<p>I have been advised that since my D will not be an auto admit at UT to be careful in listing major choices in order to have a better chance of being accepted . Is that true and is College of Undergraduate Studies a good option for this scenario? Any other suggestions? </p>
<p>I was told (during my application days) that everyone who was accepted to UT but not their 1st or 2nd choice majors were automatically placed in College of Undergraduate Studies. </p>
<p>Absolutely true 10000% ^</p>
<p>Or liberal arts what are her test scores?</p>
<p>DS2 just finished the application process. He applied for Engineering and then CS. He had a 33 ACT and a GPA just under a 4.0. -great EC’s including Eagle Scout and lots of volunteer hours. </p>
<p>He was offered the CAP program, NOT Undergraduate Studies. </p>
<p>Please investigate another school as a safety option. You can NOT count on being placed in UGS. </p>
<p>The only students automatically offered UGS are in the top 7% auto admit range. If they can’t be placed in their requested majors, they get UGS.
For those outside the top 7%, like my son, UGS is not guaranteed.</p>
<p>We did have a relative with much lower stats get accepted into Elementary Education though. So, I do think avoiding STEM may help.</p>
<p>Do not apply to the college of undergraduate studies. Your D will have a higher chance of getting into the major she wants by applying to it directly. It is very difficult to transfer within UT. My sister was an auto admit and got into her 1st choice major, psychology, She than switched to the school of undergraduate studies and when she tried to transfer back into psychology, she was denied. Her friends who wanted to study engineering and were accepted into engineering but chose UGS were not able to transfer. It is very difficult to transfer and she needs a 4.0 if she wants engineering or business.</p>
<p>UGS is pretty big gamble. Honestly if you take the UGS route, you need to have an open major in Liberal Arts that you are okay with doing as a backup. Not all majors in Liberal Arts are open (ex. psych as mentioned above) but Liberal Arts is the only “open college”. </p>
<p>I would strongly recommend applying for the major of choice. If your daughter does not get into her major of choice but gets placed in undergraduate studies, I would check the internal transfer policies on the majors within UT that she is interested in and see if there’s a high chance that she would be able to internal transfer. Being in the undergraduate studies major is extremely risky.</p>
<p>I got accepted into UT Electrical and Computer Engineering Fall 2011. After one semester, I didn’t like it so I decided I wanted to transfer majors. In order for me to internally transfer to a different engineering major within the college of engineering, the applications for transfer only required a 2.0 or 2.5 gpa (I can’t remember). Having the GPA allows you to be elligible to apply but very far from guarantees you will get in. I was told the gpa minimums for each engineering major that they accepted and the lowest any engineering major accepted was a 3.2 though most engineering majors didn’t take below a 3.7. As a result, I found it much harder to internally transfer to another engineering major than to get accepted into an engineering major out of high school. Depending on the major you want, transferring can be ridiculously hard or very easy at UT. I ended up picking Mathematics. When I did the paperwork for transfer, the guy at the desk told me that the College of Natural Sciences is an open college and that I’d be automatically accepted since my gpa was above 2.0. Sure enough, I was accepted. I don’t fully understand the “open college” meaning because I know for a fact that Computer Science is in CNS and very tough to transfer into.</p>
<p>What gpa would be needed to get into nursing? By internal transfer</p>
<p>I intend on majoring in Engineering, but I will likely need to apply for UGS because my chances of being accepted into Cockrell are very low in my current state. I am in the Army currently and have little time to complete the more difficult classes I need to gain acceptance into Cockrell. My GPA is good at a 3.7, and I feel the military is a good perk for admissions. My options are either go to ACC upon my Ending Term of Service with the army to complete harder course work, or go straight to UT and apply for a change of major. I think I will go with trying my chances with UGS, and apply for a change of major. UT is my first choice, and I go to school in Texas currently, but GI Bill pays for all of my school anyways, so Georgia Tech, and Texas A&M could be realistic back up options if UT doesn’t want to let me transfer majors. </p>
<p>I could be wrong but I don’t believe transfer students will be able to choose the UGS route anymore</p>
<p>I saw that on the UT website, I was not sure if they were just revising the transfer criteria or not.</p>
<p>OK so basically after talking to the UGS dean UT is making a rule to where students in UT have higher preferences to get their majors before outside students do. So basically it will get harder for transfer students to get in so it’s all or nothing when you apply. It’s because they say its unfair that outside students are getting their majors before students in UT because many from easier schools (community college) and have higher GPA’S than students in UT since the classes are crazy hard. So that’s why they aren’t letting you guys apply for UGS anymore. This was directed because of internal transfer for business and engineering was getting hard. So the dean’s told us UGS students that it will be extremely hard for outside transfer to get into these majors specifically. It’s not fair but it is what it is.</p>