Are you guys considering dashboard as another tab? If so, I have six tabs; dashboard, admission, housing, financial, international and honors. I did not apply for financial aid, guess that’s why I have financial aid tab and since I’m an international student I have an additional tab although I’ve turned in my financial resources document ages ago.
I’ve got Dashboard, Admission, Housing, Financial Aid, Honors, Appeals (Submitted a Late Appeal that was approved)
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@lilligeen me too!!
@baedrillaurd, if I may ask, was your application rejected? If so, what did UT say about it?
No, I have not been rejected. My application is in review and says the following :
Your application for admission is in review.
We have all the items we need to make your admission decision. As soon as your decision is made, it will be posted on this page and you’ll be notified by mail.
but if you’re referring to the appeal, it was approved and says the following:
Your Late appeal for your Fall 2017 Freshman application has been approved.
Approval of your appeal doesn’t affect your admission decision. Please visit the Admission tab for information about the current status of your admission application and for updates as they become available.
@TexasMom2017 Sorry, my wife is a fashion designer and it’s the first example I thought of. Fashion design for girls meaning a significant portion of teen girls are interested in fashion design. Then they get to college and find out that it takes more than keeping up with trends, being able to accessorize and sketching your creations. 95% of that career is very technical and advanced math skills are imperative to being successful. You have to deal with production, plotting and dealing with overseas factories to complete your order and follow the specs you created. Watching Project Runway and subscribing to Vogue isn’t enough.
I think Computer related fields are like that for teen boys these days. They build computers and upgrade them constantly to run video games and applications and think that this is a viable career that will earn a good salary. When they get to college, they find out it’s not quite what they thought it was. It’s actually really difficult, hence the salary range for the career. I think my son falls in this category with his plan. When your hobby turns into your career, it isn’t as fun anymore.
Perhaps a better example is professional athletics. Just because you are a wiz on Madden doesn’t mean that you are ready to be an Offensive Coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys or ready to suit up as a QB.
@carachel2 That’s just what my cousin said. I’m sure that the courses were hard, but she didn’t feel that they were setting her up to fail like the stories we’ve heard about Cockrell’s courseload. But, it’s all hearsay and conjecture really.
@spankytoes --how long ago did she attend the program?
@spankytoes Thanks for the explanation - I had no idea - very interesting! And now your comment makes sense, and I agree. My son is a UT CS major and while he wouldn’t change his decision, it’s a lot more of a slog (esp. in first 2 years) than he had expected, in his case with a lot of OS fundamentals that he found tedious (and yet a great deal of work). Not quite as fun as sitting around making up games, ha ha.
@spankytoes Thanks for the clarification. It makes sense now 
@spankytoes, very well said. Back in the 90s I did my undergrad in Acctg and then decided Acctg was not for me. Instead went back to grad school to get a masters in CIS (aka MIS). That was the best career decision I’d ever made.
@TexasMom2017, while CS may not be for everyone CIS/MIS could be an interesting major to consider…
@carachel2 She graduated in 2012. She’s worked in Dallas, then Lubbock and now back to Dallas as she gets opportunities. She majored in Civil Engineering, which may be a different layout than other engineering courses.
@TexasMom2017 Glad that got cleared up. I re-read my post and thought “Ouch, that could be considered sexist without context”.
A scan thru this thread, and especially when compared to similar threads at other top universities, should be a cause for alarm to UTexas admissions. But, as this practice and methodology related to admissions and the sporadic “waves” of admission decisions over an extended period of time seems to have been their preferred way for many years, I guess that they will not be looking to change things.
My daughter is a current Moody R-T-F OOS applicant who applied many months ago. She remains in review and has basically stopped checking her portal. It has become all too frustrating to her. Thankfully, she has already been admitted to other top-25 film programs, so the pressure is not as great as it once seemed to gain admission to UTexas for such.
In some ways, I do not even understand the UTexas methodology for selecting film school or creative major applicants. While UTexas is ranked as a top-25 film school program, they seem to be the only one that does not actually admit their own applicants via a thorough analysis by the R-T-F faculty themselves. Every other film school that my daughter applied to insisted on a creative portfolio and numerous extra submissions demonstrating her fit or readiness for such a school. UTexas seems like the lone exception. More power to them if they end up producing quality film school graduates and still have a solid means to teach such students… but why the apparent disconnect? Why does the film school have no say in who they end up teaching?
Looking at the R-T-F admission webpage itself, they make it clear… “All freshmen, students transferring from other colleges or universities (external transfers), and international student admissions are handled solely by the University of Texas Office of Admissions. The Department of Radio-Television-Film does not review admission applications nor have any input into final decisions. It is not necessary to submit a portfolio of your creative work in order to be admitted to the Department.”
That admission philosophy is 180 degrees different from how film schools like USC and FSU handle admissions. In the case of those other top-25 film programs, you basically have to be accepted twice… once by the university in general and again by a faculty committee within the film school itself. Anyhow, I found this UTexas way to be very strange. Of course, I also find the entire ways and means of UTexas admission strange as well. Three years ago, my older daughter applied to 17 schools. None followed the path of UTexas. This year, my younger daughter’s other 14 schools that she has applied to also do not handle admissions this way. Maybe it is a Texas only thing… or only a Texas public university thing.
But the angst & anxiety exhibited within this lengthy thread seems to echo such thoughts… that a better system may be in order.
Oh well. As a parent, I am simply glad that I will finally be done with the college admissions process by April 1st. Good luck to all those still waiting for a positive admission decision from UTexas. May you hear in the next “wave”… whenever that may come.
All of you moms and dads here truly want their children to receive the best quality education and therefore discuss about admissions on college threads to seek whatever positivity you can find to ease yours and children’s anxiety over getting into their lifelong dream schools. It truly leaves me speechless.
So, shoutout to all of you wonderful parents! Best of luck to everyone of your sons and daughters! May the next ‘wave’ be in your favour. Fingers crossed. 
@WWWard - They may do things their own way but they are killing it in ranks across their programs so I highly doubt they believe that any changes are in order to their process. They tell you up front - Decisions are out by March 1. Some lucky people hear sooner but they never promise that except in certain honors programs. They have pretty high Success in their R-T -F so they clearly know what they are doing even if they don’t do selections like other schools- They also do not have architecture kids give a portfolio and they are a top 10 arch school in the country too… My kid had to wait until last “wave” last year and I expect my other kid will have to wait for that next year. Either way- it is a totally amazing school and honestly, once accepted you forget the angst during the process.( though I know it’s easier said than done) Many colleges do not release prior to their set date, UT just sends some out early but their date is March 1. if you keep that in mind it isn’t such a strange process.
I agree with @tb2000 . I think people are used to the way it “used to be” when more students found out much earlier. Because of the volume of applications and their holistic approach, we just have to patiently accept most will just hear by March 1 and not much sooner. We already know the private school we applied to does not release until end of March, but everyone knows they mean it so I think that’s the difference.
Also, I am hearing that numerous schools had a record number of applications so obviously that is going to delay the process. I know there are more students overall but I wonder how much of that increase is from students that are applying to so many different schools. I was a little surprised so many apply to so many schools. I’m not saying you shouldn’t apply to a moderate number of schools but I don’t think as many used to do that so all have to consider that adds to the load of the admissions system at all schools.
@tb2000 My niece is at UT in architecture school right now and she did have to submit a portfolio of her work for admission.