<p>If you applied under the Early Consideration plan, when were you notified of the admissions decision, i.e. on December 15th or earlier? I'm just curious.</p>
<p>Well I applied to Plan II Early Consideration on November 1, 2007 (I actually submitted my essays about two minutes late on apply texas), and I received a nice thick envelope in the mail today which told me I was accepted. I live in Dallas.</p>
<p>So they most likely mailed the decisions on Saturday and you should receive them in the next day or two if you are in state, and by week’s end if you are not.</p>
<p>ahhh!! do they mail acceptances first and then deferrals and rejections?? I hope not!</p>
<p>Thanks, loneranger! I’ll be checking my mailbox!</p>
<p>I’m out of state and got my Plan II acceptance yesterday.</p>
<p>Got my acceptance yesterday too!</p>
<p>Congratz everyone!
P2 is definitely worth it.
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<p>yay congrats!! I like how they sent us a copy of the Undecided in the package!</p>
<p>Any tips for the essays, guys??? I am applying regular decision.</p>
<p>Well to be honest I did Essay B in about 3 days of work, but I have a very personal connection to the issue I wrote about as my hometown is at the forefront of the illegal immigation debate and I’m Latino.</p>
<p>To be honest I started Essay A at 7 PM on November 1 and actually submitted it slightly after midnight, but I was still accepted.</p>
<p>My best advice would be to NOT procrastinate, to not be afraid about expressing your feelings and opinions, and to write clearly and detailed yet succintly.</p>
<p>On Essay A, make sure that you write about you and not about the person who influenced you. The way I approached it was to take 2 anecdotes about my person and then explain the values those events instilled in me. Though I wrote about it in only 5 hours and didn’t have any peer review or teacher review, I had thought of about 5 different possibilites and had thought out the way I was going to approach the essay.</p>
<p>I think a lot of it has to do with the ammount of practice you’ve had in school. If your teachers have prepared you well, you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Finally, make sure you brainstorm your ideas and outline well before you start writing. While I might have spent only 5 hours acutal writing time (time on facebook was included), I did have my ideas planned out and think of what I was going to write about beforehand.</p>
<p>I hope this helps, and I hope to see you at UT in Plan II next year!</p>
<p>Thank you for the tips. and by the way, I am writing about the death of a classmate in Houston area… basketball game, if you remember. and… My orchestra teacher. should be good.</p>
<p>Congratulations P2 accepteds! </p>
<p>For those who are still working on applying, remember to showcase your diverse academic interests (don’t be too focused on one area, especially not business or medicine) and your passion for something as demonstrated by your activities (a language, a sport, music, whatever).</p>
<p>Could the people accepted to Plan II post their stats please? I was accepted OOS to UT and just sent in my Plan II app. Also does anyone know if Plan II does rolling admissions or is everyone pretty much going to find out in April?</p>
<p>OOS Status doesn’t matter for Plan II admission as far as I’m aware. I’ll post my stats though:</p>
<p>Hispanic male (both help because they’re heavily underrepresented in the applicants for Plan II)
large Catholic high school, sends 15+ kids a year to UT and several to Plan II (I think 3 or 4 last year)
GPA: 96.55/100 (weight: +5/100 per honors or AP)
Rank: 9/252
SAT: 2350 (800 CR, 750 M, 800 W (78 MC, 12 Essay))
APs: 5s on English Lit, US History, and World History; taking English Lang, Calc BC, Biology, US Government, Macroeconomics, and Latin Literature this year (however you can’t use the English exam scores for Plan II, and I’m going to take the Econ CLEP so I don’t have to wait til May)
Essays: very strong (they have to be, they’re 40% of Plan II’s criteria). One was about how the illegal immigration debate taught my town civic responsibility, and the other was about how my grandpa taught me to be independent
Recs: good–my precal teacher’s daughter had done Plan II, so she obviously knew what they were looking for</p>
<h2>ECs: Rugby (3 Varsity Letters, JV Co Captain), 3 yrs JV swimming, Whiz Quiz–team captain for 2 years, we were 3rd in North Texas last year; Latin Club–School president, and Texas State JCL 1st Vice President; also have finished in Top 5 in state multiple times, as well as 3 top-ten finishes at National JCL convention; National Hispanic Institute (400+ hours volunteered as coach/mentor, including a championship team, 2nd at state competition for extemporaneous speaking, elected Lt Governor at state Youth Legislative Session, MVP of college admissions seminar), Volunteer at Hospital, Sunday School Teacher, AMC 10 School Winner 2x, AMC 12 school runner-up as a junior, NMSF, National Hispanic Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar Semi-finalist</h2>
<p>Plan II 's Rolling Admissions
In addition to our early consideration deadline, we also conduct a type of rolling admissions. Applicants who complete application after November 1, but before the regular February 1 deadline, MAY receive an admission decision earlier than the April 1 decision notification deadline. The majority of those who complete the application in November and December will receive the Plan II response in January or February. However the only applicants with a guaranteed response date are those who complete their application by the November 1 deadline. </p>
<p>Plan II will mail admission notification to all applicants on or before April 1.</p>
<p>Wow, thelongeranger, if I had your stats I would have applied to Stanford. But Stanford doesn’t exactly give a lot of money…</p>
<p>Cofaloaf, don’t think that you need stats as good as that to get into Plan II. While they certainly put emphasis on your transcript and test scores, I think they care more about the person you are and what you’ve done with yourself for the past four years. But here are my stats:</p>
<p>General: Female, OOS from very competitive HS in Northern NJ
Scores, GPA: 3.75 UW, 4.33 W, (top 10% of class…we only do deciles)
2180 SAT (700 CR, 730 M, 750 W)
33 ACT (don’t remember the breakdown, nothing below 31)
730 Math IIC (pathetic), 800 Spanish SATII
HS Classes: All Honors/AP (except for mandatory non-honors classes), including AP English Language (5), APUSH (4), AP Econ-Macro,Micro (4,5) last year, and AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish Language, AP Chem, and AP Stats this year.
Brief EC overview: Varsity FH (2 yrs) w/ All-Conference, All-County Honors, Varsity softball (3 yrs) w/ All-Conference, All-County, All-Region Honors as well as school honors, 4 years club softball, Nat’l Art Honor Society (secretary, VP), Nat’l Spanish Honor Society, CESIUM (Chemists Ending Sexism and Initiating United Movements) Club (founder, president)
Meaningless Awards: Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar (its a NJ thing), National Merit Commended, AP Scholar w/Honor, Honor Roll every semester</p>
<p>Volunteering: Free, private instruction in softball for girls w/learning disabilities, NJ Dental Hygiene Association clerk</p>
<p>Work (lacking!): Pitching coach’s assistant, Spanish/math tutor</p>
<p>Sadly, I don’t remember what my essays for Plan II were about. I vaguely remember talking about how I want to double major in Plan II and chemistry, but also want to take art history classes to continue my interest in arts…something like that. They were good, though.</p>
<p>Recs: I owe everything to the teacher who wrote mine. It was incredible…it actually made me cry.</p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>
<p>I think that what you are talking about is the academic statement, which can be up to 150 words and is in the honors app. I talked about my interest in foreign languages and linguistics and my hope to dual major in Linguistics as well as minor in multiple foreign languages.</p>
<p>And my mid-year grade report for this year would likely have hurt me for Stanford. Unless I get a 100 on my AP Bio final I will likely get a C. I have Bs in about half of my other classes (damn senioritis). I also got Bs in like half of my classes last year. I had all As my frosh and sophomore years, but Stanford doesn’t look at freshman grades. And I didn’t take any SAT IIs, which are heavily recommended. There also isn’t any merit aid, and my EFC is in the 30k range (which simply isn’t realistic for my family to pay). UT isn’t exceptional with aid, but I’ve got at least $3k for NM, and could get up to $10k more if I get lucky.</p>
<p>I’m also applying to UNC (fingers crossed for a Pogue or another full ride), and a full ride community service scholarship to Tulane, as well as to Flordia and Southwestern. But I’m likely going to Texas, especially if I get a few outside scholarships or any money from UT.</p>
<p>Thanks for the stats, I just kind of want to get an idea of the other people applying. I’ll go ahead and list my stats and maybe you can chance me o.O</p>
<p>White, Male from Kansas.
G.P.A.: 4.0 (unweighted) - 4.33 (weighted) Rank: 1 uw , 20 w out of 373
Only submitting ACT: 33
Extras:
Eagle Scout
Varsity Wrestler 11 & 12
Varsity Lacrosse 10, 11, & 12 + Honorable Mention All-State Team
Vice President of NHS and Spanish NHS
Founded the Theoretical Physics Club
Football 9-11
Debate 9-10
Marching Band 9
Spent a month in Spain this summer</p>
<p>National Merit Commended, Principal’s Honor roll + all the other high G.P.A. awards for the school.</p>
<p>Senior Schedule: AP CA IV, AP Biology, AP Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish V, AP Psychology, AP Government, AP Microeconomics, Teacher Aide.</p>
<p>I got all A’s first semester so that should bump my weighted rank up a lot (hopefully).</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Cofa–why not submit the SAT? </p>
<p>From the Plan II website: </p>
<p>Only ACT: 6
List scores: 25, 25, 31, 32, 33, 34
Avg ACT: 30</p>
<p>So only 6 out of a class of ~180 submitted only the ACT. And I’m sure those students, esp the 25s, had some serious soft factors going for them.</p>
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<p>Cofaloaf has a really good ACT score. Why would he need to submit an ACT?</p>
<p>Your rank is kinda confusing. Which one do they submit? And why is there such a big difference between the uw and the w? </p>
<p>ECs look pretty good. But it’s really difficult to give a PII chance without essays. Each essay is 20% of the total of whether or not you get in.</p>
<p>Based on the rest you will have a good chance, but for you the same as everyone, the essays will make or break you. An applicant with amazing stats and average essays will not get in, while an applicant with okay stats and the best essays ever probably will.</p>
<p>UTSenior: In Kansas there is a lot bigger emphasis placed on the ACT than the SAT. I called an admissions director at Plan II to see if they wanted me to submit the SAT since I only submitted ACT with my regular application. They said they had no preference and that I was fine submitting just the ACT. Probably why so many people submit SAT is because the vast majority of Plan II people are from Texas where I’m guessing SAT is the test that the emphasis is put on.</p>
<p>Loneranger: Basically going into this semester I was tied with about 6 people for #1 unweighted. My weighted rank is a little low because I waited to take a lot of my AP classes until this year, and I did not take AP Euro or AP U.S. mainly because when I made my schedule for those classes freshman and sophomore year I was a little intimidated by AP. But my weighted rank should go up a lot after this semester. Though my status page on UT says my rank is 1/373.</p>
<p>I think my essays are good, but no one is going to submit essays if they think they are bad, so who knows.</p>