Well that’s awkward. Logged in with my dad’s account by accident. Those two posts above are from me. Sorry. Didn’t even know he had an account.
The admissions office is still operating normal business hours during Spring Break per their twitter page.
Edit: Regardless, I agree that nothing will be released this week anyways.
Also, going to ACC does not give an inherent advantage to transfer applicants in comparison to other Texas colleges.
Of UT’s 2,245 enrolled transfers in 2017, 300 were from ACC (and 300 out of 711 Texas junior college transfers). The ACC to UT number has stayed constant as the number of total UT enrolled transfers dropped to 1,581 last year.
https://utexas.app.box.com/v/CDS2017
https://utexas.app.box.com/v/CDS2018
Also, the admin offices may be “open,” but UT essentially shuts down during spring break due to staff vacations.
You bring up a good point, but correlation does not mean causation.
I think you’ve tunnel visioned on one statistic.
I believe that there would be more applicants from ACC than say, applicants from Wharton County Junior College. More applicants means more possible chances of acceptances, hence the high number of acceptances from ACC than other community colleges.
A lot of those applicants from ACC might be attending the PACE program. The PACE program is essentially a program that gives automatic transfer admission to students who complete a set of requirements.
https://admissions.utexas.edu/enroll/pace/requirements
Also, the GPA from a 4 year university will not mean less than a GPA from a 2 year college according to a former admissions counselor.
This doesn’t dispel the notion that ACC students have an advantage since it’s between 4 year and 2 year colleges, but I thought it would be nice to include for anyone curious.
PACE students do not technically “transfer” because they are already enrolled at UT part-time. Those numbers are on page 3 of the common data set. You’ll see it correlates with the reported PACE enrollments.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/11/03/pace-continues-helping-some-students-but-limits-others
The total PACE admissions was 108 in 2016. They are limited to a few majors. They apply like everyone else for CNS, McCombs, Cockrell, etc. The difference between PACE and transfer is transfer only requires 24 hours, PACE 30. And you have to complete two full semesters in PACE before enrolling full-time at UT. But for PACE, a 3.2 gets you in.
And, I was not trying to imply that ACC is better than other junior colleges or 4 yr schools. I was just trying to encourage ACC applicants as they wait. Actually, I was trying to reply to a specific ACC applicant but ended up posting to all. But I do think that ACC has a good relationship with UT.
You are correct that the advantage for ACC courses is not a thumb on the GPA scale. UT just looks at the absolute GPA and doesn’t care where it was earned - at least at the first look.
UT wants transfers to be able to graduate within 3 years, 5 at the most. In addition to major requirements, UT has university-wide flag course requirements. You may have 24 transferrable hours, but those courses may not meet UT flag or department course requirements. So if you have a bunch of transferable hours but most of them will be general electives, the departments will sense you may need more time to graduate. You will see this if you have access to the Interactive Degree Audit, which should be accessible for transfer applicants soon if not now.
Admissions may not care, but the more selective departments will take that into consideration when they are reviewing your transcript.
You are definitely right that PACE students count as part time since they take courses at UT Austin during the semester. I didn’t research enough in to that.
I also think that ACC has a special kind of relationship with UT as they even have a specific transfer guide for ACC students
https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/transfer-resources/acc-transfer-guides
This makes sense since UT has that PACE relationship with ACC like TAMU has a TEAM relationship with Blinn College.
You bring a good point that ACC’s courses transfer very well to UT (if that’s what you’re implying), but personally I think it’s not very significant. Most applicants are prospective freshman or sophomores meaning they’ll mostly be taking core curriculum courses which should transfer nicely to UT since higher education in Texas follows the same core curriculum. If someone’s hours mostly only transfer to general electives, chances are they’re from out of state.
I think in the case where someone might need to take an extra year to graduate is when they change majors. This isn’t specific to ACC or any other university or college.
Maybe going to ACC would help in this example: Say we have two freshman applicants, one from Lone Star the other from ACC. Both have the same GPA, extracurriculars, essays, socioeconomic status, etc. Let’s say the applicant from ACC has all of her courses transfer to biology, fulfilling 25% of the degree audit. The other applicant has all of his courses transfer, but has one or two courses transfer to general electives, fulfilling only 22% of the degree audit. In that case, the one going to ACC would have a higher chance of acceptance.
Generally, from my point of view, which you’ve changed, yes going to ACC does give an inherent advantage in course transferrability, but it’s not significant since most transfers are freshman or sophomores meaning the majority of their courses transfer in to the curriculum as they’re mostly lower division.
Edit: I guess what I’m trying to say is that when admissions see you’ve gone to ACC they don’t automatically give you an advantage, and rather going to ACC only gives you an advantage in course transferrability.
this might be a dumb question but are OOS transfers competing with instate transfers? or are we compared to OOS high school applicants?
I just went into review today.
If adrian went into review today, then that would seem to confirm that admissions is still operating this week, despite it being UT-Austin’s spring break. So some decisions being released this week is still possible (and highly likely if we can trust the person who said over the phone that decisions would start coming out in two weeks, two weeks ago).
Hey everyone!
I applied to COLA for Classical Studies (second choice History).
GPA: 4.00
Hours: 25
LORs: 1
Very solid essays with help from the UT admissions guy.
Resume: 1 job, 4 student organizations, ACC honor roll, good volunteer hours.
I turned everything in back in January, application complete in early Feb, and in review for a couple of weeks.
Looking forward to keeping up with everyone here! Good luck y’all!
Do yall think the first wave is for COLA??
I think so because according to past threads, usually COLA comes first
I feel like the first wave is for COLA. My second choice is COLA. Hopefully good news is coming for me and for y’all this week!
The office of admissions is open, I just got off the phone with them.
wait when is the first wave?
No one really knows, but there’s a trend that mid April is when the first wave begins to send out according to past threads.
Maybe this year the first wave will come earlier since some people went in to review quicker than past years.
I went into review Friday.
1st choice: Education
2nd choice: Nutrition
Hi everyone. I applied to CNS (biology) and I am in review. I noticed that the option to change majors is available in my UT eid. My second choice is human development and family sciences. I am considering changing my second choice to something in COLA to increase my chances of being admitted. Has anyone changed their majors after applying?
is anyone religiously checking their mystatus, as if the decisions would be coming out anytime soon? xP
ahahah after no wave came out last friday I just kinda got let down and now I’m only checking mystatus occasionally