<p>With more and more applicants being accepted by the top 10% law and Texas Students more likely to go to a relatively inexpensive in-state school instead of an expensive out-of-state or private school due to all the Economic Recession talk, doesn't it seem like getting into UT this year is harder than ever for non-top 10%ers? =-/ !!!</p>
<p>I never thought I would have trouble getting in and didn't ever think I would go but now I really want to and DO NOT want to go to A&M :(</p>
<p>I think discussing this topic would help pass the week-long wait until we find out our decisions:)</p>
<p>What are your statistics educatemeplease? Have you posted your info before? I'm just curious as to how close you are to the automatic admission level</p>
<p>A&M is my backup too. I REALLY do not want to go there...so many people from my school end up there and it would be like a continuation of high school.
I read on of the posts about an email being sent that basically said that the summer freshman spots that were originally for the summer are being allocated to the fall. so if you were supposed to be admitted to the SFC they are going to admit you to fall instead.
which probably means they admitted so many top 10% they had to cut down the number of people they would admit to the SFC. which could possibly give all the non-top 10% not a very good chance.</p>
<p>If you really don't want to go to A&M, would you choose CAPS?</p>
<p>You can branch out even if many from your high school go to A&M. You have to make yourself do it, but it can be done.</p>
<p>Very interesting year. Maybe there will be a sizeable waitlist since there is no way to guess how many applicants will choose to stay in-state because it is probably cheaper and/or how many will go to a CC beccause it is more affordable.</p>
<p>People tell me I'm for sure in but this year seems so different from all the other years!!! And I was looking at other people on this site who want to be chanced for UT and their stats are so similar to mine..everyone seems likely to get in, but there aren't enough slots for that... BUT of course, maybe just the people that post their stats on here are doing so because they are good students that research and all the students that will be rejected have the bad stats and are less likely to be on this site looking stuff up... you know? :)</p>
<p>If I don't get into UT then I would go to A&M, and not CAPS. I would prefer A&M to staying at home ( I live only a few miles from UTSA) for a year!!!</p>
<p>Hmmm when I logged on just now (I managed to not log on for 4.5hrs!!! It was amazing haha) to check my status, it sent me to the UT Direct - My Home page. It's never done that before but it didn't say "accepted" or anything. So I logged in again and it just sent me to the regular status page it always does - saying their reviewing my application now... So me getting a different page was a false alarm and I'm just making something out of nothing right? =-/</p>
<p>Why wouldn't you choose another CAP's school.... (UT Arlington, UT Brownsville, UT El Paso, UT Pan American, UT Permian Basin, UT San Antonio, and UT Tyler)
If I were wanting to go to UT and offered a different way to get there, I would do it. Save the spot for a kid who really wants your slot at A&M. </p>
<p>Your stats are great - I wish you the best in getting into UT.
I understand the top 10% rule - however all Texas high schools are not identical in the way their classes are weighted. At my school, AP & Dual Credit courses are not weighted. Therefore loads of top 10% kids - mostly going to UT at our school - have never taken one upper level course. NOT ONE! This is not fair to students like you.<br>
Until all Texas schools weight their courses exactly the same, the top 10% is just crazy. And good kids at UT and A&M are getting set aside for academic review - while kids who crused through school taking no weighted courses get in.</p>
<p>The state is probably going to have a uniform high school GPA code soon. They have been working on it. Eventually, Texas will also need to realize (as California did) that the top students should be guaranteed admission to a flagship university, but maybe not their top choice flagship. Texas needs more flagships also and they are working on that as well. Texas A&M will start to feel the squeeze next as far as top 10% admits goes. When lifelong Aggies see their children denied, the legislature will HAVE to listen.</p>
<p>A&M is already feeling the same top 10% pressure that UT is.
This made me laugh "When lifelong Aggies see their children denied, the legislature will HAVE to listen." And is true....
Why couldn't you longhorns fix this for all of us?</p>
<p>Yeah for some schools the top 10% rule is good, but for a lot it is unfair and doesn't accurately gauge the best students. Yours seems pretty unfair though! My school is weighted and I think that most of the brightest students are in the top 10% - but there are still a few that don't take AP classes. Also this law also creates high incentives the cheat to get an A without having to learn the material... </p>
<p>Hmm I didn't even consider going to a different school for CAP - I haven't applied to any... I just hope I won't have to.</p>
<p>If I were CAP'ed and I could afford it, I would definitely want to spend my CAP year in a town I hadn't lived in before instead of my home town. :)</p>
<p>educateme, if you are denied regular admission you will automatically be offered CAP, you don't need to apply to anything now. Wait until you hear from UT.</p>
<p>Disaster, you may actually have an easier time if you are a top OOS applicant, From what I've read, they are trying to keep a few spots open for top OOS/International people until they absolutely cannot (read the report).</p>
<p>klparker, right now A&M is not in as bad of a bind. An indicator of that is the alternative method of getting in A&M with high test score and top 25%, that will be the first to go when the percentages of admits of top 10% kids takes more and more spots.</p>
<p>It is funny though about the statement, "When lifelong Aggies see their children denied the legislature will have to listen." There might actually be a kernel of truth to it though, from the standpoint that there is probably a majority in the legislature who either graduated from one or the other, or is somehow connected to one or the other.</p>
<p>What we need is a majority in the legislature (Senate in particular) to vote to amend the law - not abolish it, just tweak it!!</p>
<p>I've always heard that coming from OOS to UT is so competitive that if you can get into UT from OOS you could get into a much more competitive school, like Duke or something.</p>
<p>Well klparker312 A&M also did an automatic acceptance on their own of "If you're in the top 25% and your SAT score is above 1300 (with at least a 600 on each M & CR) then you're accepted." So they could give up that voluntary thing first...</p>
<p>Did anyone actually tell UT their AP scores when they applied?
I don't remember seeing a section for it on the app, nor did I see it on my transcript I sent... I didn't really care to find out as I applied though since I only passed one (English Language - 3).</p>
<p>The other way in is to go to ACC for 30 hours then transfer into UT - I know a bunch of kids who have done it that way over the past 2 years. Only kicker is you have to keep your gpa up pretty high to assure the transfer (but you have to keep your grades up in CAP too).</p>
<p>By doing it this way, you are in Austin, can even live in one of the private dorms, like Towers or Castillian, and be an "almost" UT student like the Blinn kids are at A&M :)</p>
<p>If you transfer from ACC, you will need a higher GPA than the 3.2 for a CAP student. UT flat out told us to not go to a CC if you really wanted to be at UT since it was much more difficult and there would be no guarantee.</p>
<p>If you have a good deal of college credit through AP scores and Dual Credit classes, you are probably better off going elsewhere and transferring in as a 2nd semester Soph or even a Junior after a year. (This is per UT's website and our conversations with them.)</p>
<p>You do not need to send your AP scores for admission purposes. </p>
<p>If my child ends up accepting CAPs, I will suggest to her to not take the credits and just take the classes to help boost her GPA. It is difficult to get all the classes you need in any sort of schedule if you have already taken a lot of credits through AP exams.</p>
<p>yeah i intend to go to st. eds for a semester or a year then transfer to UT if i'm not admitted. From what i hear most people who do well at st. eds dont have a hard time transferring to UT. if youre just outside the top 10%, st eds will be rather generous with scholarships, making it affordable.</p>
<p>If you keep your grades up via CAP, you are guaranteed that your transfer application will be accepted.</p>
<p>If you have a 4.0 from ACC or St. Ed's, there is no guarantee that your transfer application will be accepted. Right? I think if you are not accepted and you really want to you go UT, your safest bet is CAP. I am not sure it is a good idea to assume what has happened with transfers in the past will continue. (I had assumed Summer Freshman Class would continue and look what happened.)</p>
<p>why waste the money going to a CAP? A CC is so much cheaper and the coursework is probably easier as well. It's not like UT looks at the college you come from when making transfer decisions, a college is a college and they are all equal.</p>