<p>Are the auto admits notified first of acceptance or do some holistic review apps get notified early in the process? Does every application have to be reviewed before people are accepted? Since at least 25% will be non-autos, how does it work? Sorry if this has been explained before, but, of course, the process may change. I'm especially curious about the business school.</p>
<p>Hi, Tiger1992:</p>
<p>Someone more knowledgable than me will come along and let you know how this works. Seems I’ve heard it is extremely hard to get into McCombs if you are not in the tip top of your class. Perfect test scores or awesome ECs might get you there, but seems its mostly about rank. I could be wrong. Best wishes to you! I hope you are accepted at the school of your choice.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank, so we can only know if we are in the top 15-20% based on the number that make the top honor roll tier. My scores are very good and so are my EC’s/honors/leadership, I think. Thanks - I’m not very patient. My parents talk about how much fun Senior year is supposed to be, but everyone is so stressed out and grumpy!! My mom says when she applied for college you would choose a school, send in the paperwork, and go in the fall. No rankings, no competing for scholarships, no essays. No stress!</p>
<p>I’m truly sorry you aren’t having the care-free experience I had my senior year way back in 1985. Back then, rank was decided at end of fall semester of your senior year. All you had to do the last semester was pass. 69 was failing. We had regular classes or accelerated or gift/talented. There was no opportunity for dual credit or AP, hence no one was pressured into doing that. The good old days … This new way is stressful for all of us. Yes, I’m saying it … you have it much harder than we did.</p>
<p>at my school, all of the auto admits (or at least the ones that I am friends with) have been notified of both their general acceptance to UT, and acceptance to one of the schools. This was just weeks after they applied, too, back in November/December.</p>
<p>I am not an auto admit, and I have not been notified of either acceptance or rejection from UT yet. So it seems, to me at least, that auto admits received admission right after they applied, and non autos have either been notified very recently, or will be soon.</p>
<p>I was a non-auto who applied in October and I got my acceptance by December. I have friends, though, who applied in October/November and still have yet to hear anything back. I think part of it is when you turned in your app, and also probably what your majors is and scores and ECs. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Folks applying to restricted majors, like business and engineering, often find out much later. 2 years ago my son (top 7%, 31 ACT-solid, but not stellar) knew he was an auto-admit, but didn’t get the letter until March because he was not auto-admitted in to Cockrell.</p>
<p>@xlc, UT is doing something this year it didn’t do in 2009 (I had one then and another now!)–it has sent a “Congrats, you’re a Longhorn, stand by for details on major” letter to auto-admits whose first choice was an impacted major like Eng or Bus. It has made that long wait less stressful!</p>
<p>@Tiger, to answer the questions in your original post:</p>
<p>1-Admits started being reported here on CC in October. UT tries to confirm all auto admits as soon as possible. UT also admits some very strong holistic review candidates as their applications are reviewed. </p>
<p>2-No, UT doesn’t wait until December to begin reviewing applications. (Thank goodness, considering they have to review 30,000+ applications!)</p>
<p>3-All holistic review candidates undergo the same general evaluation + any additional review set by a specific major or program. You can see the detailed admission rubric involving Academic Index + Personal Achievement Index beginning at page 4 of the latest “Top 10% Report” (the name lingers even though the law was amended and this year’s percentage is 8%, the 2012 qualifier is 9%, etc.):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report13.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report13.pdf</a></p>
<p>Specifically for Business, here’s what happens: </p>
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<p>Admission
Admission decisions for the McCombs School of Business are made by the Office of Admissions. We do not, at any point, see applications. There is no separate application for the McCombs School of Business, except for the Business Honors Program. If interested in being considered for the McCombs School of Business, simply indicate Unspecified Business as your first-choice major on the ApplyTexas application. You should also give careful consideration to the second college or major that you list. If admissible, students will enter McCombs as unspecified business students. </p>
<p>Texas legislation guarantees admission to the University of Texas for students graduating in the top 8% of their class from a Texas accredited high school. It does not, however, guarantee admission into the McCombs School of Business.</p>
<p>1.A maximum of 75% of the Texas resident spaces (approximately 750 students) is admitted according to rank. The Office of Admission begins with those students ranked in the top 1%, followed by top 2%, and so on until approximately 75% of the class is filled.
2.The remaining 25% of our Texas resident spots (approximately 250 students) are admitted through a competitive process. After automatically admitting eligible Texas applicants each year, the university fills any remaining spaces in the freshman class through holistic review.
If not admitted to McCombs as a freshman, UT students will have the opportunity to apply for admission through the internal transfer process.</p>
<h2>[Getting</a> Admitted | McCombs School of Business | The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://new.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Prospective/Admission.aspx]Getting”>http://new.mccombs.utexas.edu/BBA/Prospective/Admission.aspx)</h2>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Thank you for all the time you spend helping us through! In one thread, someone said that McCombs was capping the auto-admits at 65%. Is that correct? I know that the state allows the university to set an auto-admit cap, but the cap does not apply to schools within the university (at least I think that’s what it says!) I tried to calculate the AI and PAI but lots of it are based on reviewers opinions (a good test of my math skills!) We’re all just looking for things that make us think we have a chance.</p>
<p>@Tiger, not sure where the other reference to 65% came from. But the above-quoted excerpt from the McCombs’ web site is pretty clear in saying they will fill by rank (working from 1% up) until they reach 75% of the incoming business class reserved for Texans; the remaining spots for Texas residents (they numerically estimate at 250) will be filled by holistic review.</p>
<p>Maybe it was figuring in 10% of the spots being held for OOS, so 65% of all spots? Don’t want to get into the math since we would be talking about 75% of 90% is 67.5%, etc. Glad to have someone with info on McCombs watching CC!</p>
<p>@Tiger, I think you’re on to something–I never thought of crunching the numbers to get 75% of 90%. That is why you are going to business school and I stay as far away from math as possible!</p>