Normally no wave on the Thanksgiving week. Admitted to CNS Biology last week.
I thought I was non-auto since my high school didn’t rank but I found out UT treated me as auto based on its own calculation.
I did receive a email last week about an informal interview, particularly about several iOS apps I mentioned in my essay I created for my family business. I replied email last week confirming the interview date but haven’t received their confirmation yet. So pretty much sure no one work there during Thanksgiving week.
I applied Dean scholar only cause that one just involve submitting AP scores and a short essay. I hope they won’t bounce me to CS within CNS although I took AP CS class last year. But who knows the holistic review nowadays?
10/12/20, and everything (scores, transcript, rec letters) completed on 10/16/20. Our HS has rec letter form at the beginning of the semester with a September due date so UT probably received the rec letters before I applied. I have to contact them on 10/12/20 to match my EID with the rec letter.
For fall 2020 applicants, decisions were released on the following dates:
November 22, 2019 was the first release of Major decisions for a very small handful of top 6% Engineering, Business, and other majors.*
Thursday, December 5 saw another small release.*
Friday, December 13 experienced the first “large” wave of favorable admissions decisions*
January 10 to 17 saw smaller batches of releases*
The major final wave of favorable decisions went out Tuesday, January 21, 2020, the first time in recent memory the main acceptance batch didn’t go out on a Friday*
Congrats! My daughter is in CBHP at McCombs and loves it. Don’t be surprised if the Honors review stays pending for awhile, or be pleasantly surprised if she is contacted for an interview soon. My daughter didn’t hear anything about her Honors app until President’s weekend, even though she was accepted in the first OOS batch in 2018. It all worked out and she’s loving it for the most part. Classes this semester (and it looks like next) will still be online which is a bummer considering they’re so small, but she’s managed it fairly well and is just have to be in ATX.
@rbc2018, yes! I’m with you! I can’t even figure out which bookmarked page I’m reading and forget scrolling to the top to figure it out. I sure hope my son gets into his last school quickly so I can leave college confidential forever. This is a horrible platform now. Don’t they know that most of us are old parents who don’t like change anyway? Definitely not user friendly. I spend way too much time on here anyway; it will be good for me to give it up.
@ChillyCow Exactly! I first tried on my phone and was bombarded with so many popups I couldn’t navigate to anything or get to the end of a thread to see the most recent stuff. I’m also on my last kid (of 3), so this will probably be the kiss of death for CC for me. I understand monetizing, but who in the world thought this was a better design, good grief.
@rbc2018, You aren’t kidding! I got a notification in my email on my phone about your message. When I clicked to see the discussion from my phone, it dumped me several days back into the discussions. Then I scrolled down and your message wasn’t even showing up. It literally took me 5 minutes (I timed it) to find your message from my laptop. This makes me so sad. I guess I will find a new hobby.
@bestday738 They don’t generally release any stats that I’m aware of until next year. They only recently released info for Class of 2024.
Good luck to your daughter. Out of curiosity, do you know if the UGA applicant pool for in state was significantly higher than in the past. Are you in state Texas or OOS? I’ve been hearing that for in state schools applications are significantly higher and for OOS they are way lower, due to the fact that students want to stay closer to home and costs. My hs senior son nixed UT for various reasons - but mainly better program for what he wanted elsewhere. My daughter however loves it! We don’t live in Texas.
Sorry, I don’t know anything about UGA other than what I’ve seen on the EA thread. The applicant pool was higher and for EA, they took around 8,000 of 20,000. I think it looks like a mixture of in state and OOS kids who were deferred. Hard to make sense of several who have as good or better stats as my daughter (she’s College of Liberal Arts, maybe that’s it). She applied to UGA because of Covid- she took a virtual tour and based on research thought it was a good safety school (like Texas A&M, but she’s just not an Aggie). We are in Texas. UT is her first choice- but she’s not auto-admit, so we wait and hope that one of the 9 schools she applied to (Thanks, Covid and the less than interested counseling staff at her high school.) will be perfect for her. Best of luck to your daughter as well. I went to Texas and loved it!
@bestday738
That’s funny she thought UGA was a safety school, because generally speaking it is not a safety for anyone, although I think I recall from my daughters year that it is better to apply there for EA because it’s straight numbers and for RD they do it holistically and look at your entire app, but maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know what they (UGA) did for Covid, but if she’s looking for a school that handled Covid well, UT is not that.
Their handling of Covid is a complete joke. I know President Hartzell’s hands are tied by the legislature which is a shame and kids can get tests when they want, but most kids don’t go regularly, no one is enforcing the gathering limits, parties are happening all the time inside, outside, wherever, and it’s rampant. My daughter so far has survived not getting it, unless she got it on the plane home. She had her own row so hopefully she is in the clear. She just had another test after isolating at home for the past week.
Scary times and hopefully by the time our kids start school next fall, things will be a lot better. I think this is another reason my son took UT off his list. Once they get Covid under control and my daughter can go back to normal classes there, I know she will be even more happy. I can’t say enough about the academics and her experience. Although she works way too hard it seems.
One of my HS classmates got accepted in Design. The other five are still waiting. Most Fine Arts acceptance took longer because of interview and portfolio requirements. My classmate arranged all portfolio way back in August and for Design the process is simpler than Art, Theatre, Dance and Music. Most interview or portfolio review completed around January and February.
Thank you! I’m super nervous and got discouraged when I didn’t hear from McCombs in this first super early round. I feel like I worked really hard and I’m happy with what I gave the college nonetheless! I hope to be apart of the Canfield BHP program some day and will maybe get to meet your daughter!! Can I ask what her stats were?
