@collegerigged this is what you said: probably trying to prove to Texas Legislature this year that auto admit is not working, admitting mostly low stats. - as if you think they have a choice over who they admit and are manipulating the outcome. Maybe I misunderstood your point.
@UTWannabe23 they do have a choice with the remaining 25%, read through the thread to see all the high stats, non auto-admit that were rejected or capped. They think the high stats see UT as a safety school and they won’t actually commit effecting their yield and ranking.
The letter is so vague. Mine wrote, “We regret that we are not able to offer you admission at this time.
Thank you for your interest in The University of Texas at Austin. After a careful review of your application materials, we regret that we are not able to offer you admission at this time.” Does that mean that I’m rejected? I assume so, it’s just not very clear because they keep saying ‘at this time.’
maybe they figure their school is considered as a safety school to most of these top-notched applicants especially to those OOS. I know we couldn’t afford the $52k if there were no merit aid for my DD. she has already been offered $$ from other OS and IS schools.
@collegerigged again, you don’t know that they are accepting low stats in the non-auto admit category - you are simply assuming that since so many high stat kids got rejected that they are taking low stats instead - not a fair extrapolation at all. I agree that “low stat” students get in via auto admit but the university has not control over that.
@ecart17 that is definitely not a deferral - it is a non-cap rejection I believe … you would think that a university would have more clear communications.
@nikbert where do you see scholarships on the my status page? or were they in your mail package? Thanks.
@UTWannabe23 Their 75 percentile is 1410, that’s low
@collegerigged and that is driven down by the 6% auto admit … not by the discretionary admits.
@UTWannabe23 University of Miami ranked 53 has 75th percentile of 1440, University of Washington ranked 59 also has a 75th percentile of 1440, am not assuming when the numbers are the published student profiles. UT’s SAT range is lower than lower ranked schools.
@collegrigged @UTWannabe23 that 1410 would be another 100 points higher perhaps if they all had an expensive and competitive private education where they were around like-minded students?
@collegerigged what is your point? you have completely lost the original point you were trying to make and now are simply proving the obvious - that the 6% rule hurts the overall numbers for UT - on that we can agree. So are you going to Miami or Washington? do you think they are better schools?
@UTWannabe23 they think they are based on the students they accept
applied to mccombs, got an interview for the honors program and still rejected. oos female. 1460 sat, 32 act, 4.00 gpa, ib diploma candidate at #2 ranking school in the state, and valedictorian. hearing everyone else’s oos stats, i’m not surprised i was rejected as well. i guess i gotta look elsewhere 
@collegerigged they HAVE to accept anyone in the top 6% of any high school in Texas no matter what their SAT score is - hence the problem …
My son is not from an expensive, private school. He is from a very competitive public school where the students are “like minded” …in that sense that they are all hard working, talented students, each excelling in different subjects and activities. He will be fine wherever he goes, and so will the rest of the kids from his school.
@kesari I agree. Good students at a competitive public high school have the ability to become even better students at competitive university
Sorry to hear about those rejected and deferred today. Sounds like lots of very impressive students with very high stats. As a parent, I know we all try to predict different scenarios and hope we’ve set our children up for the best options. But we shouldn’t beat ourselves up thinking we should have suggested or influenced differently. In any case, seems like all the great universities are getting harder and harder to get into every year. It’s very stressful and frustrating. The Texas law seems to complicate things. We’re OOS so we are new to the Texas auto admit thing, but D was accepted a couple of weeks ago CNS (I’m surprised after reading all these posts). D has very good stats, but I’ve seen some better or same on here rejected. So who knows how it works. Best wishes to everyone and good night.
@txaggiemom We’re one asking about Dean’s. Portal hasn’t changed. What should we be looking for specifically?