Starting thread for those interested in Comp Sci Turing Honors Program. In my notes I have notification for Turing potential candidates happening mid-December, but I think that’s unlikely at this point. Son was accepted yesterday to UT CNS CS so now just waiting to hear about Turing. Please post if you hear anything from UT about Turing candidates or the process.
Some Turing acceptances have gone out. I know someone who was notified.
It seems that they take in roughly the top 20% of the incoming class into Turing/honors. They accept around 80 and 40 attend. UT CS incoming class size is around 400. They say on their website that there are around 1800 CS undergraduates.
The UT CS website also says a couple of questionable things like UT has the “largest Top 10 program in the country”… and “the only Top 10 program within 1000 miles of Austin”.
Both UIUC and Georgia Tech are within a 1000 miles of Austin and are Top 10 CS undergrad and grad schools.
UIUC has 1300 undergrad, 700 grad students
GT has 2500 undergrad, 900 grad students
UT has 1800 undergrad, 200 grad students
Do you know how they were notified about Turing? The portal, email or snail mail?
They got a form letter in the mail congratulating them.
bump-anyone else heard about Turing?
We’re also waiting to hear from GTech. I’m hoping his admission to UT is a positive sign for his chances at GT, but who knows. We have family in that area and the smaller school is more appealing to me, but not sure my son really cares about size. Since you seem familar with these programs, do you have any insight about the differences between UT and GT for CS?
@COMom09 We’re waiting to hear from both UT/Turing and GTech. Not sure if he’s going to be picked up in the next wave at UT. He’s NMSF, perfect ACT, >4.3WtGPA Would you mind sharing your son’s stats? Thanks!
@RubinK Your son’s stats sound fantastic! I know another family who has a star student with outstanding numbers who is also still waiting to hear from UT-their process is quite a mystery. My son’s stats are 1530 SAT (790math), 800 SAT Math2, 750 Chem, 4.0 GPA, ranking is wonky because he is in a program that doesn’t rank, took dual enrolled courses at community college (some the district refused to weight for political reasons=lower GPA) and state uni in Calc 1, 2, 3, and intro to CS, 4 AP classes, no scores reported except the CS AP 5 which he self-studied for without the class. ECs were pretty good and community service (200+hours) interning at science camp with kids two summers. But, no leadership positions or national competitions/awards. Had an off day on the PSAT and our state cutoff went up this year, so he missed it by a point. Candidly, my feeling was he was unlikely to get into UT if they strictly went by the numbers, which is what I heard/read because his path was a bit different. I guess they looked beyond that. Hope you hear something soon, the waiting is the pits. Still haven’t heard about Turing and thinking it’s unlikely based on last years acceptances and their stats.
@COMom09 Thanks for sharing! Based on your son’s stats, it seems both kids are pretty close in terms of their respective performances. My son’s school doesn’t rank either, he had 1530 SAT like your son, 36 ACT, 7 AP tests (all 5s), 11 AP classes (CS, physics, math, lit, history, econ), taking 3 more this semester, two tech summer internships, engaged in two competitions over the years with some leadership, and active in community service (probably less than 200 hours though). I think we just need to be patient for the next wave for UT & Turing; GTech, hopefully, would respond soon as well. Where do you get the information on last year’s cutoff stats for Turing and what were they? Since we didn’t hear anything from UT, he ended up spending most of his winter break on applications to multiple other schools. That was unfortunate, because he could have used the time to take a well deserved break. In the hindsight, getting a response in December was probably an unrealistic expectation. Good luck to your son and hope to hear something soon!
I got my letter just now. International student.
Son found out Thursday that he was admitted to Turing Scholars
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@RubinK Hope your son had good news, although it sounds like admissions got way behind on applications and a lot of people who applied priority are still waiting. As to your question about Turing stats I haven’t seen an official posting of that. My info was from reading the accepted stats thread from last year. Compared to last year, doesn’t seem like many have received acceptances. We haven’t gotten anything here yet.
@jamesja Did your son’s acceptance say when the Turing open house or reception would be? Last year it was Feb and I would think there would be more acceptances posted by now if that was the case again.
The goto_Turing event is on Feb 19.
@COMom09 He received Georgia Tech acceptance but nothing from UT on his priority app so far. Hopefully, we will have a decision in the next few days.
@RubinK Congrats on GT, hopefully you will hear something soon. Our son is wondering if he will be lost in the crowd at UT not being in the Turing program. TAMU offered him honors and Purdue offered him merit $$, still waiting for honors results to come out at P, so not sure where UT will fall on the list with no honors, and no $$.
Has anyone accepted to CS received a Turing rejection yet?
@austexlonghorn I heard they don’t send rejections. You just don’t hear.
When can non-priorities expect a decision? I’m assuming sometime before Feb 19. What do you guys think?