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As of July, UT has drastically changed their admissions procedures for **competitive majors<a href=“engineering,%20business,%20communications”>/b</a>, especially McCombs. Other colleges, such as the College of Natural Sciences, has fewer applicants and there may be rolling admissions of some sort. </p>
<p>Prior to Fall 2012, class rank played a huge role in automatic admission into these competitive majors. If a prospective student was ranked in the top 1-2% of their high school class, they were offered admission without regard to their test scores or resume. For McCombs, that number was 75% of the incoming class. That is not the case anymore. </p>
<p>As mentioned, Admissions has said that the sheer volume of applicants that must now be holistically reviewed within the competitive majors will slow down the process. So, admission notices, “rolling” or not, will be delayed for these majors.</p>