<p>Does UT Austin require recommendations on its application?</p>
<p>No it doesn’t. Are you a transfer? Stats/major?</p>
<p>They allow you to send 2 recommendations from anyone, not just teachers, they can help your application, so it’s ‘recommended’. I don’t know anyone who wasn’t in top 8% that didn’t send them.</p>
<p>My sister is a HS teacher and she loves to be asked to write recs for her students who deserve them, but expects to be given ample notice (couple of weeks).</p>