Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. It ucks. UCLA gets 120k apps, NYU and Northeastern get 100k. Other colleges can manage, but not Texas?

?? If Harvard got a 40k increase to 100k apps, they’d also have admissions issues. UT had has a consistent steady rise from 40-70k apps over a long term period. They had 3x the increase in apps as years prior. I get your emotional you didn’t get your admission decision, but this is stupid.

Are you saying they went from 70 to 140k in a year?

I know two OOS kids admitted. Neither are good students but parents have connections at the school, kids had personal interviews, etc.

I know this is how the world works but in these cases, wow. At least the Ivies bump otherwise qualified legacies. In these cases it straight B students were admitted while all the strong applicants my kid knows (large public) weren't even read.

Texas A&M is a better option.

Gig 'em, Aggies!

This is some serious incompetence by Texas admissions. Nothing is surprising. UCLA got 170,000 applications this year. Berkeley got 130,000. Michigan got 105,000. There has been a longterm trend toward prominent public universities for some time now, particularly in the south. The entire SEC has seen a massive uptake in apps for several years now. Why on earth were administrators at Texas-Austin unprepared? For a major university, their admissions office is very mickey mouse.

Anonymous wrote:You’d think Texas would expect an uptick in applications…the Arch Manning football era is starting next Fall

+1

This doesn’t mean our system is broken.
Texas needs better enrollment management.
They do a lot of things that are difficult to coordinate- mandatory admission to top 6 percent, admissions by major (not even school, by major), cap of 10 percent on non residents and now huge spike.
They have to place the auto admits before they know if there’s enough room for non autos and that requires seeing the entire pool of applicants. If they get it wrong, they could have 12,000 people show up for 8500 spots pretty easily.
It’s not the system. It’s Texas. They have had a horrible admissions process for years. This was par for the course.

Anyone who isn’t part of the higher institution industry knows damn well the system is broken, on so many levels.

The college system isn't broken, our society is. Your reaction over your child likely not getting into one of the most popular schools in the country--which it has been for decades--doesn't signal a broken system. Your kid doesn't have to go to Texas. Our poor children have so much pressure on them. Another thread tries to get to the heart of why our children are so unhappy. Just think more about posts like this. Maybe if more parents just calmed down and acted normal, that could be a good first step to healing these poor kids.

You’d think Texas would expect an uptick in applications…the Arch Manning football era is starting next Fall

Test required for the current applicants-----> https://news.utexas.edu/2024/03/11/ut-austin-reinstates-standardized-test-scores-in-admissions/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they test required this year?

Nope, they bring it back next admissions cycle.

no, they were required this cycle. And as previous poster stated--no superscore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. It ucks. UCLA gets 120k apps, NYU and Northeastern get 100k. Other colleges can manage, but not Texas?

?? If Harvard got a 40k increase to 100k apps, they’d also have admissions issues. UT had has a consistent steady rise from 40-70k apps over a long term period. They had 3x the increase in apps as years prior. I get your emotional you didn’t get your admission decision, but this is stupid.

Why do you think the number of applicants increases so much?

Anonymous wrote:Were they test required this year?

Nope, they bring it back next admissions cycle.

Anonymous wrote:Were they test required this year?

Yes required and no super score

Anonymous wrote:This makes no sense. It ucks. UCLA gets 120k apps, NYU and Northeastern get 100k. Other colleges can manage, but not Texas?

?? If Harvard got a 40k increase to 100k apps, they’d also have admissions issues. UT had has a consistent steady rise from 40-70k apps over a long term period. They had 3x the increase in apps as years prior. I get your emotional you didn’t get your admission decision, but this is stupid.