I’m currently in the spring of my junior year and I plan to apply to UT austin as soon as admissions open during the summer. The only thing I’m confused with is how this works for letters of rec. UT’s website says it prefers you to submit them online but if it’s summer I can’t ask my teachers to do that so if i ask them to write the letters now and email me them can i submit them? Or should I just get paper copies and mail them the old fashion way?(I’d rather not)
Once you do Apply Texas, you’ll be issued a UT EID and be able to log in to MyStatus (can take a few hours or a few days). You are able to upload the letters as PDFs if you have a hard copy from your teacher. Otherwise your teacher can mail them to UT and someone will scan them there.
You can also upload transcripts, resumes, etc.
I would urge you NOT to mail them to UT, but to use the ApplyTexas portal. My son attends an OOS high school that has very few students apply to Texas, so the high school mailed the recommendations rather than use the portal. UT Admissions ended up posting one of the letters (intended for BHP) to the wrong place. It took numerous calls from his guidance office to attempt to rectify the problem…and the guidance counselor still ended up having to go to the portal to upload all the letters.
My son did end up being admitted to McCombs, but all of his letters were dated as received far later than they should have been and it caused a lot of unnecessary stress, not knowing what was being seen by admissions and what wasn’t.