Specifically international relations and global studies
Google the common data set for UT and look at section C
Are you entering as a freshman? Are you a Texas resident? What are your rank and SAT/ACT scores?
“As a state-assisted institution, the University reserves 90 percent of its spaces for Texas residents per Texas law; 10 percent of the spaces are reserved for out-of-state and international students.”
“Section 51.803 of the Texas Education Code defines the rules that govern automatic admission to Texas universities. Under these rules, the University is required to use automatic admission to fill at least 75 percent of the spaces available to Texas residents in each entering freshman class.”
Next year, you’ll need to be in the top 7 percent of your class in a Texas school to qualify for auto admission.
If you do not qualify for auto admission, you’ll compete with everyone else for the (25 percent of the 90 percent) of the slots left.
If you are international or OOS, you’ll compete for the 10 percent of slots.
UT uses a combination of an AI/PAI to make these decisions. (See the end of this document)
The good news is that the graduation rate is up so they appear to be comfortable bringing in a larger freshman class.
COLA is the one of the “easier” of the colleges to get into in general, but certain majors are tougher than others.
If you read the decisions 2020 or fall applicants threads and go to the time period in March/April that people were allowed to choose from any open major, you’ll find a list of what was open. Those were the less competitive majors. Almost all of them were COLA, but it was not all of the COLA majors which would tell me that some were full.
Are you applying for Fall 2017? I applied to this same major for next fall and am wondering the same thing.