count her/his blessings for being auto admitted<<<<<<<
Nice thought but not much use if the student doesn’t get anywhere near engineering. What does he do then? Obviously the answer is he needs a better list and has way too many reaches. Wanting a step up from UT indicates that this might be hard to hear. For sure, the auto admit peculiarity might foster a sense of expectation that isn’t especially warranted when looking at competitive engineering programs elsewhere.