Hello, I just found out today that I was PACE’d, Waitlisted, and CAP’ed and was curious as to whether submitting the Pace agreement will take me off the Waitlist, which I have already joined. The only reason I’m wary of this is because in the small description of Pace on Mystatus it says that if all space in the program is filled before i accept the offer to PACE, then then I am unable to participate in it. Also, does anyone have any information on past Waitlist statistics? I’m curious as to whether I have any chance of full admission haha. Thanks in advance for the help
We are in the same boat. My son received the same PACE, CAP and waitlisted offers. He has two other schools he’s admitted to for his major but he had his heart set on UT. We have a lot to discuss to make the right decision, if a UT path is the way he still wants to go. Transferring into his major will be next to impossible, because it is one of the hardest schools. For the costs of UT for undergraduate studies and super hard to transfer into his school of choice, we have a lot to think about and discuss.
Does anyone know the stats for getting off the wait list from last year.
putting yourself on pace does not take you off the waitlist. If you accept both options, you will still be considered for waitlist as well. And don’t feel discouraged, you are still a full time UT student! No major different woohoo!
@bookmom7 Thanks.
I guess the chances to get accepted off the waitlist would be pretty low. My kid got into A&M and UTD Mech Engineering so PACE and CAP do not seem like good choices. I guess the best course of action would be to stay on the wait list, show intent/interest, but plan to attend A&M as MechE at A&M is pretty well rated. Any advise/thoughts ?
Hi…my son received the same offer last year. He accepted the offer as he knew he wanted to go to UT. The good news is that within a few weeks he was off the wait list and offered full admission , though not to his first choice major(CS). Honestly, that wasn’t a huge deal to him as he’s not 100 % sold on that as a career path anyway. He is very pleased with his decision , though it was admittedly a stressful way to gain admission. Incidentally, we called the admission office initially to discuss his options. They informed us that they offered more applicants the wait list/pace option than they had in the past (last year) and that the former statistic of admission from the wait list would not reflect his chances(which was comforting since it was something like 4 or 5). I’ve never seen the statistics for last years admission from wait list , I wonder if that would confirm what they told us.
@nancyvh What major was your son offered off of the waitlist?
Did it affect your housing options?
@nancyvh The Common Data Set can be found at https://sps.austin.utexas.edu/sites/ut/IRRIS/Pages/CDS.aspx. The numbers reported on October 15th 2015 state that 769 students were offered a place on the waiting list and 18 waitlisted students were admitted. Of the total of 17006 admitted students those admitted from the waiting list are about 0.1%. Or the other way around, about 2% of those offered to be on the waiting list were admitted. These numbers do not look very promising for those on the waiting list.
@Thelma2 - My son was offered a list of “open majors”…mostly through the Liberal Arts College…Economics, Government, maybe Sociology. I honestly can’t remember them all. It didn’t effect his housing options at all since he had already accepted the PACE offer which offers him on campus housing anyway. @tx36542 -Thanks for the link. While the number is a marginal improvement from previous years, they’ve got a long way to go it seems.
@tx36542 Thanks. Yeah now that we have had a bit of time to process, it looks the the acceptance percent off the waitlist has been pretty slim the last few years and my kid seems to be happy with the admit to A&M Mech Engineering. Thanks everyone for all the info.
Hey guys, just a heads up: If you were offered waitlist/pace/cap, my friend logged onto her my status yesterday and saw that she was offered admission off the waitlist. She now has to choose a major from a list of available majors. She did not get an email about this, so make sure to regularly check my status!
@Victori1211 Thanks and appreciate the heads up ! We checked the status and my kid was offered admission off the wait list with a chance to choose a major after Mar 10. Looks like most of the majors available are with the college of language arts but I guess it is a reasonable path to get into UT Austin. So we have some decisions to make 
@Thelma2 @daniiiheyo and everyone else…Any thoughts on which would be a better choice between CNS at UT Austin versus Engineering at TAMU. It looks like CNS is a reasonable transfer (except for CS) but Cockrel would be a tough transfer. Can anyone suggest some resources to compare research options and internship/job opportunities between UT CNS and TAMU Engineering. TAMU ranks just behind Cockrel (12th versus 10th in one study) but I could not find any direct comparison stats between CNS and Look. Is one better than the other for admission to Grad school in the future.
Cockrell will be an almost impossible transfer. Not that it isn’t done, but from what they told us in our tour meeting sub session, it is easier to get in as a freshman than transfer. Meaning, if you couldn’t get in at the time of original application, then good luck trying to later.
For my son, he is already accepted to A&M engineering so it is a no brainer for him to go there. He really loves Austin but I don’t see a CNS degree being comparable to an engineering degree. Perhaps it depends on which engineering school he gets into. He’s accepted as mechanical but is really interested in Industrial Distribution and Global Distribution certificate, which is more like a minor and goes on your transcript and has a study program overseas.
@Thelma2 Thanks for the insights. Your thoughts are really appreciated.That was my more or less our conclusion too.