UT Austin 2011/12 Transfer Guide

<p>^ No one receives housing contracts until July…</p>

<p>Does every transfer student that applies for housing gets a housing contract? and if not what is the percentage of people that receive a contract? Also how are this transfer students selected?</p>

<p>Has anyone who recently sent in their transcripts heard yet?
Just wondering if I should expect a quick response or have to wait until mid June or something like that</p>

<p>I applied to COLA btw</p>

<p>TexasG: Right here on the same page with ya. Im really curious as to how long the turnover is… They received my final transcript on May 11th. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated, this wait is KILLER!</p>

<p>^^^same</p>

<p>texaslax, texasg, does your status page say that they’re currently reviewing your application?</p>

<p>Yep. We sound so impatient lol</p>

<p>Hi people!
I want to transfer in spring 2012.(:
1)Current College: A local CC in my town
2) Current GPA: 2.9
3) Probable total GPA after Summer Semester (in July): 3.31
4) First Choice Major/College: Nursing
5) Second Choice Major/College: Undeclared
6) Courses completed: -Total-29- 44 by the end of july
7)Extracurricular Activities/Recommendations/Essays: Colorguard, ROTC, Longhorn pride, Fashion club, youth officer in my church, texas scholar, did some volunteering, plan to do more in the summer. working on my essays, recommendations- i dont know yet.
8) Anything else useful:I graduated early (in 3 yrs ,instead of 4)…
(: please let me know anything i can do to enhance it and my chances (:
oh yeah im turning in my app in august…super late i know. but i wanted to bump my gpa.</p>

<p>My final transcript has just been produced at a 3.1 cumulative GPA. I won’t get in to the college of communication, my first choice. All I can do is wait to see if I’m accepted to COLA. I can’t stand waiting!! Does anyone know how long it took their transcript to be received? I’m transferring from St. Edward’s (right downtown) so… it shouldn’t take more than a day right? :)</p>

<p>@virmir Shouldn’t take more than 3 days if your in the area =D</p>

<p>@jenny You might have a chance if you have very impressive essays and possibly recommendations. If i got in with a 3.36, you can definitely get in too =D</p>

<p>It says ut received my transcript on 5/17. And the status is still ’ we need your 30 hours’ but I bet that will change soon because i currently have 38. I will post when I hear my decision. Good luck to all!</p>

<p>@babycakin thanks that helped big time</p>

<p>anyone in pre-nursing or nursing?</p>

<p>Is applying in August gonna look bad? I have a 3.4 and i’m going to apply for COLA. I was gonna take summer classes to raise my GPA, should i just apply with a 3.4 now?</p>

<p>Jennylove- </p>

<p>I am an accepted pre-nursing transfer for fall 2011. I have not seen any other nursing transfer students for this fall on here. In the past years on this bored, there has only been a handful that I have seen. I am really surprised because at my cc there is A LOT of students taking pre-reqs for nursing school. Good luck with the transfer process and if you have any questions feel free to ask.</p>

<p>Currently a freshman, will start 2nd year in fall. Actually trying to apply after spring 2012</p>

<p>1) Current College: UT Arlington
2) Current GPA: 3.89
3) Probable total GPA after Spring Semester (by Spring 2012): 3.9+
4) First Choice Major/College: Finance
5) Second Choice Major/College: Business Administration
6) Courses completed: Around 67 by Spring 2012
7)Extracurricular Activities: H.S. (they care about stuffs in h.s.?? ): Peer mentoring leading program, 4 clubs (officer in one club), National honor society, library aide,
College: Medical Club, alpha honor society, national collegiate honor society, will join some more next year
Volunteering: Retirement Home, a lot others, and probably UT SW hospital this summer
Work: Restaurant cashier
Recommendations: Will get some
Essays: will do them, i have one more year…
8) Anything else useful: TX resident.</p>

<p>1) Current College: A local CC in my town
2) Current GPA: 3.735
3) Probable total GPA after Spring Semester (in May): 3.8
4) First Choice Major/College: Biology, particularly Evolutionary Biology.
5) Second Choice Major/College: Eh…
6) Courses completed: 34 Hours now, 59 by the time of transfer, which I’ll hopefully be able to go over January 2012.
7)Extracurricular Activities/Recommendations/Essays: Firstly, I’m helping my professor conduct research over the summer (at my CC), into the fall semester, which I hope to be a major plus, as I’m definitely considering going into research. Secondly, I’ve always been a good writer, so not worried about essays at all.
8) Extra Stuff: I work part-time to help pay for college… but who doesn’t? Texas resident as well.</p>

<p>1) Current College: A local CC in my town
2) Current GPA: 3.443
3) First Choice Major/College: Economics/COLA.
5) Second Choice Major/College: UGS
6) Courses completed: 32 Hours
7)Extracurricular Activities/Recommendations/Essays: lots of volunteering for my church. Thanksgiving dinners for poor and delivering present on Christmas eve etc. Two good letters of recommendation and two good essays.
*</p>

<p>UT just received my final transcript on Thursday. I will have a 3.182 transferable GPA and I applied to Undergraduate Studies first and COLA-Undeclared 2nd. I got a C in Biology and that dropped my GPA down an entire .1 point than if I would’ve gotten a B. At first I was really worried, but now I figured whatever happens is meant and there’s nothing I can do about it anymore. I’m glad I was able to wait for the 30 hours though because I was able to learn more about their admission process and change the majors I applied to 3 times through the last 4 months. At first I applied to Business and Psychology and I probably would have had zero chance now if I followed through with that.</p>

<p>Anyways here was my other stuff:
Extracurricular Activities: football/baseball player in high school, college baseball player freshmen year, student government, student leadership, baseball coach for local little league.
3 Recommendations: My high school math teacher/baseball coach, my college professor, and my boss.
Essays: Wrote about coaching baseball for A. Wrote about loud car stereo music for E. My 2nd essay is no where near what it should’ve been and that will lessen my chances even more.
Anything else useful: 300+ community service hours, African-American male, piano player with a youtube channel, Texas resident, First-gen college student. </p>

<p>I’ll let you guys know what happens with me.</p>

<p>About how long does it take from UT saying they received everything to when you receive the final decision? My application status currently says “We’ve received all the items needed to review your application for admission.” Got all my stuff in by the 20th.</p>

<p>Okay I am planning to transfer to UT in the spring semester of 2012. But I kinda have a bad past with grades. Like really bad probably like 1.0. I started all over at CC and have 3.7. I want to get into the college of liberal arts. Will they compute my GPA over all the grades or just take my recent GPA. I have started all over by taking the same classes over again to achieve a better grade. Please please please please help me!</p>

<p>Does anyone know how long UT takes to respond to transfer students? I got all my items in by May 20th. Does it take anywhere from a couple weeks to a month? </p>

<p>3.55 GPA
30+Hours
COLA</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>