Hi! Is anyone else a Dedman finalist and will be at the weekend in April?
Question about the housing contract - do I have to select a roommate? If I don’t, will they randomly assign me one?
@hurricane314 Not at this moment. They don’t start doing all of that until June. You can sign your contract but then not move on to fill out the rest of the form. It will keep you spot in the queue.
@Jennibc Ah, got it, thanks for your help!
You just state your preference of Dorm, if staying on campus, and then a short survey of the type of person your student is for roommate matching. Like @Jennibc, stated, roommate selection probably will not start until June.
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my question. I really appreciate it.
When do they decide on DC and AP credits for your courses? During Orientation?
@ut2024 While I don’t know the answer to your specific question, there is a handy function on UT’s website where you can figure out how the dual credits earned at a particular community college will transfer so there are no surprises. Hopefully the following link will show up http://utdirect.utexas.edu/adtreq/search2.WBX
@UT2024 Yes your advisor will go over all of this with you especially taking AP credit. If the AP credit is needed to get into a higher level class for the first semester they will tell you to take that for credit. You’ll do this over the course of your four years taking the credit about a semester before to give you a better registration time period as well as the credit. Your student will also do periodic Interactive Degree Audit reports to make sure the credit is going the way they want it applied for the degree plan and no surprises by senior year.
Make sure that Dual Credit gets transferred over to UT and is in the system by the summer. Lookup how that particular class transfers over to your 4 year curriculum and how you want it applied. I usually print out the curriculum then highlight the class and write next to it whether a AP or Dual Credit class or UT OnRamps class is fulfilling that requirement. Remember the goal is no surprises by senior year and your student able to talk to their advisor (they don’t get a whole lot of time) so make it effective. Also you’ll track which classes give you which Flags that you need to fulfill. It seems hard but it’s just tracking and with 50k students - your student needs to own this.
If anything isn’t applied correctly to the class you want - the advisor will have to fix.
If anyone has taken AP US Govt class - they can also signup to take the Exam for the GOV 310L American Government class. This is not automatic with AP credit. My son did this right after winter break and said it was pretty easy to pass with minor review. So look at the Exams given and see if any make sense for you to take as well. My daughter took the one for Chem 301 and got the credit for it. Do not expect UT to be telling you about this stuff.
Half the battle is knowing how to do this stuff.
Apologies if this question has been asked before. We’re still in the decision phase–although now we’re down to three schools. Daughter (music major–accepted a few weeks ago) has housing already at SRD, which we can pull out of on/before April 10, but I’m wondering if I should go ahead and sign her up for Orientation. They only offer College of Fine Arts stuff at Sessions 1, 2, 4, and 5. I’m a little concerned about daughter not being able to get in to those orientation sessions if she waits too long. (She’s on Spring Break next week and may get her music scholarship offer then. Regardless, she’s now heard back from all her schools and needs to make a final decision.)
So: If she clicks on “Accept” on her admission page, can she still pull out by May 1 if she decides to go elsewhere? If we’re out the deposit, that is okay with us. Hubby and I are both Texas Exes 
@OrangeJacket The deposit for the place in class is no longer refundable, but you can get a partial refund on orientation if you choose not to go there and cancel with enough time. I can’t remember exactly how much but they do subtract a processing fee. We decided that we were paying that as ‘insurance’ to get the the orientation spot that would be most convenient for our family.
All new admit events have just been cancelled until further notice. I wonder if this will end up spilling over to orientation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=oXRnFP9qcRs&feature=emb_logo
yeah, my daughter and I were going to visit tomorrow. She called the school today and they told us not to come. Because of commitments, this was likely our only chance to visit the engineering department. I suspect that this will be the final push for her to go to TAMU, which is really where she wants to go anyway.
I don’t want this to sound in any way like we blame the school for the cancellation or that we are bitter about it. It’s just that she had pretty much already decided on A&M and I was trying to get her to keep her options open. I doubt that she would choose a school that she didn’t visit.
Since some people mentioned AP calculus credits, I will share my older son’s experience. He is a senior Electrical and Computer Engineering major and started in 2016. He got a 5 on the Calculus BC AP test and as it was explained then, UT Austin squeezes about 3 semesters of math into 2 semesters. The 5 on the Calculus BC exam allowed him to start with the 2nd semester class.
The housing process for UT Austin occurs later than most other universities, but I would suggest having a roommate in find for when the time comes.
Did anyone here apply to the Jefferson Scholars Program? I applied but I haven’t been able to find anyone else that did lol.
has anyone appealed a CAP decision this year and heard back?
When will UT decide if any dorms will be open/closed in the Fall 2020?
Today Dr. Fauci is predicting a second wave of coronavirus in the fall.
Yes! I’m wondering this too, as I was about to sign two leases for private dorms for my twins and can’t take that huge risk if there is no on-campus school in the fall.
@skjj52 I have a friend that got in on a CAP appeal for engineering.