@maxentius I think its really kewl that your applying to ut when your only 11!! Im 10, do you think i still have a chance xD
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@chucotx, when did you get accepted ?
@helicopter8 December 10th
@chucotx congrats! when did you apply, if you don’t mind me asking?
Looks like we have to wait until February <:-P
i called and they said most decisions will be out mid february
Mid February? Bummer. I’m not sure I get the point of auto admit at this point since you still have to wait and wait and wait and go thru review to see if you get the major of your choosing.
@NotSoPatient Exactly. Complete BS since what they are, in all actuality, doing is awaiting internationals/OOS/lazy in state applicants to apply so they can give our spots to higher-scoring nonresidents. “State schools exist to educate residents of the state” YEAH, right. They are overloading their Business/Engineering/CS schools to pump their stats as well, it is almost impossible to get classes in those. (because higher-scorers tend to apply to those schools, and they accept more than they can).
Actually, UT’s non-resident student population is relatively low compared to other top public flagship schools. Only 7% of the student body is domestic out of state, with only 2% being international.
https://admissions.utexas.edu/explore/freshman-profile
Compare that to Cal and UCLA which recently implemented measures to cap the OOS percentage to 30%; the fact that the University of Virginia’s student body is composed of only 69% of Virginians; or the University of Michigan where only 49% of the student body hails from Michigan.
In comparison to these top tier public schools, UT’s combined 9% OOS and foreign student population is paltry.
You only addressed one point @fatherof2boys . I also mentioned that UT is waiting for higher in-state students to apply. Not to mention that the 7% of non-residents ALL go to business/engineering, and 7% is proportionally huge when you look at the size of the LA, communications, Natural science, and other irrelevant schools. On top of that, UT is only 45% Caucasian, when texas is 80% Caucasian. Again, complete BS that they make us wait for 6 months when we had the interest/initiative to apply early, ON TOP of being auto-admits.
According to the Census Bureau, Texas is 43.5% white non-Hispanic/Latino. UT students are 45% white non-Hispanic.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48000.html @Austinwannabe That isn’t the right number. It is 80% white.
Cappex, you need keep reading. 80% is the total white number. Look a few lines down and you will see the white non-Hispanic/Latino number is 43.5%.
@cappex your link gives two numbers for the white population of Texas but only the 43.5% is mathematically possible if Hispanics are not counted as white.
Wow, @cappex you might want to consider changing your major to Liberal Arts because its the best college for teaching you how to make a cogent argument without raising irrelevant matters (race demographics) or unsupported speculative assertions (all OOS applicants being prospective business/engineering majors). 
With respect to your latter point, I actually attended UT for undergraduate and law school and I can attest from first-hand knowledge that not all OOS students on the 40 Acres are business/engineering majors. Its interesting that you consider any college outside of business/engineering to be “irrelevant schools.”
I think you’ll find with real world experience that you’ll need architects to design the buildings you work in who attended the School of Architecture; nurses to provide you healthcare who attended the School of Nursing; pharmacist to provide you medication who attended the College of Pharmacy; teachers who educate your children, (and presumably you), who attended the College of Education; chemist and biologist who develop the life-extending drugs you’ll need as you age who attended the College of Natural Science; entertainers who study their craft in the College of Fine Arts; and yes graduates from the College of Liberal Arts where if you enroll in a English Rhetoric and Composition course you’ll learn the skills to make well-founded arguments, or a Human Geography course where you’ll learn the distinction between Caucasian and White which would have prevented you from making the erroneous assertion about UT’s demographics. A final word on that topic, the state of Texas is 12.5% Black; however, UT’s student body is only 4% Black. Based on those stats, one could argue that UT needs to admit 3 times as many Black students; however, I don’t imagine you’d support that proposition.
Finally, UT does not practice rolling admissions. Consequently, it has never promised that the earlier you send your application in, the earlier you will get an admission decision. UT’s holistic admission process requires each application to be reviewed individually. If you check the Twitter feed for UT Austin Admissions which is @BeaLonghorn, you’ll see an exchange posted on September 4 in which an applicant asked when she could expect decisions if she applied by early August. The UT Austin Admissions response was the following: “Around March 1, unless you applied to an honors program that guarantees an early decision.”
Now, I fully expect that not everyone will have to wait until March 1 - my son was accepted into his major on 11/17. However, UT has never made any assurances as to when it would be making admission decisions. This is especially the case when the admission deadline is December 1 and those applications need to be reviewed holistically so it should be no surprise that most applicants, especially for the most competitive majors, would not hear back on their applications until after that date. That’s because you are correct on one point in your post and that is that you will be compared to everyone else who has applied for that major, which is what most top tier schools do. Good luck.
Wonderful post, @fatherof2boys, though I do believe that UT states that, should an application be submitted prior to October 15, a decision will likely be received before the Christmas holidays.
@SirPepsi I was aware that UT states that there is a priority deadline for the honors programs, but I haven’t seen that for admission to the university major which is a different application process.
The freshman honors program page states the following: “Aside from the regular application deadline of Dec. 1, several honors programs have priority or recommended deadlines”…it then goes on to list the priority deadline for honors programs is October 15; however, that’s for admission to the honors programs not admission to UT generally.
https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/freshman-honors#fndtn-freshman-honors-required-majors
I know that Liberal Arts Honors states it will make a decision by the winter break if an application is submitted by October 15. “LAH has a recommended application completion date of October 15. If an application is submitted by that date, we will try to have a decision made before winter break, but it is not guaranteed. December 1 is the absolute deadline to have your UT and honors application completed.”
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lahonors/admissions/Admissions-Process.php
However, I don’t think the October 15 priority application date applies to UT admissions as a whole. I attended a LAH info session and the person who conducted that presentation clearly conveyed that the admission process to UT and to the Honors Program are separate and distinct. This is how I contextualize the post from UT Admissions which tweeted the following about the admissions decisions: “Around March 1, unless you applied to an honors program that guarantees an early decision.”
My son received his major decision on November 17; however, he also applied to LAH by their priority deadline date which is why we believe he received an earlier admission decision on his major. Also, it is my understanding that some of the honors programs, such as Plan II practice rolling admissions, whereas the freshman admissions to the University are not made on a rolling basis.
@fatherof2boys , thanks for this information. I knew there was a reason why we submitted (App/LAH/PlanII) prior to Oct 15th, (actually mid August). One was so we could submit the housing app and get in line early, which we did. The other was the chance of getting a response by what I thought was mid December. I’ve been looking for this info on their website but haven’t found it. I guess what they’re saying it’s no guarantee to get LAH decision Christmas break though. So do you think they have to make a decision on the school/major App prior to LAH, or could they truly be independent?
Hi @TXDad56, you did something similar to me and my son. I can’t speak for all honors programs. I can only tell you what was told to me and my son during the info session we attended for LAH. We did not go to a Plan II info session as my son only applied to LAH.
We were told that by LAH that if they were interested in an applicant who applied by the October 15 priority deadline date, that they might notify freshman admissions folks of their interest. Thus, they might be able to get freshman admissions to make an earlier determination on an applicant’s admission to UT, and that decision might get communicated to the applicant earlier.
Based on that info, my son submitted has application to UT and LAH well prior to the October 15 LAH priority date. We did so with the hope that, (in addition to getting into LAH), he might also hear back earlier on his admission to UT generally. My son is a Texas resident, but he is NOT a top 7% applicant who qualifies for automatic admission to UT as an auto-admit; however, he received his admission/major acceptance from UT on 11/17 when the first batch of major acceptances where communicated. Based on the preceding, we believe that he received the early notification from freshman admissions because he had applied to LAH.
I should state we have not received any notification that he has in fact been accepted to LAH. It may be that because he is not an auto-admit, LAH wanted to ensure he could actually get accepted into UT by freshman admissions before giving him serious consideration for LAH. However, this part is all speculation by me.
I can tell you for certain, that at least with respect to LAH…admission to LAH is a separate and distinct process from UT freshman admissions. The LAH folks do not make the freshman admissions decisions to UT generally, only to the LAH program. Good luck to your child’s application.