UT Austin has always been my dream school, but I have recently come to learn that if you are not an auto-admit student, the only way to get admitted into the school is getting accepted to your first major. I am aware that the Cockrell School of Engineering is very selective, but my first choice is civil engineering and second is CNS, undeclared. With my numbers provided, do I have a realistic chance of getting to my first pick, or should I change my requested major to CNS, undeclared and transfer to civil once admitted into the school? Thanks in advance.
Extracurricular:
-130 hours of community service
-Science Olympiad
-Math Olympiad
-Varsity Soccer
-Student Council
-Junior World Affair Council
-College Readiness and Leadership Program
Apply for the major you hope to be in, Civil Engineering. Do not go in undeclared in hopes of a better chance at engineering because that’s not the case. Your stats are decent, and civil is one of the easier engineering majors. Easier than hard is still hard haha.
You rank will hurt you big time.
It sounds like you’re a senior. Time for application updates are over. How could you change your major?
@deluxan - if I remember correctly when we visited UT last year, I believe they said that you couldn’t start with a different major and transfer into the College of Engineering later. (I’m not referring to students transferring from a different university). UT has some required freshmen engineering classes and if you start with a different major, you can’t get into the very selective engineering school after the fact.
So you are right to have Civil Engineering as your major.
Were you able to write an explanation of your rank in an essay? That’s the thing that may be an issue for you from the stats you posted.
@momoftres I decided not to mention the reason for my rank because I did not want to come off as some who makes excuses. In retrospect, I regret not explaining why it is so low.
You can’t change the major you’ll be reviewed under after the application deadline. I think you have a decent chance, but I hope you applied as your intended major. It’s hard to transfer into engineering at most schools, especially UT Austin.
ut got real strict on those backdoor major students getting in and tryna get to their dream major once theyre in ut according to the threads of people attempting to internal transfer after landing a spot in a noncompetitive major