<p>is liberal arts/undecided a hard major to get into? I didn't apply to McCombs hoping that I could get accepted to the Liberal arts/undecided</p>
<p>Not as easy as it used to be. Some folks at UT told my wife a week ago that of about 2200 slots in Liberal Arts. About 1600 were taken by spill over top 10 percenters not accepted into business, engineering, etc. That leaves about 600 slots and many of them had been filled as of about two weeks ago.</p>
<p>I just don't know if applying to Liberal Arts is a good move or not for you. This assumes you aren't top 10%, of course. My son just got in, but Lib Arts was his actual top choice.</p>
<p>Good luck, but you should know that it may take a 3.7 or greater to transfer into business from Lib Arts.</p>
<p>texdad, are you serious? that couldn't be true! Only 600 slots? I wonder how i got in...</p>
<p>liberal arts is my actual top choice too.</p>
<p>that stat is a little off the walls though, only 600 people in texas and around the country not from the top 10% go to the liberal arts school? If that's really the case, I consider myself done.</p>
<p>The 600 is not the total Liberal Arts frosh. It is 2200, but this year roughly 1600 are the automatic admits that are not admitted into the other schools,so they are sent to Liberal Arts. (I believe most applicants don't put Liberal Arts as first choice and it should be noted that about 6,000 total per year are admitted, so Liberal Arts is only about 1/3 of the total).</p>
<p>We freaked out when we heard this, so that is why I now question whether applying for Liberal Arts, if it isn't your top choice, is really the best strategy. </p>
<p>By the way, the top 10 per centers and others who don't get into business, who are desperate to get the 3.7's or whatever to get into business might make for some stiff competition. I'd seriously consider whether you want to do that if you will only be satisfied with business.</p>
<p>Regarding the 600, keep in mind that many LAC's don't admit even that many students to their whole school.</p>