<p>So I got into PACE (Path to Admission through Co-Enrollment), much to my chagrin, and after getting over temporary depression (not really but you get the point), I started to plan out my future from this point, as I was not expecting this at all. I thought maybe CAP was a possibility, but I had no idea what PACE was.</p>
<p>I have some questions.
1) Apparently I have to attend ACC (and take one class at UT each semester) until I have completed all of my core classes. How long will this take? More than a year? Which classes will I take at ACC? I don't mind taking classes which I have no interest in (English, Histories, etc.), but I don't want to take any important Math or Science classes at ACC.
2) It also said that I have been put on the waitlist. What does this mean? What are my chances of getting in through the waitlist? How long do I have to hold off on accepting other universities' acceptances before I hear back from UT's waitlist? Do I have a place in line on the waitlist? Do I have to agree to the PACE agreement before I'm put on the waitlist? How does this waitlist thing work at UT?
3) It also says that I have the option to choose to go with CAP. It says that I must decline PACE in order to accept CAP. So If I choose to do go with CAP, do I get taken off of the waitlist?
4) I had never considered community college so this will be a huge hit to my ego if I end up going there. Do I get to tell people that I am going to UT or do I have to say that I'm going to a Community College.
5) Which is better, CAP or PACE? I assume that PACE is better because it gives me the option to choose CAP whereas CAP does not allow you to choose PACE.</p>
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<li>I’m on the same boat as you (was accepted into PACE program) and from what I have read so far, you take core classes (English, History…) at ACC and classes that pertain to your major at UT (in my case, science classes for a major in Bio) and it will only be for one year. PACE is kind of like Blinn TEAM…</li>
<li>The waitlist- this just means that if other students who were offered admission to UT decided not to go, they would leave their spot open for other students, like us go got into PACE or those who got CAPed. You have to accept the offer to PACE by May 1 (which is the deadline to accept other universities offers) and if you do get into UT through the waitlist you will be notified by mid- May. </li>
<li>Don’t look at this as a bad thing, I was also disappointed when I saw that I was not accepted fully but at least we were not denied completely (plus going to ACC will save us a lot of money)</li>
<li>I do think PACE is better than CAP because we have the opportunity to take classes at UT and once we successfully complete one year of PACE, we get admitted automatically to UT without having to fill out an application! </li>
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<p>I got into PACE too and I agree. HUGE hit on my ego. </p>
<p>I would go with PACE over cap though. PACE is coenrollment with UT and ACC so at least you’d get to do some UT and by reading that FAQ it looks like you can take more than 1 UT course. Also it looked like you just ha to take 12 hours at ACC total for the year. It’s be good to get those core classes done. Only thing I’m wondering is how are AP scores going to be calculated? I have 12 hours worth of credit (by UT standards) and will hopefully have more after this round of AP tests. </p>
<p>CAP is less appealing to me mainly because I don’t really like any of the CAP schools due to like the city they’re in, campus life, academic standings, etc.</p>
<p>I might just end up at a totally different college, I don’t know how good I feel about only being “partially accepted”</p>
<p>Are cap’ed students also put on the waitlist or is it just us PACE folks? If I was PACE’d, and my friend was CAP’d, does that mean that I was closer to getting into UT than him? Which is harder to get, PACE or CAP?</p>
<p>I’m a parent and have been reading up on PACE vs CAP. The biggest difference I see, is that PACE grabs the kids that would be an automatic admit (i.e. top 10%) at any other Texas school…but are left out with the 7%, 8%, etc rule of UT. So instead of getting CAP’d, you get to get onto campus right away. CAP, you start out elsewhere and have to move in later. I would jump at PACE. Back in the day (way back in the day) both me and my husband were UT students, and you would take a class or two from ACC anyway. Very respectable. With all of the private dorms and such, no one knows what classes/school you attend unless you advertise it. I was Natural Science and my roommate was engineering (2 different worlds to me) and it was like she attended a whole other university…she was on another side…ate at other food places, had different groups of friends, etc. So had she been going to a class at ACC, I wouldn’t have known. It is nothing to be concerned with. I entered with a deficiency in foreign language (they made it a requirement the year I decided to go to UT and hadn’t had any in high school,) so took my Spanish at ACC, then took my history there also. Lots of folks take a class or two there. PACE gets you in the UT door as a UT student, and you will be pretty much on par with the other kids. On another note I was surprised that the GPA required to convert from PACE to UT was lower than the CAP to UT GPA. Anyway, only a few get offered PACE. Best of luck to you all. Stay focused and don’t let that great city distract you. It will. \m/ \m/</p>
<p>I never read anything that said that CAP students are wait listed. Only read that PACE would be, which last year, they were not…you were either PACE or Wait list, and this year, you are PACE…and on the Wait list…so if someone decides to go elsewhere and a spot opens, you get to move off of PACE and be a regular admit…or that is how I understand it. I’d like to know the number of PACE spots, Wait list spots…out of curiosity.</p>
<p>hey everyone, I also got into PACE. Here’s the thing I was wondering about. What are the chances of getting into the major of your choice from the waitlist? UT’s a school that I really do want to go to but the fact that you have to wait after May 1st to find out if you “might” have gotten in seems like quite the risk. So I guess my question is what are the odds of getting into UT from the waitlist?</p>
<p>Getting into UT through the waitlist (meaning I never have to go to ACC) would be ideal. UNfortunately, UT doesn’t tell you what place you are on the waitlist. You wait for people from your major to reject UT, and then there is another round of holistic admissions that they go through to decide who from the waitlist gets those spots. Another question I have is that if I go with CAP instead of PACE, do I forfeit my spot on the waitlist?</p>
<p>PACE is part of UGS
It’s also part of UT Enrollment Management programs
In 2013 (the first year of PACE) 92 students enrolled, I don’t know how many were admitted and declined the offer. </p>
<p>If you are awarded PACE, I see it as a no-brainer. You will have a UT id, you will live on campus at UT and you will have all the privileges of being a UT student. The only thing that can be questionable is your ability to participate in Sorority or Fraternity Rush. Those decisions are still being made. With CAP you will be in a different city, then transfer. This way you establish your friends base and frankly unless you tell the world, no one would know you were in PACE, they would just think you are the UT student you are.</p>
<p>In regards to AP credits it looks like they will only be accepted through ACC who has a very small selection of AP credit: gov, computer science, calculus, languages (English and foreign), and statistics. </p>
<p>Pisses me off because I worked so hard to get a 4 on US history. </p>
<p>Typically changing majors is not an issue for high achieving students. They do discourage changes when you are flipping around to evade hard classes. But if you honestly have a passion for the major you desire and your grades are excellent, this should not be an issue.</p>
<p>Likemyfrenzy
I believe that you can claim AP credits any time, even during your senior year. I don’t understand what’s the problem with ACC not accepting AP credits. You can send them later to UT.
And I am even not sure it’s necessary, since it’s both ACC and UT enrollment, probably all these credits can be accepted by UT from the beginning (you need to ask this question at orientation).</p>
<p>tehdude1
PACE is a UGS program, that’s why you are on the waitlist at the same time. If somebody declines UGS admission PACE students will be first in the line. I believe, to UGS only.<br>
Of course, nothing is guaranteed with UGS, internal transfer can be difficult, some majors are very popular and impacted. </p>
<p>If you are accepted to desired “impacted” major at another university, why not go there? </p>
<p>This has really made me feel much better about getting paced. So what this means is that since I got waitlisted from McCombs, I almost made it in? That makes me feel slightly better. Does being waitlisted mean that I have to start doing well in school again? Would it be beneficial to attempt the sat again? </p>
<p>From the UT “About the Wait List” page:</p>
<p>“You will remain on the wait list until you are either granted regular admission to the university or until the wait list proces is completed (which will be no later than mid-May). No one is assigned a position on the wait list, and it isn’t possible to know which spaces in the entering class might be available, so it isn’t possible to know which majors might be offered to an individual wait-listed student who is admitted.”</p>
<p>So according to this, I’m not on the wait list for UGS, but rather on the waitlist for my major? if I get in through the wait list am I guaranteed my major (Chem E)?</p>
(plus going to ACC will save us a lot of money)</li>