@nomatter It appears your “narrow sight” of admissions of supporting auto-admit on just one factor, the easily manipulated GPA, that factors in such classes as fine arts represents a “severely limited view” on admissions.
I think that debating is prohibited on CC, and I think that the response that I’d like to give would constitute just that. So, I’ll leave you with this thought-- UT is a highly demanded school both inside and outside of Texas, and for good reason. The students who gain admission earn it through hard work, ability, and talents, and will have many great opportunities. They’ll go on to succeed at college and beyond. Don’t despair, UT isn’t wasting seats on students who cannot succeed. Because of space constraints, some very good students, who also would have thrived, will not get in. It can be disappointing. It can be tempting to start tilting at windmills as a way of self-validating that which was never even challenged. If they let themselves (and the vast majority will), they will find the next perfect place to plant themselves, and there they will grow and bloom just as well.
UT is a great school. Still, college admissions is competitive. There are going to be some winners and some losers. And, much as we’d all like to set the rules of competition (and slant them in our own favor), that is not, at all, how the game is played.
Any chance regular decision (I am awaiting a COFA decision) comes out this Friday?
@bms2222 Any chance? sure but only guarantee is that the decision will be on or before March 1. Good luck.
We experienced the same with UTSA. (It has been a rough couple of weeks.) My daughter had to work at 5 pm MST when CAP opened and so she took her computer to work, asked her manager if she could be a few minutes late so she could log in and enroll in UTSA. I sat out in the car so I could take her computer after she finished and she called me to come inside because UTSA was closed. She was on the site at exactly 5 pm MST and the wheel just timed out. She was so very disappointed to not get into UTSA. It’s hard to believe that it filled up within a minute. Does anyone know how many slots UTSA has? And if someone changes their mind and doesn’t attend UTSA in the CAP slot, does that spot get offered to someone else? (It has been a rough year for our whole family and I’m just trying to find a glimmer of hope. I know it will all work out in the end but I’m just curious. Thank you for your time.)
Anyone know what the letter is that’s coming in the mail today? I see a letter from the Office of the President in USPS informed delivery.
@collegemom111111 pls update us once u get in hand , excited to know 
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Got it today too. It’s just an “official” admission letter. Anyone know if they still send “gone to Texas” banner???
@longhornedgator They do still send the banner BUT we had to call and get them to send another because the one they sent never arrived. We did receive it eventually.
I believe they will send the banner once you pay the necessary admission fees and commit to going there.
Oh … When my older daughter was admitted it came with her official letter. We had it for the photo when she finally committed! Def was here “lookiing” at us while we weighed the options!
@longhornedgator It comes before you accept - just call the admission office if you haven’t received it.
Has anyone heard from Architecture dept?
@Suave123 @longhornedgator We actually received the official acceptance letter and banner already. So this must be something else. Waiting on a decision from CNS Dean’s Honor program, so I was hoping it might be related. Although portal still shows that they’re still reviewing it. I’ll check when I’m home later and post.
@all it is just a letter from the President welcoming those that have been accepted - nothing else.
My daughter was just accepted on 2/1. This letter from Greg Fences was dated 2/5 and received today. I called admissions and they said a packet from Moody was also sent in 2/5 and contains the welcome banner. They said if I don’t receive it this week to call back and they will send another.
Yes! Please update and let us know what you find in your mailbox @collegemom111111
I’m good with Texas favoring instate but my home state does not do this so we instate residents face a disadvantage against OOS. So unless we all adopt the same concept there are going to be students out of the best options because the system was inconsistent. Texas is also majorly flawed in that a class of 20 still gets their top student accepted in the rural communities regardless of actual academic achievement.
Just got into Studio Art in COFA while randomly checking MyStatus. So excited!!
@cb7733 Congrats. When was the last time you checked prior to tonight? Did you just receive it tonight or was it sitting there over the weekend?
@nomatter Thanks for sharing this. The essays are so subjective and it always makes me wonder if when an applicant has all the right stats, test scores, and even ECs if at the end of the day it is something about their essays that ultimately turns off the person reading them. That is often the only truly “personal” aspect of the application and what separates the applicants from one another.
Last year our valedictorian didn’t get into a lot of schools he applied to and everyone was perplexed. I often told my kids that I felt it had to be his essays. What else could it have been? While a lot of schools don’t put a lot of weight into them, I do still think that could be the deal breaker. Also, sometimes the “smartest” kids (or those that think they’re the smartest, wait until the last second to do their essays, don’t have anyone review them, don’t take the time to really work on them and think about their answers and it then ultimately shows. My daughter really put a lot of thought into her essays and I remember the one about the grades and she was very humble in it and talked about a time when she earned a bad grade by her own doing and what the lesson learned from it was. Not because a teacher wronged her or that she was entitled. She showed her own humiliation which I felt showed character. I think the school wants to see the character, so I agree, parents often can’t figure out why their “great” kid isn’t getting in, but aren’t looking at the big picture and sometimes it is staring them in the face! This is why the process is holistic!!!