@tb2000 Nope. We were very surprised too. Other colleges with ranked film programs, like USC and FSU, require extra program-specific essays, extra writing samples (script), a creative portfolio list/resume and a video / short film sample. UT required none of that. My daughter though sent them a link to her short film submission (submitted elsewhere) and a copy of her creative portfolio list/resume, but I do not know if they will even review such extra submissions. She also had a producer she has worked for send them a letter of recommendation. The R-T-F program may review applications more holistically, but if they are not asking for or reviewing the type of creative submissions being viewed by other film programs, I am not exactly sure what they are basing their final decisions on…
@WWWard Hi. My son was accepted to RTF at Moody last year and was going to enroll except that he got accepted to NYU for Film and TV Production and being the #2 program (according to Hollywood Reporter 2015), would have been very difficult to turn down. Plus we were OOS for Texas and the cost different between the two programs was significant but not as bad as it could have been. We really appreciated that RTF does not require a portfolio. Creating all different portfolios for the different programs was definitely exhausting. He probably wrote at least 20 separate essays or short stories / screenplays. It literally doubled the amount of work involved. Also, the acceptance rate is NOT 10% at UT for OOS students. If I recall, it is actually closer to 30% for Moody. People often misunderstand what is meant by 10%. 10% of the freshman class is reserved for OOS and OOC. That means your daughter is only competing against other OOS applicants. I was confused by this too and receive the explanation from the admissions counselor who met with the Moody tour group. I also re-asked the question this year since my daughter is now applying to Moody for advertising, and received the same answer. I hope that helps. Good luck to your daughter!
@MamaDeer Moody doesn’t publish the numbers you are quoting above. However- 75 percent of all accepted students in UT are auto admit and another 15 percent are in state as required by law. the colleges inside UT who do publish their acceptances all list around70- 76 percent accepted from the auto-admit population with the remaining 25-30 coming from non auto which is the combination of in state as well as OOS and OOC. - if Moody is accepting 30 from strictly out of state they are the only college in UT doing that. It seems more likely that she meant 70 percent comes from the auto admit population. Moody does not do their own acceptances as some of the colleges do- it is done by the admissions team. I don’t think people misunderstand the 10 percent thing- the University of texas will send out 10 percent of their offers of admissions to people Outside the state of texas. that means less than 2000 people total ( last year they accepted around 17500 I believe). There is a separate acceptance process for your actual college and some colleges break down acceptance by major ( some do not- in other words some colleges you compete as a whole despite major and others you are competing against just those who applied for the same major). So overall UT can not make offers out of state to more than 10 percent of people they are accepting- despite the major. Therefore if Moody is taking 30 percent out of state another college has to take less than 10 percent and numbers published by other colleges simply do not support that. Most people in Texas believe the opposite actually that Moody has more than its fair share of Texas people.- Many non auto admit texans are already in at Moody for next fall. But again there are no published facts to support that moody takes 30 or
10 from out of state because Moody is the only college inside UT that does not publish this information.
@tb2000 I think maybe @MamaDeer means that of the total number of out of state student applicants who apply for the roughly 10% of Moody spots reserved for them, 1 out of 3 end up getting accepted. In other words there are about 3 applicants for each such spot. If I am wrong I apologize in advance.
@CorpusChristi Could be- i have never investigated that. I do know that acceptance rate over all outside of the auto is pretty competitive . apx 50000 applicants- 17500 ish accepted which is 13125 leaving apx 4375 non auto of the apx 32500 non auto applicants admitted to the overall university. That means overall anyone who is not auto has around a 15 percent chance of being in UT in any major. and the in state people have a stronger chance overall 90 percent must come from instate.- when you look at the difficulty of being accepted non auto admit- it’s almost like a crap shoot.
@tb2000 I think you misunderstood the point I was trying to make. We are talking about two different things. You are referring to a percentage of the freshman class and I am referring to the acceptance rate of OOS students. Acceptance/admission rate is different than the percent of the total class size (in state plus OOS). To say the OOS acceptance rate is 10% is not the same as saying 10% of the admitted class is OOS. I looked up my notes from the admissions meeting I attending in October to be more accurate. For 2016, the OOS acceptance/admission rate was 27% (I was off by 3 percentage points), for all of OOS state students who applied to Texas. That 27% of OOS students who applied and were admitted makes up about 10% of the total freshman class. These numbers are not just for Moody but an average across all undergraduate schools. At the Moody info session they did mention that most years they can admit more than 10% of the class from OOS, which is why their acceptance rate (which they don’t publish) may be higher than the university average, because some schools (the nursing school is the example they gave) tend to admit less than 10% of their freshman class from OOS. So the percent from college to college can vary as long as the overall freshman class at UT is no more than 10% from OOS. What I am saying is supported by the freshman student profile posted on admission’s website https://admissions.utexas.edu/explore/freshman-profile . The upper right shows the acceptance/admission rate and at the bottom is the student body breakdown. I hope that clears up what I am trying to say. Texas is a great school and I hope my daughter will be admitted, but to say that the OOS admission rate is 10% is putting it on par with Ivy League schools. I hope this makes more sense now.
Thanks, @MamaDeer Apparently, as seen above… there is disagreement about the odds. But I do like the thought of their acceptance rate being greater than 10%. And it does make sense that it would be… 10% is ultra-competitive.
I am hopeful and looking forward to this site being full of new acceptance announcements tomorrow evening! I really think there will be a January round tomorrow night. My daughter is already in, and I am wishing you all lots of luck!
@MamaDeer - got it- you are only comparing out of state with out of state- not overall admissions.- i guess in a way that makes sense since you basically compete with each other for those spots. Either way- best of luck to all of the applicants. historically speaking there should be a wave tomorrow ( there was a small wave this week last year). I don’t have a kid in process this year just watching the board for the future to update my understanding as things change so i am up to date when i do have a child applying
@NotSoPatient Thank you so much! I really hope that this community can grow to be more positive like you!
does anyone think there will be another wave of results tomorrow? I’m hoping CNS will release some decisions soon, I’ve only heard of one girl from my school getting in 
I applied for CNS and im oos. Have many people heard back for cns??
@bellabiology99 i heard back last week
My son is in state but school does not rank so is not an auto admit. He applied by Oct 15 and heard about admission to CNS Neuroscience Major (first choice) by mid December. We have not heard honors decision yet.
Hello ppl… can we expect a wave today ?
About what time do the decisions usually come out on Fridays?
Can’t be sure, but that’d be cool.
@anicole45 When we have heard on decisions (I have two going to UT), the decisions have come out some time after 4:30 PM CST. One was around then, and the other was later in the evening than that. Good luck!
So if we get our decision back today, it should be later this evening?
I’m really sh00c up about this rn