75% deferral For UT Austin OOS today

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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?

It’s not impossible, but it’s highly unlikely. The internal transfer process is transparent but acceptance still low. Still, people do accept a a COLA spot hoping to be able to transfer into engineering or computer science or most often, business. It can happen - however, if someone is really set on that major they often transfer out if they don’t get in or they just find something that’s comparable like economics, which is in cola. UT is pretty explicit about having no guarantee you can transfer into your desired major.

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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?

They do for in-state kids who are automatic admit, but I have no idea outside of that.

[Anonymous]

Of course they defer most OOS - They admit over 40% in-state apps. Why not apply to your own in-state flagship.

[Anonymous]

My kid was deferred last cycle and then admitted. Chose another school. One thing that turned our kid off was the inflexibility of changing into a lot of different majors.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred last cycle and then admitted. Chose another school. One thing that turned our kid off was the inflexibility of changing into a lot of different majors.

Yes, that is what is turning off my kid too. I mean you have to build your whole app around a major and who knows at 16-18 what exactly you want to major in and then you can't really easily change it once there either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred last cycle and then admitted. Chose another school. One thing that turned our kid off was the inflexibility of changing into a lot of different majors.

Yes, that is what is turning off my kid too. I mean you have to build your whole app around a major and who knows at 16-18 what exactly you want to major in and then you can't really easily change it once there either.

Yep, that's how he felt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Of course they defer most OOS - They admit over 40% in-state apps. Why not apply to your own in-state flagship.

Yes, we heard you the last time you said that.

[Anonymous]

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

Troll

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred last cycle and then admitted. Chose another school. One thing that turned our kid off was the inflexibility of changing into a lot of different majors.

+1, our kid got into McCombs and turned it down, because you just can’t double major reasonably outside the college without being Canfield business honors (its own major). It just felt incredibly restrictive and no reason to pay OOS for a public institution where DS isn’t even sure he likes the field that much

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Last year, my son was auto admit and got his decision (biology) on 1/15. He had about 20 friends who were auto admits, and all but one got their decision on 1/15. The one who did not eventually got in business with a decision on 2/15.
Many many kids who we know got in on 1/15 last year who were not auto admits - from all majors including business and STEM.
At least this year there's a warning - last year, everyone expected a decision on 1/15.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred last cycle and then admitted. Chose another school. One thing that turned our kid off was the inflexibility of changing into a lot of different majors.

+1, our kid got into McCombs and turned it down, because you just can’t double major reasonably outside the college without being Canfield business honors (its own major). It just felt incredibly restrictive and no reason to pay OOS for a public institution where DS isn’t even sure he likes the field that much

+1

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Anonymous wrote: Of course they defer most OOS - They admit over 40% in-state apps. Why not apply to your own in-state flagship.

You’re literally in a DC forum and DC has no “in-state flagship” … do better at reading the room.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Of course they defer most OOS - They admit over 40% in-state apps. Why not apply to your own in-state flagship.

You’re literally in a DC forum and DC has no “in-state flagship” … do better at reading the room.

Yeah because most of the posters on here actually live in D.C and not other states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year, my son was auto admit and got his decision (biology) on 1/15. He had about 20 friends who were auto admits, and all but one got their decision on 1/15. The one who did not eventually got in business with a decision on 2/15.
Many many kids who we know got in on 1/15 last year who were not auto admits - from all majors including business and STEM.
At least this year there's a warning - last year, everyone expected a decision on 1/15.

Interesting. We just did this last year too. I don’t even remember if my own kid found out in January or February about his major. I definitely don’t remember what was going on with 20 other kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Of course they defer most OOS - They admit over 40% in-state apps. Why not apply to your own in-state flagship.

You’re literally in a DC forum and DC has no “in-state flagship” … do better at reading the room.

Yeah because most of the posters on here actually live in D.C and not other states.

A fair amount of us do - check out the DCPS forum! Twit.