I’m pretty sure for Liberal Arts transfer, it’s all about the GPA.
Space concerns are basically only for Engineering and Business.
@kyotoraz I’m interested in McCombs, but Ill have to internally transfer as a junior since I wasn’t going to have my calculus credits ready in time. I hope internally transferring as a junior wouldn’t delay “graduating on time”. I’ve heard of people doing it before, but have you by any chance heard of some people not being able to?
I pretty much am trying to stay with the degree plan, taking the basic business classes (Financial/Managerial Accounting and business stats) out of the way since I know they are prerequisites for other courses. I just hope that I’ll be able to make in in next year.
@decorus Internal transferring can be a pain but its no where near the struggle compared to externals. Yes even internal transferring into McCombs is hard but you will have priority over every external applicant. If you keep your GPA up I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to get in. Also regarding your courses, you should be able to take most business courses even if you aren’t in McCombs.
Another day gone, no relief yet. When will we start seeing the results rolling in…
Add me to the list. Applied to Cockrell. Completing an AS in Math this semester at ACC and I also finished EPHYS 1&2, Statics, Diff EQ, and up to Cal3. 3.77 GPA, veteran, currently in the Reserves, no ECs.
This thread is about the only thing keeping me same at the moment, so I thought I should sign up and contribute.
Stats:
GPA 3.93 (although that UT administrative page before submitting my scholarship form said 3.8something- so I guess something was lost in translation)
Credits: Too many
2 essays - I think they’re really good haha
2 great letters of recommendation
Years of work experience and some extra curricular/volunteer time
1st choice- CNS (Biology). 2nd- Environmental Science
Does that mean you got accepted Jay or to add you to the list of people waiting still?
A lot of people are saying that their GPA is higher than the grade UT calculated for them. Is that because UT is using the +/- system and other schools just do ABCDF instead of A/A-/B+/B/B- etc? And there is a conversion difference bc 94=4.0 and 90 = 3.67? Or is something weird happening with people’s GPAs?
I would assume it’s because UT is considering some of the classes as non-transferable…and if the student got 4.0s in the those particular classes and they’re no longer counted towards the total average it would bring down UT’s GPA determination for the student. But that’s a guess…
Engineering: 1 of 26 Accepted
MyUTAustin: 1st ChemE - 2nd: CNS/Undec
MC2411: 1st ChemE - 2nd CNS/CS
UTchemE95: 1st ChemE
JD1327: 1st EE - 2nd US
arod356: 1st ECE 2nd - Aerospace
MyLonghorn: 1st ECE - 2nd
Chuffer: 1st AE - 2nd ME
plipplop: 1st ECE - 2nd Geology
TheThinker7: 1st ECE - 2nd ME
slov: 1st AE - 2nd
stevenjp: 1st ME - 2nd Civil
mmcvn9230: 1st ME - 2nd
fivesixyty: 1st PetE - 2nd
MathMeany: 1st PetE - 2nd ME
MyLonghorn: 1st ECE - 2nd
ecehopeful: 1st ECE - 2nd ME
cushmaster56: 1st ME - 2nd CNS/Physics
Chuffer: 1st AE - 2nd ME
Daniele96: 1st PetE - 2nd Undec.
blacksheep1234: 1st EE - 2nd
cushmaster56: 1st ME - 2nd CNS/Physics
Dayeedkhan: 1st PetE - 2nd ME
Singh0001: AE and ME
Silver95: ME and CNS/Physics
Person not on this thread: Accepted 4/15
hawaiinJay:
College of Liberal Arts: 12 of 26 Accepted
decorus: 1st Economics - 2nd COLA/undeclared
cmg123: 1st Psychology - 2nd school of Social Work
BilalMKhan: 1st Eco - 2nd CNS/Bio
granda50068: 1st Eco - 2nd CNS/CS
kgal1989: 1st journalism - 2nd undec
xlolpx: 1st Psychology - 2nd COLA/undec
britboy94: 1st Govt - 2nd
Pianoman911: 1st Psychology - 2nd COLA/English Accepted 4/17
nikecheck: 1st Psychology - 2nd CoE- Exercise Science
nikecheck: 1st Psychology - 2nd CoE/Exercise Science
ashh18: 1st Soc - 2nd COLA/American
schoolguy696969: 1st Eco - 2nd
Gymgirl22: 1st Psychology - 2nd Comm Speech
bonehead180: 1st Econ - 2nd CNS/Math
aep022: 1st Soc - 2nd
mendoza04: Psychology - 2nd CNS/undec Accepted 4/16
LlamaTheAlpaca: Hist - 2nd - Accepted 4/16
BCooke: COLA/Philosophy - Accepted 4/16
MFFLfromAlaska: COLA- Spanish - Accepted 4/16
jck2475: COLA/Int. Relations - Accepted 4/16
vo5512: COLA - Accepted 4/16
maxpour: COLA/Psychology - Accepted 4/16
puravida14: COLA/Int. Relations - Accepted 4/16
ars2020: COLA/Economics - Accepted 4/16
Lmazoo: COLA - Accepted 4/16
yeboy11: COLA/Studio Art Accepted 4/20
College of Natural Sciences: 0 of 10 Accepted
Kyotoraz: 1st CNS/Chemistry - 2nd COLA/undeclared
ssppiikkeerr: 1st CNS/Biology 2nd-undecided
petitemish: 1st CNS - 2nd
ohnt64: 1st CNS/Math - 2nd
cristofff: 1st CNS/Neuroscience 2nd -Psychology
cathys424: 1st CNS/Bio - COLA/Psychology
regmi1: 1st CNS/Physics - 2nd CNS/Math
umark96: 1st CNS/CS - 2nd Cockrell/ECE
keeshondqueen: CNS/undec
Hryupandwait: CNS/Biology - 2nd- Environmental Science
Moody college of communications: 0 of 12 Accepted
cdctransfer: 1st Moody/RTF - 2nd COLA/undec
csteel21: 1st Moody/PR 2nd Advertising
camgard: 1st Moody/RTF - 2nd Moody/Adv
cdctransfer: 1st Moody/RTF - 2nd COLA/undec
texaslivin: 1st Moody/Adv - COLA/undec
summeroo: 1st Moody/RTF - 2nd COLA/Eng
Texaslivin: 1st Moody - 2nd
alexd15: 1st Moody/RTF - 2nd
aub2014: 1st Moody/PR - 2nd COLA/undec
cagirl24: 1st Moody/Journ - 2nd COLA/Eng
Juliannaems: Public relations
aksamq8: Journalism - 2nd unspecified business
McCombs: 1 of 5 Accepted
dlm140030: McCombs/unspecified - Accepted 4/16
ecollin: 1st McCombs/undec - 2nd
l8erSMU: business - 2nd COLA/economics
puthar96:
Toastyful: 1st McCombs/undec - 2nd COLA/Econ
Other Schools: 0 of 3 Accepted
hhicks10: 1st CoE - 2nd COLA
itsbananas: 1st Communications/Advertising - 2nd CNS/Undec
Geekytheatergeek: 1st CFA/BFA Theater - 2nd
I think the GPA calculated by UT could go wrong if their equivalence system does not have something equivalent for that course, mostly I guess would be for out of state folks. @Hryupandwait , did you call admissions to clarify?
UT doesn’t convert your GPA to the +/- scale. Your GPA more than likely drops due to not having a course transfer through.
No, I didn’t. I’m from California originally and that is where I did my former schooling, so I just figured (as you said) that there would end up being classes that did not transfer.
Is there a way to find out my calculated GPA even though the scholarship application tab has closed?
@Geekytheatregeek The only way +/- could possibly enter into it is if your original institution assigns a different value to plusses and minuses, e.g. 0.25 grade point rather than the more conventional 0.33 or if an A+ is higher than 4.0 (UT has no A+ grade and in transfer counts it the same as A).
As others have said, your original institution’s GPA calculation may include courses UT considers nontransferable and therefore excludes from their admission computation – these are typically subfreshman/remedial courses like beginning/intermediate algebra or workforce courses at community colleges.
One possibility no one has mentioned is your original institution may have a forgiveness policy on repeated courses – i.e. you make a low grade on a course, repeat it with a better grade, and they include only the later higher grade in the GPA calculation. UT has no such policy for its own students and applies the same practice in computing the external transfer admission GPA; grades from all occurrences of repeated courses are included.
Totally forgot to post this, but I called admissions on Monday. I said I’ve heard people have started to get admitted and have to accept their offer by May and wanted to know how much longer it might be for other applicants. The lady I was talking to was surprised by that and didn’t think I was right. She put me on hold for a minute, and then said something like “Sorry about that, I didn’t realize that had been happening already.” She then said she talked to someone and told me that yes some people have already gotten in, and others should find out within the next couple of weeks if you have more than 30 hours.
I just don’t understand how they work. It’s always a different story every time. I guess the main thing I took away is we’re all just along for the ride and just have to keep waiting, as annoying as it is!
I have checked with the Fall 2014 forum about transfers who were still waiting to submit their 30 credit hours, and for the most part, people started hearing back within June 15-18ish, and those were Liberal Arts. I believe Liberal Arts were some of the first to hear their decisions back, and others such as McCombs were one of the later ones, especially internal transfers.
Good luck to everybody!
Hopefully that is the case @decorus unfortunately though, the last years forum also showed that almost all people with 30 hours or above found it around April 15th… and there are still a ton of those applicants who have not found out yet. Hopefully, UT will speed it up for all of us… with our without 30 hours
@PastePotPete Thank you for the thorough answer! I did not have any of those courses so my GPA should be what I calculate it to be. Phew.