75% deferral For UT Austin OOS today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through this with two of my kids in state.

The top 5% of each public high school gets automatic admission. Even then, none of them are guaranteed their first choice major. They all find out they are “accepted” a few days after they submit their applications in the fall with a transcript showing that they’re in the top 5% as of the end of junior year, but they don’t find out their major usually until January or February. Some do find out before this, but not most.

This is why the acceptance rate is like 30% or whatever. I would say half the kids who are accepted don’t attend because they didn’t get their desired major or can’t afford it or what have you.

75% of the class must be in state residents.

Business, engineering, and computer science are all extremely competitive both in and oos.

Do you know if the hot majors have a larger % of oos students? I assume the 75% requirement is for the university as a whole? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

My question is: How is the extra month going to help with reviewing 75,000 applications?

It didn't which is why it was commonly assumed that they just put a good half of them directly in the trash.

In that case, perhaps they should release decisions for EA applications on Feb 15 and RD ones in March?

[Anonymous]

The reddit thread posted has other explanations that seem to make more sense than just “they haven’t had time to review 75% of the applications.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As it should be. Apply to your own state’s flagship!

All of these people have applied to their own state’s flagship. But their own flagships are unpredictable, just like yours.

And DC does not have one…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

My DC submitted an app knowing the chance of acceptance was minuscule. Isn’t something like 8% out of state including internationals?

Actually from their CDS last year, the international admit rate was slightly higher at almost 13% and the domestic oos rate was 11%.

According to the CDS of UNC (another school very hard for oos kids to get into), the international admit rate was 14% and the domestic oos rate was only 6.6%.

[Anonymous]

UT Austin admissions was an utter mess last year.

DS got a rejection letter. Then he got an email from a professor at UT Austin Turing Scholars honors program, which is even more selective, encouraging him to accept the offer. It turns out he did in fact get in, but they messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

UT Austin admission is highly highly major-specific.

+1, UT isn’t stats heavy in the way a lot of moms think of college admissions outside of CS, engineering and business.
Schools like Nursing, Architecture, and advertising are complete crapshoots and not stats dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UT Austin admissions was an utter mess last year.

DS got a rejection letter. Then he got an email from a professor at UT Austin Turing Scholars honors program, which is even more selective, encouraging him to accept the offer. It turns out he did in fact get in, but they messed up.

This happens every year. Turing admission is by CS faculty, while CS admission is done by undergraduate admissions. They don’t have to agree, because they’re independent processes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been through this with two of my kids in state.

The top 5% of each public high school gets automatic admission. Even then, none of them are guaranteed their first choice major. They all find out they are “accepted” a few days after they submit their applications in the fall with a transcript showing that they’re in the top 5% as of the end of junior year, but they don’t find out their major usually until January or February. Some do find out before this, but not most.

This is why the acceptance rate is like 30% or whatever. I would say half the kids who are accepted don’t attend because they didn’t get their desired major or can’t afford it or what have you.

75% of the class must be in state residents.

Business, engineering, and computer science are all extremely competitive both in and oos.

What I never understood about UT- is how difficult is it to change majors (not into CS or engineering or business). So if you get into COLA but want to do CNS later - is it impossible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UT Austin admissions was an utter mess last year.

DS got a rejection letter. Then he got an email from a professor at UT Austin Turing Scholars honors program, which is even more selective, encouraging him to accept the offer. It turns out he did in fact get in, but they messed up.

This happens every year. Turing admission is by CS faculty, while CS admission is done by undergraduate admissions. They don’t have to agree, because they’re independent processes.

They don’t have to agree, but they do have to communicate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

UT Austin admission is highly highly major-specific.

+1, UT isn’t stats heavy in the way a lot of moms think of college admissions outside of CS, engineering and business.
Schools like Nursing, Architecture, and advertising are complete crapshoots and not stats dependent.

Do they look at second major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

UT Austin admission is highly highly major-specific.

+1, UT isn’t stats heavy in the way a lot of moms think of college admissions outside of CS, engineering and business.
Schools like Nursing, Architecture, and advertising are complete crapshoots and not stats dependent.

Do they look at second major?

Usually it’s completely useless. Most colleges fill up their seats with their first majors and it’s very rare you get your second major if it’s in anything slightly popular. You can say goodbye to your second major if it’s nursing, business, CS, architecture, COLA, or COE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last year was a disaster for UT Austin OOS. They basically deferred everyone EA due to "not being able to read the applications" and yet thy admitted some RD kids at the same time. Then they rejected almost all the EA apps (like 50K worth) 2 weeks later and it was commonly assumed that they never read most of those early apps. On Reddit there were plenty of OOS kids with a 3.5/1300 getting in and 4.9/1580 getting rejected.

Then they only had about 500 OOS kids matriculate into the class. It's a tiny number.

UT Austin admission is highly highly major-specific.

+1, UT isn’t stats heavy in the way a lot of moms think of college admissions outside of CS, engineering and business.
Schools like Nursing, Architecture, and advertising are complete crapshoots and not stats dependent.

Do they look at second major?

I thought the second major was an in-state thing related to earlier posts about being accepted but waiting to hear on major. I thought OOS would only focus on first major.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAdmissions/comments/1qdjsdz/75_deferral/

Who cares? If you send your kid to Texas right now you are an idiot

You obviously know nothing about Austin Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAdmissions/comments/1qdjsdz/75_deferral/

Who cares? If you send your kid to Texas right now you are an idiot

You obviously know nothing about Austin Texas.

Austin isn’t that liberal and is surrounded by libertarian freaks in the suburbs.