<p>D1 is at UT for PHD in psychology and is loving it. D2 is interested but finds UT's pressure to decide on her program/school a bit intimidating. Out of all the schools she's applying to, UT is by far the strictist in this area-or appears to be, at least in the area of honors programs. PLAN II for example begs you to list them as second choice. They just tell you directly that you won't get in to any honors program you list as second choice. "Really" </p>
<p>As Dad of 3--this is my 3rd to go through the application process-- I have to say Wow to this. Most freshmen change their major. So my questions is this: how willing is UT to work with honors freshmen who change their mind about their major and here I mean one that would take you to a different school like business to engineering etc? Do you lose your place in an honors program because you changed your mind? Are their honors opportunities later in the undergraduate career? And what are the real world chances of an honors transfer? Thanks.</p>
<p>If you get into Plan II you must major in Plan II, but you can have a double major in some other area. </p>
<p>If you are in Plan II or LAH in the college of liberal arts and you transfer to natural sciences or engineering or nursing or communications, you can’t be in Plan II or LAH any more. It is possible to transfer into some of the lower level (freshman) honors programs.</p>
<p>Every major allows the opportunity to graduate with honors. That is completely separate from the other honors programs like Dean’s Scholars, Plan II, LAH, etc.</p>
<p>My son got admitted in UTA. By mistake he put Business as 2nd choice instead of 1st. Can he change his choice now. he is within top 2% in his class. What is the procedure?</p>
<p>UT now offers the option to incoming freshmen of starting out in the School of Undergraduate Studies, which is designed to provide advising to students who aren’t sure of their major. It is fairly new (I believe 2009-10 is the first academic year it has been offered) so I’m not sure how effective or successful it is. But it does provide an option for students who aren’t ready to pin down their academic major just yet.</p>
<p>As far as transferring between one of the honors programs and a different school such as engineering, it’s probably best to review the decision criteria for internal transfers. I believe a student needs a minimum number of hours to be considered (24?) and a certain sequence of prerequisites, in addition to a minimum GPA. This doesn’t sound that different from the process at other large universities.</p>