<p>I was accepted to the University of Texas at Austin, but was rejected by my major of choice and was placed in "Undeclared." However, the letter says "If you applied or plan to apply to a freshman honors program(s), the honor program(s) to which you applied will contact you directly with their admission decision."</p>
<p>It seems somewhat nonsensical to not be admitted to my regular major and instead be accepted by the honors version of it, but the letter seems to imply that there's a possibility of such an event. What exactly does this mean?</p>
<p>I don’t know for sure, but I think that they write that because you might have applied to an honors program in conjunction with your second choice. I don’t think that you can be denied admission to the College of Liberal Arts, for example, and then be accepted into the College of Liberal Arts Honors Program. But say your second choice was the College of Natural Sciences and you applied to the honors program for that college- there is a possibility that you will be accepted to that honors program even though you didn’t get your first choice. I’m sure that a phone call could clear it up. It is such a large university that there seem to be several different levels of acceptance. For example, my daughter received an initial letter of acceptance from UT, then a second letter of acceptance from the College of Liberal Arts, then a third letter of acceptance from the Liberal Arts Honors Program and most recently a letter from the Plan II Honors Program telling her that she was not accepted into their program. When I went to college many years ago, you got in or you didn’t, but I attended a much smaller university. I find UT to be huge and overwhelming, but I have just picked up the phone when I’ve had questions. Hope this helps, and good luck at UT or wherever you go to college.</p>
<p>No it is possible to be rejected by your first choice and then accepted to the honors program of your first choice because the decisions are made seperately. My friend got rejected from engineering and accepted into natural sciences and then later was called and told he got accepted into the honors program for biomedical engineering. So I guess the honors program negated the admissions office.</p>
<p>you got a call about the honors program? I received my first acceptance letter and then a follow up. and then recently like 3 weeks ago i received a packet and got my acceptance letter to Plan II Honors. I haven’t spoken to anyone from Texas but I’m not that worried.</p>
<p>Honors programs and the schools operate separately. Think about how tons of people not in liberal arts get accepted to Plan II, they weren’t even considered for the liberal arts major but instead the plan ii committee accepted them.</p>