I appealed and got off the Waitlist today!!!
Congratulations bilovial! Can you share any details?
Sure, although there really isn’t too much too say. I got an email in the afternoon titled" Action required: Select a major for admission from the wait list". I then logged into mystatus and saw that it would allow me to choose some majors out of Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Studies, Communication, Social Work and Education
If anyone has any specific questions, I would be happy to answer!
@bilovial is it hard to request a major change from liberal arts to chemical engineering
From my knowledge, I think so. Engineering and Buisness are the hardest schools to transfer in and chemical engineering is a very small and very competitive major. It’s not impossible, but you should probably take major related courses your freshman year, check the requirements for transfer applicants, and strive to get above a 3.8 gap.
Congrats
How did you appeal? Was there a mistake in your application or was it basically can you guys just look at me a 2nd time?
@bilovial When did you appeal? I appealed at the end of February. I believed I should’ve gotten in to the university. They didn’t get a chance to read my letters of recommendations and some other stuff so all of that was sent to them. I was in the top 7.8% but dropped to top 6.84% with amazing extra currriculars and letters and other activities. I want to get into my major chemical engineering really bad!!! I told them, in my 23 page essay for the appeal (I know–very crazy of me to write), that if they still don’t see me in chemical engineering then I was willing to get in the major chemistry and do an internal transfer the year after. One thing that was amazing was that there are only 8 schools (somewhere under 10 schools) in the US to have a bioengineering course at a high school and I was in it to get close to my major by getting more hands on experiments. You get the point. Check out this website of me and tell if you think I might have a chance of getting in to my major and school: about.me/kanaanbarraq. It would be best if you were to use your computer and not your phone when going to the website. You’ll see why if you try both versions. I also sent this website url to them in my appeal.
@bkanaan
What was your SAT score?
Where you completely denied(no offer for any other college in UT)? No PACE or CAP offer at all?
@punctiliouseye My SAT score was low: it was a 1730. My act score was low too: 26. My Math/and science scores were a pretty high 32 and 33 respectively but m my reading and writing scores were low. My essays got an 8. But even if my SAT scores were low I still don’t think I should’ve gotten rejected. By the way, I got Cap’d in February. 2 of my friends who weren’t even in the top 10% and had SAT/ACT scores that were no better than mine got in to their majors: Architecture and computer engineering. And their extra currriculars were no better. I’m assuming their essays clutched it 
my essays kind of suck.
Check out my website and tell me what you think : about.me/kanaanbarraq
@bhkanaan
I’m the opposite of you: my SAT scores are high and rank is low. My essays were terrific but my EC’s were amateur. And I applied for ChemE.
Some useful data: ChemE,BiomedE,PetroE, are the hardest majors to get into at UT (idk about CompE). Mech, arch, etc… are much easier. The problem, thus, lies with the engineering we chose. Someone with about the same stats as me got into MechE while I was rejected from ChemE.
Were you offered PACE? I wasn’t in top 10% but i got PACE
Chemical engineering was insane this year, I know valedictorians with 2000+ scores that got rejected, so I don’t think rejection is indicative of the student, but more about how you have to be solid all across the board.
@punctiliouseye I wasn’t offered PACE. Architecture is actually hard to get into. They only accepted like 90 something students this year. I’m nervous though that they won’t give me my major. One thing I wrote in my appeal was that I know the fact that colleges want to see that your actually interested in your major and that you are doing stuff involved in it. I told them that I tried to get some sort of intern for chemical engineering last year to get some experience and knowledge with my major. The same goes for chemistry, but all the interns out there are specifically designated for those in college. I told them this and said that there wasn’t much that I could do, so I took bioengineering in my high school because it seemed interesting and I wanted to get more hands on experience and etc. I was also part of the chemistry club (I was the treasurer) and did lots of research along with experiments and discussions of what happened in the chemistry aspect of it. For instance, we made a voltaic cell, blewt sodium metal ingot with water and etc. I have a chemistry lab notebook for almost every single experiment I have done. I really hope they are considering me. One more thing so I stop going crazy on this post–in my 23 page appeal, one thing I talked about was that the apply Texas application was biased because you couldn’t really fit every single thing you were doing and were limited to a certain amount of characters for clubs and awards so you couldn’t really dig in what was really happening in a club and etc. For example: I competed in a club called TSA and one of the events was called biotechnology. They only knew that I competed in it and the awards I got but didn’t know the reason why I competed in it. I told them (in my appeal) that I joined it to actually help people across the world…the ones I could not reach. Last but not least (so I stop spamming about myself) I created something to help people across the world that suffer from thoracic kyphosis (hunchback) and it actually works. I’m trying to get my contraption in every hospital and gym in Texas and then in the entire US. I really hope you get into chemical engineering as well!!! If you appealed, it would be smart to add some new stuff you’ve been doing. I told them in my appeal that the majority of people in clubs at my school were actually quitting because they have already gotten in to their college, and one of those colleges is the University of Texas at Austin!!! You wouldn’t want someone like that would you!?
Blew* sodium metal ingot
@bkanaan
I have appealed.
@punctiliouseye When does UT appeal committee review your appeal? They reviewed mine on March 12. If you want to upload more stuff, you still might have time to fax some things in.
@bkanaan
I don’t know when they were supposed to or will review my appeal.
They reviewed yours already? What did the admissions committee decide on?
I submitted mine in Feburary or so and it’s still pending. I don’t think I can attach more stuff to my appeal: the thing online doesn’t have an option for that.
I also heard most appeals remain “pending” until May 1st by when all admitted students either must accept their admissions offer or reject it.
@punctiliouseye
They did. If you clicked on your appeal for the MyStatus Page, it should’ve told you when the committee reviews your appeal. It did that for me. It specifically said they will review mine on March 12. And I don’t know what their decision was. I won’t find out until a few days or a day after May 1st. That’s after they know who is and isn’t staying at UT.
You are right about the May 1st pending thing where you must either accept or reject your admissions from different schools. I asked them specifically if I can accept admissions to another place and if I find out I got admitted to UT and to either chem. engineering or chemistry or at least physics, then I can accept admissions to UT and cancel the admissions to the other university I chose.
@bkanaan. Thats strange. Ours does not give the specific date. Just states that the appeal is in review status.