<p>The title explains it all. I'm planning on applying to Cockrell and the website recommended applying to two majors in the school. My first choice is civil engineering and my second is mechanical. If I get rejected from both would I just automatically be put into Undergraduate Studies since I am top 8%? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yes, so you may want to choose a major from a different school as the second choice if you don’t want UGS as a major.
My son put Cockrell as first choice and McCombs the second.</p>
<p>Knox, how are your math scores/classes? Are you in Calc BC or higher right now? Do you have almost perfect ACT/SAT math? My daughter is now a senior in engineering at UT. The year she graduated (2009), many students from her competive HS did not get into engineering because they were not auto admit…despite being nat’l merit/lots of math and science. She was auto admit that was not accepted into architecture or Plan II, so she started in UGS, made all a’s and transfered into engineering second semester.</p>
<p>There is now a big push from the pres to increase the 4 yr graduation rate. I think this has affected Cockrell admissions a great deal. This spring my son who was not an auto admit (was top 10%) but had perfect math scores and 5s on all math and science aps was accepted into Cockrell.<br>
If you have great stats and you definitely want to go into engineering…and are not interested in business…then I would recommend putting two engineering majors as your two choices. Civil and Electrical are generally the easier ones to get into. Chemical and biomedical are generally the most competitive. Transferring into engineering is more objective however than transferring into McCombs. It is so difficult to get into mccombs…they don’t have room for all of the excellent students. If you have excellent grades (each engineering major requires a different gpa) then you can transfer in as my daughter did.
It will be interesting to see how admissions play out this year since they had so many more acceptances than they expected last spring!</p>
<p>I put civil as my first choice and mechanical engineering as my second choice major which luckily seem to be the easier majors to be accepted to. I’m pretty set on engineering so I didn’t put McCombs.</p>
<p>My class rank is 80/1340 (top 5.97%) at a competitive public school with a 34 composite ACT (32 math, 33 science) I’m also taking AP Calc BC right now currently. My only setback is that I am not taking AP physics or chem this year.</p>
<p>well my roommate is in civil engineering and he has less than 1800 SAT Score so you should be fine. He didn’t get in initially but got an email about a week into school saying there was a spot available.</p>