Any chemistry majors been accepted yet?
Could you chance my S for admission into UT…
Gender/Race: Male/White
Major: Liberal Arts (International Relations & Global Studies)
Class Rank: 130/1092 (11.9%) (Highly competitive, public school)
Act: 30 (30 English, 32, Math, 34 Reading, 25 Science)
Extracurriculars:
-3 year varsity letterman in baseball and basketball (2 year captain in one and 3 in the other)
-National Honor Society Member
-Texas Boys State Attendee
Work Experience: 2 total years of work experience throughout HS
Volunteer Experience: 55 total hours
AP Classes: 7 total
Dual Credit: 2 years of English, 1 year of US History
Any comment is appreciated! Thanks for your help!
@Glee My son’s housing page says the same as yours. He is non-auto and has not been accepted yet. It would be great if this was a good sign.
@austingal is your son in-state? And I do hope so too. Neva mind, I read somewhere else…he is 
@just_nag Clicked on every possible link, but none lead to that info or those statements. But my daughter is an OOS Moody applicant still in Review. The Housing link only appeared on Friday.
@USUG21 Decisions for international freshmen would be released in early March.
Contacted the admission office via email.
@WWWard - Do you see the 2 links below? If you click the first one, where does that take you?
Welcome to the UT Austin Housing Portal.
Please click the link that corresponds to your individual housing needs:
Fall 2017 / Spring 2018 on campus - Apply for Fall 2017 / Spring 2018 on campus housing application
UT Apartments Application - Apply for the UT Apartments
@just_nag Yes. I see now what you mean. I was referring to not initially seeing… “Welcome Longhorns” and “Student Home”, my name and next to “Classification” it says “First Time Freshman” (What @glee posted) But when I click on Fall 2017, it does eventually take me to that same info page.
My daughter has applied to 15 total schools, Three years ago, my older daughter applied to 17. UT is the only college with this strange methodology of implied admissions (confusing signals), gradually and incrementally accepting applicants in waves over an extended period of time… and all without any apparent rime or reason related to stats, application completion date, major, etc. While my daughter is a clear fan of UT’s RTF program… I am clearly not a fan of UT’s approach to admissions and the layout and info conveyed online to applicants. Simply unique, strange and un-necessarily stressful on applicants. At least that’s my opinion.
@WWWard Agree with you 100%
@WWWard I absolutely agree. It’s unnecessarily stressful for really qualified applicants who are left to wonder month after month, wave after wave, why they didn’t make the cut. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth as a parent.
Also, kudos to your daughter for applying to so many schools. My son only applied to a handful, making the stress over UT that more unbearable.
@glee Apparently it means nothing.
And that is clearly the problem. UT Admissions & Housing could easily word things differently and avoid the false implications and confusion.
When this admissions cycle is over, there are a handful of colleges and universities, UT among them, that should perform some self-analysis and self-evaluation… looking at these threads in the process… and then endeavor to take a good hard look at how colleges like Stanford, Yale and USC handle the admissions process… especially the communication of info to applicants via email and the online admissions portal. They may think that things are naturally bigger and better in Texas, but when it comes to this admissions process, UT could improve markedly. I know that some will say - well this is how it has always been done. Maybe true… but they could do it all much better.
As a parent, I am just glad that I will finally be done with college admissions by April 1st. Ugh!
@austingal Three years ago, we watched as my older daughter was eventually rejected by 12 out of 17. We had read many articles talking about the plight of the overqualified white female applicants these days and allowed her to apply to that many out of an abundance of caution. She had been a 3.97 uw GPA student with strong ECs and test scores in the 97th-98th percentile… and still 12 colleges rejected her. Such is life when there are way too many such applicants applying to all of the same elite schools. So my younger daughter mixed up the list some. Her GPA is slightly better… her rank is better… her ECs are really strong… and I think that her essays are really good. But she too is in that 97th-98th percentile in terms of test scores. Time will tell what various colleges deem to be important. But this waiting game makes the process hard to cope with…
Good luck to your son.
@WWWard- thank you. Good luck to your daughter, as well.
While the UT process may be frustrating simply because some hear earlier than others, ALL will hear earlier than the release dates of MANY other schools (March 1 vs. March 31). Additionally, to UT’s credit, it does not adhere to the nonsense of only admitting students who commit (either directly or indirectly) to enroll and it is commendable. To the Vandy’s, Notre Dames and numerous others who will only admit when they know with certainty that the student will enroll: your behavior is self-serving and not in the interests of students. I m not talking simply about binding, I am talking about deferring/waitlisting all qualified applicants who don’t bind and then notifying them that interest is now a determining factor for admission. It is their attempt to artificially support high yield numbers and thus artificially increase their rankings. Thanks for letting me vent CC:) Hang in there - the college application process is a marathon, not a sprint.
@funMom7753 your S sounds like a great candidate for UT, and I’ll bet he’ll flourish wherever he ends up. He has leadership, academics, Boys State, athletics – well rounded and still a high class rank. (I know how hard it is at my kids’ TX public school for a student athlete to end up at the top of the class bc athletics classes do not offer quality points to help class rank. Your son impresses me!)
@funMom7753 , I didn’t see GPA or if your S is in-state TX or not. Assuming he is in state and has W GPA above 4.0 I would say he has decent chance. My LHS had similar stats and got into COLA. COLA is certainly easier to get into then most of the other UT colleges. Good luck. May not see his acceptance til Feb/Mar though.
Admitted to Cockrill School of Engineering. Received an email on Friday Jan 20th stating “Within the last 24 hours, we sent you important information in MyStatus. Please log in to review what’s posted there.”
Excited!
For those that have not heard yet, don’t sweat it too much. I’m convinced that Russian Hackers could NOT find the rationale for when decisions are released.
Any Chemistry majors out there??