Howdy!
I figured I would create a thread for UT Engineering applicants since some of us are still agonizing over the wait. I didn’t see a separate Engineering thread, if already exists please redirect.
Please post your stats and let us know if you got accepted or are waiting for a decision for the School of Engineering.
In state/OOS:
When applied and when accepted:
Major (first/second):
ACT/SAT Scores:
WGPA / UW GPA:
Class rank:
ECs:
Anything else that you can add that will help this year’s and or next year’s students.
Thanks!
Daughter admitted to Petroleum Engineering (applied day opened & heard Dec 17)
In State
SAT 1420 ACT 30
GPA 3.86 UW 4.40 W (moved from competitive school fr/so year with 5.0 scale gpa where only 2-3 A’s given per class in CO to extremely competitive jr/sr with 6.0 scale in TX where mostly A’s given but 100% is different than 90%) She was ~10% in CO but 27% in TX
ECs Lots of sports at upper JV, lower V level. Lots of volunteering but not really with intention to influence admissions.
Will have 6 AP but only one 3 in Spanish so far
She didn’t do any essays since she figured it was a long shot since class ranking was so low but was admitted anyway.
Also admitted to Colorado School of Mines is ($46k/yr) and Texas Tech Honors ($19k) after scholarships. CSM is her first choice but will only go if aid can lower cost to below UT. She’s still holding on to Tech for the study-abroad opportunities and the Honors dorm we already paid the $750 application fee for. She is waiting to see if she gets on-campus housing at UT which is very limited. She paid the appl fee late Dec so we’ll see where that puts her in line.
@awlcharris submitting your UT housing application in December is still pretty early. I don’t think your daughter will have any trouble getting on-campus housing. Hook 'em!
@FloMoMom Yep, she got her contract Mar 1st. She picked Kinsolving as her first choice then the 4 Honors quad dorms as the rest. She didn’t get into Honors but we’ve heard not many are reserved for them anyway. Maybe she should have picked Jester as 5th on the list just in case???
@awlcharris Who did you hear that from? While we were waiting to hear on my son’s honor program status I wrote to housing and this is what they told me.
“Honors housing is reserved for honors students. Towards the end of room selection, if there are any spaces remaining in the quad, we might open up some extra spaces in Blanton. It doesn’t happen every year though so I would not count on that. He can check back with us closer to room selection to see what the status is on that. And, honestly, the makeup of students changes every year in these buildings/halls. If he doesn’t get honors, have him look into the smaller halls as there would be less noise/potential chaos–Moore-Hill, Creekside, Brackenridge, Roberts, and Prather would be the smaller halls.”
@parentof3kids My understanding after watching some videos on line, reading what I could, and hearing from housing was that if he is choosing a roommate, he would need to be honors OR they’d have to choose something outside the quad. The reason I was so confused in the first place was because when we went on our tour last spring our tour guide was in Plan II and he said that you didn’t need to be in honors to be in the quad. However, I think he had come to that conclusion on his own because there were some nonhonors students in Blanton. But as the housing rep told us, they occasionally open up those spots. My guess is because Blanton is the least desirable dorm in the quad and after honors admittees have chosen housing there are still a few rooms left.
We know a family who’s son got into PACE last year and he ended up in Blanton because they waited until too late to submit a housing application. She was the one who alerted me that we needed to get that in as soon as possible following submitting the application to the University. Blanton was all that was left out of all the housing because they were in the last round of people who got to choose housing on campus.