<p>txex86: What you wrote about McCombs is what I understood to be true up until last year. I don’t think we will know how admissions deals with “holistic review” until a track record is established. I don’t really have a sense of what the track record has been with engineering or if it will change some this year since things do seem to be changing. What I do expect is that my S being in the top 3.5% of his class with less than stellar SAT scores will have a difficult time getting into McCombs, and would have had an even harder time last year. He might do better with engineering especially civil engineering if that was his first choice. </p>
<p>However, if he just gets admitted to UGS I wouldn’t say it was because his stats are “lacking”, perhaps they are based on the two choices he is making and the order of priority he is giving them. They are not lacking in the sense that he could not get into another major. I had thought of UGS as the same as an undeclared major. That just sounds kinder than the way you stated it. As you stated it, sounds like the major for kids that the university just has to admit by law but doesn’t have a place for. As I have looked at UT from a distance this isn’t how I envisioned UGS to be.</p>