you wouldn’t have been accepted to COLA. COLA doesn’t care about 1st or 2nd ranking at the freshman admissions level, and I don’t think they care at the transfer level either. Econ is slightly more competitive than other COLA majors, but not significantly so. I would strongly consider an appeal if I were you.</p>

<p>@pierrechn</p>

<p>Harvard does not offer a Masters in Professional Accounting. Texas, on the other hand, has the best MPA program in the country. Once again, do some research before you offer any advice.</p>