Housing at TAMU is freshman oriented and the quads for Engineering are all pretty much the same. Honors are in specific halls as well. There is a deposit but it can be withdrawn and refunded if cx by the specified date. If UT is where you want to be if wait.
It seems that those on this site don’t want to recognize that over the last 10 years the UT admissions process has been subjected to more legal scrutiny than any other college in the US. Fisher v. University of Texas started around 2008 and went to the Supreme Court with a decision in 2013. The case went back to the lower courts only to return to the Supreme Court in 2015 (called Fisher II). Fisher II was widely thought to be the case that the Supreme Court might strike down affirmative action in college admissions nationwide. UT won by a narrow majority 4-3 in 2016. Affirmative action policies thus remain and UT continues to include diversity considerations of race, ethnicity, gender, economic status, etc. in its holistic review.
UT could quickly fill all of its slots with high SAT/ACT/AP score kids from wealthy school districts by merely using a strict numerical evaluation. It takes much more time to achieve a high quality population that is also diverse among a number of factors. And there is no doubt, the lawyers are looking over UTs shoulders every year. It takes much more care to do this process in a manner that can hold off the lawyers. I personally believe UT picks many of its diversity candidates and special candidates early and then backfills later based on the test score/rank numbers. I admit I have no knowledge of this one way or the other.
However, when all those on this site wonder why when there are two excellent candidates with nearly identical stellar numbers and one gets a major with the early waves (Nov / Dec) and one gets a major on Feb 1, I immediately assume there is some other factor . For example, give me two candidates with identical stellar test scores, etc. one from an economically disadvantaged crappy school in a crappy school district and another from an excellent high achieving school, the kid that can rise up out of the poverty and get a 35 ACT, 5s on all APs, etc. stands out to me more than the other kid. Rightly or wrongly, I suspect that is what is happening in the early waves, some other factors are in play such as diversity, outstanding achievements in their field, etc.
I have an auto-admit kid with a high test score and a high class rank from a very competitive school. He has ECs, sports teams and community service but frankly nothing that says “wow” on a national level. I expect him to get his major Feb. 1 but have no expectation to hear early. He is special to me and an outstanding student in his school, but I remember that he is just another one of the very large crowd of high test scores, high class rank kids UT gets applications from. I applaud those that have stood out from the crowd and get an early decision and I do not fault UT for making such identifications.
I appreciate your opinion @austexlonghorn, but the process for admissions is crazy. There is no transparency with UT, and we are all left guessing. They were disingenuous about the last wave (which is wrong), and I have been told the waves are often random, and have nothing to do with their desire for certain students (told this by UT Admissions). I don’t believe this, but as you stated, I do understand UT wanting to have a rich and diverse class, and letting those students know first. However, be transparent about it, and don’t be ‘cloak and dagger’ about admissions. The UT admissions process creates unnecessary anxiety to an already high anxiety filled time for families.
I agree @bevogal that there is no transparency. Frankly, I think they have a “closed ranks” mentality that actually encourages more lawsuits. I also flatly don’t believe the early waves have nothing to do with a desire for certain students. No doubt some of the decisions may have nothing to do with this (some of the honors programs release decisions early, like the Business school), but I believe the rest are impacted.
As to yesterday, I have seen no evidence of a “wave” so I don’t think we have been mislead on that one. One person on this site who predicted a Friday wave appears to the be only person who has posted on this site that they were admitted Friday. With the new Feb 1 deadline, I put my money on the majority of decisions being released Jan 26th.
@ckmyd234 a bunch of people on reddit received their decisions too.
It’s very disheartening to see so many OOS and international applicants be accepted into computer science, specifically. No hate to y’all, I just wish that UT comp sci would accept more in-state applicants in these early waves. I’ve only heard of/seen very few. Also, I’ve heard computer science only admits around 500 people and only about 300 actually accept, do any of y’all know if that’s true?
I really hope I don’t get a notice on Feb 1st saying I’ve been deferred. I honestly don’t think I could handle it lol. Good luck to y’all.
Can some one chance me, I’m started to get nervous since I haven’t heard back yet.
Electrical Engineering major
In state auto admit rank 98/1560 in a very competitive school
GPA 4.2307 weighted (regular course 4.0, preap is 4.5 and AP is a 5.0)
1510 sat, 760 physics sat, 780 math2 sat
Good E.C with leadership roles but not related to major
11 AP courses
National merrit commended & AP scholar with distinction
My grades showed a huge improvement as I started ranked 250 and jumped up a lot
My essays were decent, I think I highlighted lots of good things but I’m not a strong writer by any means.
My biggest complaint about UT’s admission process are the “waves”. I have no problem with how they choose who to admit. All the have to do is divide all the priority applications into “yes” or "no"piles and then let everyone know on a specific date. My son was accepted to another university that published the exact date the decisions would come out. That process was so much nicer than this crazy stuff. All that these waves do is add more stress to these already stressed out students.
My daughter is waiting for the major she wants, first choice -computer science, second -ECE. For the scholarship, you need to look careful. I know most of schools required student maintain certain GPA. When my son got accepted into engineering honor, he also got scholarship, 20k(5k per year). He lost his scholarship one year later because of his gpa. Your gps need to keep above 3.5
@Shayp25 Don’t worry! Your stats are great, electrical engineering is just really behind I think, I’ve only known of one person that has gotten in and it’s the biggest program for engineering too.
does anyone know anyone who has gotten in as an advertising major yet?
Does anyone know anyone who has gotten into undergraduate studies? If so , what are their stats?
Is there anyone who applied to UT as an entry-level nutrition major in the CNS? Any information on the competitiveness and popularity of the program?
has anyone gotten into the Moody college as a communication science and disorder major?? I applied around late September and I still haven’t heard back
@collegegals - my daughter has been accepted into communications sciences & disorders in the moody college of communications. She applied in August, was an auto admit so got accepted in October and received her major in the first wave in November. Ditto for her twin except her twin applied to CNS. As for @austexlonghorn ‘s theory - I don’t know. My kids are in state, don’t add to diversity in any category and neither applied to honors.
Can anybody tell me when to expect the next “Big” waves of UT Austin? I’m OOS
I would like housing advice for my son. He was accepted to CS but probably won’t get into Turing honors so no honors quad. Are there other dorms that the techy enigineery type students gravitate to? He is on the quieter side.
Has anyone gotten into McCombs from OOS yet? Do you think those decisions will release in the next wave if they’re priority decisions?
At this point, if you haven’t heard from admissions, should you send your 1st-semester grades along with a letter of continued interest? Thanks in advance!
When did you apply to UT?
Your stats are similar to our son’s (in-state auto admit, applied by mid October that year ) who was admitted into the fall 2016 biomedical engineering program. I cannot find this in my email history, but believe he received confirmation of BME choice of major in December of January. He was denied engineering honors on March 1.
He was deferred and then rejected (perhaps because he chose not to supplement his application) at Georgia Tech for BME.
Ultimately went to Tulane with Deans’ Scholarship.