University of Texas at Austin Class of 2023 Admissions

@Sushi121212 I’m sure many of the orientation sessions are already full. Also you can’t necessarily go to any one of them because certain colleges are on certain dates, so make sure you sign up for a date that is for the college you were admitted to.

When my daughter signed up in the first hour when registration opened for the first weekend, there were only a few slots left, so I’m assuming that one is full. I would think the second one might be as well, but most colleges tend to hold spots and open new sections throughout a summer of orientation to make it fair for everyone. Also, don’t forget in August there will be a lot of adds and drops for various reasons, including kids not passing certain placement tests thereby having to take a lower class, or the opposite placing out into a higher class, and how AP scores affect classes.

For people who have been through this before, how is preference given in later semesters? Is it first come first serve, by ID#, last name, random? Do honors students get priority?

@srparent15 First two sessions are full at this time. If I remember from the past - slots opened up when people didn’t pay in a timely fashion. You will get dropped from Orientation if you don’t pay. I remember doing third session with my daughter (I did the family orientation) so it’s not a big deal and AP scores are not known at that time.

From UT website: If you are a current undergraduate student, your access times are assigned to you based on your progress toward your degree at the time your registration record is created, and are not updated automatically when you claim test credit, or when transfer work is applied to your record. See your adviser if you have questions about your progress toward your degree.

Athletes get preferential registration. 40 Acres Scholars do as well. I think each Honors program will mention whether they get preferential registration. If you have a Bar on your account you will not be able to register. Bars can happen for all sorts of reasons - like all freshman have Bars with regard to vaccination. **In general the more progress in your degree the easier it is to register SO claiming credit for AP and WHEN to claim that credit is usually told to you by your Advisor. NO need to claim all credit if it doesn’t mean a better registration than claiming it for only 1 class.

Lots of freshman add/drops going to happen the beginning of the semester. Waitlists are Critical to understand !!!
Many students use waitlists in different ways: to get a professor they really want, or a time period that works better or moving a class they would rather not take later but take it earlier in the curriculum or to add a class to replace a different class. Be flexible.

Many times I’ve heard of students failing to pay tuition by the due date (which is early!) and you get dropped from your classes. So what happens? Someone on a waitlist gets in. Those emails go to your student ! If your student isn’t good at staying on top of things - figure out another system (just my opinion).

Remember to set up your parent proxy online as well. Very very important. It isn’t enough to say you pay the bills to speak to anyone.

So anyone else feeling skeptical about UT with this whole admissions scandal? The UT admissions team has definitely got some corruption issues (I know it was the tennis coach that was fired but there’s no way they weren’t aware), and I’m still unsure if I want to accept my UT admission… I’m partly worried that this whole thing is gonna taint UT’s reputation, and also it’s just really messed up

@bagellover2 It would be a huge mistake to reject your admission based on a rogue Tennis coach who was falsifying athletic ability to grant athletic scholarships - highly unlikely that the admissions office or the UT administration knew anything at all about this scandal. There are a lot of schools that wish they were “elite” enough to be considered as part of this scandal. Do you really believe that Yale is tainted by this?

@bagellover2 additionally, I am quite sure there are plenty of people in line to take your spot if you are so inclined.

Ok

@comptechmom What is a parent proxy?

@jazzymomof7 Because of FERPA laws you won’t be able to do anything on behalf of your student. So UT has an eProxy system http://eproxy.utexas.edu/ that allows the student to give a parent approval to do these things (hence the name parent proxy). It’s on the financial aid page for the setup I believe. Once school starts if you were to call into financial aid - they would verify that you have access to your student’s records.

Remember your student is now an adult and the same holds true for medical/health as well. As a parent you will not have access without the right paperwork. Set it up at home IF you need to and you feel this is important for your situation.

I found an interesting set of graphs today while researching dorm choices. It’s about 5 years old but shows satisfaction ratings and average GPAs for all residence halls on campus. Thought I would share:

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2014/04/29/report-ut-needs-3900-additional-on-campus-beds-to-meet-student-demand

UT Austin In The News - “Mathematics’ Highest Prize Awarded to UT Austin’s Karen Uhlenbeck”

A professor emerita of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin has received mathematics’ top international award for the year. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has named Karen Uhlenbeck its 2019 Abel Prize award winner…

https://news.utexas.edu/2019/03/19/mathematics-highest-prize-awarded-to-ut-austins-karen-uhlenbeck/

@dogwood18 - she was just in Austin mid January for Dr. Freed’s birthday conference- Between Topology and Quantum Field Theory. My DS got to hear her speak. :slight_smile:

I am getting a lot SPAM from TX realtors lately. Seems UT sold our info to them since we are OOS and DS got accepted. Is it really true that if we own a property in TX, we will be able to establish TX residency to pay in-state tuition?

@smpp19 Yes it is but you need to look at the ‘full’ Texas residency requirements. You can find it online. It requires doing everything for 1 full year, switching over drivers license, etc and your student must be ‘independent’ for tax purposes. UT Residency office will answer all questions as well.

I’m planning on living on campus and am starting to build a shopping list over the summer. Can a current student or parent with a current student tell me if I need a printer for myself? Or would I be better of using UT’s?

Anyone with news on Human Ecology Honors? Or any other honors programs still awaiting decisions? Not sure when to expect this news…

@egginmegan I know mine had a small printer in her dorm room but for larger jobs did printing on campus. Just remember you NEED to have that printer hard wired (cable) to your computer - wireless is not allowed in the dorms - you can’t even set it up. It’s just how UT works with the plans they have for data usage. You can read up on it online.

capped from UT, going to Columbia University. interesting turnaround.

Same w my D. Admitted to 5 Universities ranked well ahead of UT. Something is broken at UT and over time it will have its impact.

why the necessity to attack the place you didn’t get in? If you think the result is so much better then rejoice in the result …

Why? Because I wanted to spend less not more on my D’s undergrad degree and because my wife and I both wanted to continue the tradition w our D attending. And there’s a big diff in attacking the admissions policies than in attacking the school the school as a whole. All those reasons.