Hartzell already announced in person next semester. So remote shouldn’t be an issue at least as far as that.
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Thank you. I guess it doesn’t hurt to ask and raise the question of why not some in person since everyone can be vaccinated. Hopefully UT requires students to get vaccinated before coming to campus in fall.
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Quick questions… we are leaning towards accepting ut austin for my son and as premed… we have following questions and need help:
- we didnt get accepted to honors program, is there a way to request reconsideration or its set and cannot be changed?
- we didnt submit fafsa or financial aid, does ut austin still award scholarships/aid, or do we need to submit anything else…
thanks in advance.
Even if you could appeal the Honors decision, the deadline for appeals has passed. Some Honors programs allow you to apply again the following year so you should look into that.
Also, I think there is a deadline for applying for financial aid so that’s another thing you probably have to wait until next year to apply for and meet the deadline, but you can also call the financial aid office (info below) and find out if there’s anything you can do. Most likely way too late for scholarships as there was a deadline months ago for that and those have been awarded already.
Very, very difficult. Changing majors, even within engineering, is extremely hard. And since CS is not in engineering at UT (it’s in CNS), it’s probably even harder. This is one of my biggest gripes with UT. I suppose if you are changing to a less competitive major, maybe it’s not impossible, but changing into a very competitive major (and CS might be MOST competitive major at UT) is difficult bordering on the impossible.
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ECE is close enough to CS and would be an equally respectable major as viewed by hiring companies, so don’t get scared off if you can’t officially switch to the CS major at UT. Take a look at comments on the Reddit/UTAustin site. It seems like there are lots of students who were not CS majors, but chose to do the Certificate program for CS, or Computing, or Data Science and actually landed really good jobs as software developers. The Certificate program is not just a fancy word for a Minor. Sounds like you get to register for the same rigorous classes that the majors take and get access to a larger # of class choices. Also look into the new program called Freshman Research Initiative, FRI. It may be open to non-Science majors, and there are more opportunities than traditional Science lab work. I’ve seen students post that they did coding/CS projects for different companies in Austin as part of FRI. That would be a huge, real-world experience that freshmen don’t normally get the opportunity to do.
UT gives very few scholarships for entering freshmen…And many that they do offer are at least partially need-based, so if you didn’t fill out FAFSA, that will be out. I will say that there are several scholarship opportunities once your child is a UT student, however, they aren’t huge. They are small departmental scholarships. They are nice but will not help enough to be a deciding factor on whether on not to attend. For example, in my LHS’s first semester, he got a $100 scholarship for a paper being well-written (just as a class assignment). This year he got a $750 scholarship that he applied for as part of the bridging disciplines program. These are wonderful to get, but not going to cover tuition. If your kid ends up at UT and you didn’t fill out FAFSA, I am going to assume you are middle class+. You just have to look at UT as a great value for the quality of education your child will receive.
It’s actually not the same. ECE is Computer Engineering and CS is Comptuer Science. Kids who are interested in the actual hardware aspect of computers study CE and the ones who want to program study CS. It is hard to get into CS courses if you are not in CNS as a CS major at UT and it is also near impossible to get into ECE courses if you are not an Engineering major. Getting a job isn’t the issue, it’s getting the training. If you’re diligent and able to self teach yourself programming than being stuck in ECE isn’t the end of the world, but Engineering at UT is a really hard path and demanding major and if you’re not 100% in you will not make it. If someone wants to study CS and go into software engineering, and doesn’t get into CS off the bat, UT is not the place for them.
I see what you’re saying. However on Reddit, there’s been a number of students (current and just graduated) who have talked about doing the Certificate program in a CS-related field (Computing Elements, for example) that UT offers, taking x number of the CS courses listed, and landing jobs. Perhaps they could only get into the CS courses in the summer. No idea what those students’ official major at UT is/was though.
Sigh, my parents don’t think I should completely eliminate it yet because of how great job prospects and internships are, but this definitely makes the decision far more complicated. Hoping that another top school will provide me with financial aid. Luckily still have two weeks to see what will happen!
Thank you! Love all of those ideas and will consider. My parents are willing to work with me even for a high priced college, but it is hard to justify CBHP when my state school, which is decently ranked, is offering me a full ride in their honors business program. Just have to wait and see!
Good luck wherever you end up. CBHP is a great program and opens a lot of doors, but UT is not cheap for OOS students and living in Austin as a student can also be really expensive, especially in subsequent years. It is not hard to get residency but if you need a lot of aid to attend, then you would most likely find the easiest way, which is also the most challenging way from a time perspective and keeping up the workload there way, to be working a job for the minimum 20 hours/week for 12 months and attaining residency that way.
There are a couple other ways but the you should contact the residency office of the university to see what those are and see if they’re something you can do.
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Yesterday, I decided to accept my offer from UT as they cover all my tuition. So all I have to worry about is housing however, Austin housing is expenisive so I am looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on whether to live on campus in dorms or looking into certain off campus housing. I would be happy to hear any reccomendatiosn anyone may have. I don’t know if it helps I am a biochem major. Thanks!
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Do you qualify for SMART housing?
I am not sure. How would I find out if I do?
You must be receiving need-based financial aid. It’s based on your FAFSA I think.
I think most are filled but you can always get on a waitlist
Okay I will look into it. Thank you for the info!
Another idea to consider is to take the full-ride scholarship to your state univ and apply the college money saved toward a Master’s degree or grad school in the future. In general, there is not nearly as much scholarship money given out for graduate school as there is for undergrad (for specific, qualifying students such as yourself). Depends on the grad school field of study and/or whether you might work for a large company who will sponsor the cost of your Master’s degree (not that common anymore).
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Have they made an official announcement that fall classes will be in person?