does anyone know how to withdraw your application? most schools have a place to click “withdraw” but I don’t see one on my status.
Just to add some perspective, my son and I are here in California where the Univ of California and Cal State system have a regular application deadline of Nov 30 and won’t make decisions until March 1 or as late as April 1!!! He submitted his application in Oct and will be waiting over 5 months. He is also waiting for UT Austin and we never noticed any status change and have been checking his account regularly. Hang in there, and good luck to everyone!
@HopefulAg22 I believe that you have to withdraw it directly from the applytexas website. I’m considering doing the same. If I don’t hear a yes or no by Feb 1st, I will do that and write quite the nasty email.
@HopefulAg22 From what I know you cannot do it through Apply Texas as it says on the Apply Texas site you cannot delete applications or essays. I would call UT
@Bocker99 thank you! I looked on apply texas and it says to contact the school so I will just email them to withdraw. I completely agree, grew less and less fond of this school as they continue to make it seem as if you’re just another UID. I’d much rather want someone who’s dream is UT to get in over me.
So is there gonna be a big wave this friday?
@BayAreaMom15 I have no problem with a school waiting until the end of March or even April 1 to let kids know. My older son had a few of those schools when he applied and didn’t hear back from his last school until the very end of March. The difference is is that those schools were upfront and honest about release dates. UT has promised one thing and may not deliver. Also, I totally understand if they are overwhelmed with too many priority applications but the least they could have done is read all of those first before reading any of the regular applications. Poorly run process in my opinion.
@Mom2Son the admissions twitter handle is bealonghorn!!
No denials till march 1= another month of “have ou heard back yet?” Nope not yet 
So, they will not give rejections to any of the priority applicants by or on Feb. 1? So if you are deferred, you can assume it is a no (if you applied priority)?
I would rather receive the rejection and move on…Ugh!
MODERATOR’S NOTE:
That’s because links to reddit/FB/twitter, etc are not allowed per Terms of Service. @Kd6410
We make it a policy at our house to assume a deferral, particularly this late (Feb/March) in the game is a polite rejection.
However, a “deferral” from UT could put you in the pot for alternative admissions options. So if you are willing to go that route, you might as well hang on and see what happens.
Just took a look at UT’s Common Data Set (for the first time, lol)…weirdly they say they waitlist but said 0 kids were placed on a waitlist. Also they mark Academic GPA as a “Not Considered” criteria for admission (What’s up with that?)
@labegg I wonder if that Common Date Set reflects auto admits…otherwise, makes no sense
@labegg GPA isn’t considered… They only use class rank and plug that into their formulas. They only use GPA to determine class rank for non ranking schools. It actually makes sense because schools all figure out GPAs different ways so impossible to compare.
@Mills6
Is this formula for non-ranked schools published anywhere? I’d love to see how they factor in GPA
UT doesn’t waitlist. They accept, deny, PACE, or CAP.
So if you want to go to UT Austin…move to an easy, non-competitive school district? Some high schools are apples to oranges. The same kid could be in 35th percentile at one school; and be valedictorian at another, less-competitive high school. Class Rank is a terrible indicator.
They do not publish the algorithm for calculating class rank for non-ranking schools.
There are lots of threads on the merits of using class ranking as a differentiator (or as THE differentiator) in college admissions. In my limited experience, this is unique to Texas public universities, though I’m sure other systems use it as well.
Part of the argument in favor of using class rank is that the rank is in part a result of the resources and opportunities available at each school. To use your example, if you take the valedictorian at the less competitive school and put him in the more competitive school, the additional resources and competition at the competitive school could drive him/her to do much better than 35th percentile, and perhaps to be valedictorian.
I understand the theory, but it stills seems strange to me to not consider GPA when it is so central to the way our children’s success is measured throughout their school careers.
I just called the UT admissions office asking when the priority decisions would come out and they said latest by February 1st. They also said that the notification yesterday was an error. I don’t know whether I should believe that or not but just thought I’d let you all know.