Tennessee Class of 2022 Decision Thread

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I know the University of Tennessee page doesn’t get a lot of decision information posted, but I thought I would share these stats from my son for those interested.

ACCEPTED: Tickle College of Engineering
Applied: 9/10/2017
Decision: 9/14/2017 (Vol In Progress Portal)
Residency: OOS (Illinois)

ACT: 29 (English: 27, Math: 29, Reading: 28, Science: 31)
SAT: 1330 (R+W: 630, Math: 700)
GPA: Weighted: 4.57/ Unweighted: 3.81
Rank: 14/466
Activities: A good set of ECs, including math and science clubs, honor societies, volunteer work, paid work, and sports.

Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male

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My S:
Accepted, CASNR, Food Science.
In state, 27 ACT, 4.2 WGPA.
Applied 9/2, app was complete 9/12, accepted today.

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S applied 9/24, application complete 9/28 accepted 9/29
College of Engineering
OOS, ACT 35, WGPA 4.2/3.56 UW
$18k/year Volunteer Scholarship

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ACCEPTED: College of Engineering
Applied: 9/29/2017
Decision: 10/10/2017
Residency: In-state

ACT: 34
SAT: N/A
GPA: 3.95 (weighted)
Rank: N/A
Activities: Multiple years of varsity athletics, science clubs, volunteer work.
Honors: NMSF; $8K/year Volunteer Scholarship

Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male

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ACCEPTED: College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences
Major: 3+1 Animal Sciences Pre-Veterinary Medicine
Applied: 10/8/2017
Decision: 10/13/2017
Residency: OOS (Florida)
Ethnicity/Gender: Female/White

ACT: 34 (Reading 36, English 34, Math 32, Science 32)
SAT: 1420 (CRW 720 and Math 700)
GPA: 3.92 UW/ 4.76 W
Class Rank: 83/1053
EC’s: NHS, Speech and Debate, JV Soccer, Choir-Section Leader, Theatre, Drama Club, Elementary Reading Tutor, Student Athlete Math Tutor, 2 Jobs

7 AP Classes with 4’s or 5’s on all exams
Will be graduating with an AA from dual enrollment

Also received 18k Volunteer Scholarship and an offer to apply for the competitive scholarships and honors program.

Congrats to all accepted applicants!

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did all of you guys that applied already have your letter of recs in or not? im done with my whole app but wondering if i should submit it or wait till my teachers submit the letter

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My son was accepted before his letter of recommendation arrived.

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@rugby1562: Submit the application. LOR is not required. My son also was accepted before teacher LOR arrived.

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Decision: Accepted with the Volunteer Scholarship
Race: White
Gender: Female
School: On the bigger side, it’s a really good school ranked in the top 50 of NJ
Financial Stuff: I am very very lucky and basically financial aid is not a concern

UW GPA: 3.66
W GPA: 3.82 (Just for reference this is the average accepted weighted GPA for kids at my high school who got into Boston U and Northeastern)

SAT: Not submitting it but I got a 1280… funny how much better you can do on one test versus the other!
ACT: 30, super score 31
Reading: 34 1st time, 32 2nd
English: 33, 31
Math: 25 1st time, 27
Science: 29, 30

Courseload (no IBs at my school):
I’ve taken mostly honors and AP classes with the exception of my math classes and my senior year courseload is AP Lit, AP Environmental Science, AP Psych, AP Human Geo, and AP Gov
Last year I took 3 APs and my results on the test were:
AP Lang (4)
AP Gov (5)
AP Photo (5)

Activities:
-Written two books that are published on a website/app and they’ve gotten over 170k reads combined and were both ranked in the top 100 of their genre worldwide (like a million books or something)
-Thespian Honor Society (9-continuing)
-Lots of plays and musicals, played a lead last year and I have a leadership position in helping out the underclassmen and being like a role model this year that is like being a team captain for theatre (idk how else to describe it) (9-continuing)
-I joined a new program in my county where we are working on making the high schools more welcoming to diversity and helping some of the students in our county who can’t speak English (they immigrated from Latin American countries in the last five years) and aren’t treated equally and with respect in our community
-Photo Club (11 and 12)
-Church Youth Choir (10-11 was discontinued in 11th grade)

(I’m also in these but you can only be inducted at the end of our junior year at my school just so you know:
-NHS
-English Honor Society

Volunteer Stuff:
-Student director for my middle school’s musicals (11 and I’m going to again this year)
-Was on the planning committee for an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament where all funds went to a school/home for boys who struggle with various issues such as mental health and family issues (11)

I think my Common App essay is pretty strong, I would give it an 8/10, it talks about my love of photography but my intro is really interesting, it is me chasing after an eagle trying to get a picture of it lol

Teacher Recs:
9th grade English teacher: 10/10, she is the director for the musicals at my school and I have known her since I was in 7th grade, and she said it was easy to write my rec because “there are so many wonderful things about you” (her words not mine lol) so I think it was probably very strong
11th grade English teacher: 8/10, she apparently used very specific examples and is known to write great letters–I love her!!
Counselor: 7/10, she wrote about all of my family issues and explained that for me so it is probably less about who I am as a person and more my family issues

Hooks (? I don’t really want to call it this but): Family issues, witnessed a traumatic event involving family

Hopefully this will help some people!! Good luck on your admissions journey!!

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@sunflowerlover what are you majoring in?

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@allieb23 sorry–forgot to include that, International Affairs!

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I was accepted for General Biology Undergrad about a week ago but I am curious, people who got money, was that attached in your acceptance or sent out separately? I am almost certain I have the qualifying scores and GPA I just don’t know if it is all separate or the same, thanks!

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We got a separate letter that came a few days after the initial acceptance, giving the amount of Volunteer Scholarship money. I don’t recall whether the initial acceptance came with notification of an award of Volunteer Scholarship money.

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Original email and letter both referenced the awarded scholarship.

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My son was notified of the UT Volunteer Scholarship when his admission decision first posted at the UT VIP site.

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Status: Accepted today with Volunteer Scholarship!!!
College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering
Applied: 10/19
Residency: OOS (NC)
Female/White
SAT: M 800 V 680

ACT 33
AP’s 6 so far, will have 11 by graduation
GPA: W 4.68, UW 3.8
School: Large Public HS
Varsity Cross Country, Swimming and Track–4 years
Good luck to all applying!

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My portal hasn’t changed at all, I applied on October 30, do anyone know why it seems to be taking so long, am I checking the right place?

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It’s been just over 2 weeks since you applied and counselors are reviewing thousands of applications. My D applied around the same time as you and is waiting patiently. She did notice recently in her portal that her application was incomplete. She notified admissions who searched for and found her missing test scores. I’m impressed that these big institutions are able to process so many applications so quickly. The wait shouldn’t be much longer. Good luck to all!

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I applied October 27, my transcripts took a little while to go through but they’ve been in for 2 weeks and I still haven’t heard back from UT. Hopefully we will both receive an acceptance soon! Good luck to you

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Update: the portal says a decision is able to be viewed, when checking it’s just a blank page. I called the school and they said to check back later or within 24 hours, so if something similiar happens you know what to do