UT Austin Class of 2028 Official Thread

UT admitted over 1800 out of state students, enrollment total may be around 600-900. Still a very good 6-10% of total enrolled. Entire freshmen class is about 8000-9000 students.

The tiny percentage is due to way too many applicants. UT has almost 20000 OOS applicants (B to PhD), so that results in strong OOS competition. So the starting point is very high scores, then the student background, and it is as diversify as possible, or representing very unique culture and experiences.

UT (like TAMU, Texas Tech) is a federal and state government college, so all financial assistance by law is following FAFSA income rule. Merit based will be only from private parties (NMF, alumni). Departments may have merit but those are based on GPA after Freshmen year.

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I don’t know about Data Science, but we have had several friends apply to different engineering majors and they were given civil engineering instead of what they requested so that seems to be less competitive than other engineering majors
 at least over the past four years or so.

Hi, thanks very much for your insight. I just want to hear a little more about the idea of uploading awards, certificates, etc
 My daughter has that info on her expanded resume–is that sufficient, or should she upload documentation of those things? I just don’t want her application to feel cluttered/annoying/overkill to admissions and am wondering/concerned that uploading award and certificate documents could maybe somehow be off-putting? What do you think? Is mentioning these things in the expanded resume enough, or should documentation that authenticates be uploaded? Thanks again, really appreciate it.

If the documents are to validate what is on the resume, then yes. Go ahead upload them.
In recent years we see a lot of applicants (for colleges or jobs) having “internship” on their resumes. Recruiters would like to know if it is part time or full time, paid or non-paid experiences. They all know it is easy to find references to validate the claim of students but it is hard to differentiate real jobs versus volunteering. It won’t be overkilled as admissions handle these everyday.

For certifications, awards even patent filing, and many other hard-to-believe accomplishments. These are relevant if mentioned in essays or resume and these materials “help” admission remember the applicants during holistic review. It won’t be overwhelming as they don’t print them out for review.

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Okay, thank you, very helpful, appreciate it.

My son uploaded major awards!

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Thank you, glad I asked, appreciate it.

My son is applying for the priority deadline. He used the common app. When he goes to the UT Austin portal it says that they have not received his application fee. He paid this on the common app. He is a US citizen. Out of state applicant. What should he do? Also it says that there is a Calculus requirement for his major he is applying for. He is currently taking Calculus and will have th AP test at the end of the year. He is applying test optional. No ACT/SAT score. What should he do? Is his application ok?

Is anyone familiar with this Take the World by the Horns first semester abroad program? Is it similar to the Northeastern NUin program, an alternative start to UT?

Should the applicants select ‘yes’?

Only select yes if it’s something you want to do. admission is binding to that program if you decide to go to UT.

My son did apply and select that program because he was interested in the Danish Healthcare system option. I don’t want to think of him halfway around the world first semester though!

I was not aware of this program. Would you say it’s similar to NUin at Northeastern? Also, how do you handle housing when he’s back for 2nd semester?

Have he enjoyed the program? What is his major?

Thank you!

I have no idea and have no answer for any of your questions! He just applied in August and if he gets in, then we will figure the rest out. He is applying kinesiology bc he wants to go into PT.

Your questions are answered here

The fee issue is normal if your student just received EID.

If your student just applied, expect 1-2 weeks for MyStatus portal to get completely updated, if still not updated, ask a question via MyStatus portal.

Calculus requirement is fine. It is standard advising message.

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Can someone please let me know the deadline to upload the expanded resume?

Thank you

If you are referring freshmen application. Same as application deadline Dec 1st.

Thank you. I see that we have to complete an “Academic Course Work Form”. This appears only to allow us to add courses from grades 9-11 (because all courses need to have a grade recorded, and first-semester grades for Fall 23 are not yet available). Is this correct - we only add courses and grades for 9-11.

Yes 9-11 are used for admission consideration.

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Thank you!

Does anybody know how long the auto-admitted will take after submitting the application?

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