@F33derman Being a US citizen but living internationally, you would be considered out of state.
@F33derman You’d be considered a resident of the US state where you hold residency. If that’s Texas, you’d be in state. If not, you’re OOS. (I was in the same situation in college. I attended a high school in Europe but my family had Colorado residency, so I was considered a CO resident.)
Could someone please tell me my chances
School: Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Classification: Junior (61 Credits)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
GPA: 3.70
Transferring into: Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Extracurricular: Chemistry Club, Phi Delta Theta member, Toastmasters, internship at Magnum Oil Tools and undergraduate chemistry research under the supervision of Dr. Marquez.
Volunteer: American Red Cross volunteer and founder of Unite organization (Community service in Mexico)
Essays and resume where great
Three Recommendation Letters, General Chemistry I and II professors and Organic Chemistry I professor.
Fall 2014
Composition I: A
Trigonometry: B
Political Science US Government: A
First Year Seminar: A
Foundations of Engineering I: A
General Chemistry I: A
Spring 2015
General Chemistry II: B
Calculus I: A
Political Science Texas Government: A
Music Appreciation: A
Foundations of Engineering II: B
Summer 2015
Calculus II: A
University Physics I: B
University Physics II: A
Fall 2016
Calculus III: A
Biology I: B
Organic Chemistry I: A
Composition II: A
Spring 2016 (Enrolled)
Thermodynamics
Differential Equations
General Chemistry II
Organic Chemistry II
English Literature
Hello all, I’m currently finishing up my last semester at a community college in Texas and planning on transferring to the University of Texas at Austin. My GPA is currently a 3.94 out of 4 due to one B that I made in a dual credit class in high school. My first choice is the Jackson School of Geosciences. I am currently taking Calc 2 and Engineering Physics 1. I have completed Chemistry 1 and 2 and have received all A’s in the courses I have taken at my community college. I was wondering if anyone knows if UT Austin will be a good place for me and what are my chances of getting in? By the time I transfer I should have 60 credit hours.
I really appreciate any thoughts! Thanks!
There is a separate thread on transfers a couple of threads down. You’ll get much better answers there since that group is more familiar with transfers. This group is better with freshman admissions.
Does anybody know when there might be another wave of decisions? Or if most decisions will be out by next week like last year?
No one knows when decisions will come out until they start arriving in the email inbox and on My Status pages. I am, however, willing to bet that there will be at least one wave in the next 18 days.
UT Admissions Twitter:
@BeALonghorn: Decisions aren’t normally released by school (except honors). All decisions will be released by March 1.
Anxiously waiting for the next Liberal Arts wave. Anyone here majoring in International Relations?
The big wave of UT admissions was released on Friday, February 21 in 2014 and on Thursday, February 19 in 2015. If past history is an indication of what will happen in 2016, the wait is almost over!
Let’s avoid setting expectations about when decisions will be announced. UT says March 1. I expect March 1. Any earlier is a bonus. UW-Masdison stated that their EA decisions (what they call First Fall Notification) would be announced “by the end of January.” There was plenty of speculation over on that thread about some decisions coming out two weekends before. When that didn’t happen, the Friday before was speculated. That mob was whipped into an angry frenzy by the time OOS decisions were announced at 7pm CST on Sunday January 31st.
@epacsmis I really don’t get why people were so angry that they had to wait until January 31st, the date UW said they would release decisions by. I was fine with waiting and was ecstatic to get into UW. Patience is a virtue and it seems the kids on this forum don’t have any of it. UW released their decisions by their time frame, so why was everyone so upset? If UT ends up releasing their decisions on March 1st, they still reached their time frame, but I’m willing to bet a bunch of bratty kids will say “this is so unfair”, which is what I was reading in the UW thread when they didn’t release decisions a week before their deadline.
That is pretty unavoidable on CC. That is just part of it and a reason why most people follow this thread.
Our son applied early October for engineering (BME), honors and merit scholarships. He is auto admit but still no word on preferred major, honors or scholarship in 4 months. 34/967 rank, 3.95 UW GPA, 34 ACT, 2310 SAT. BTW, at Texas A&M, he got BME soon after applying but still no word on honors or merit aid.
A&M fills majors first come first serve up to a certain percentage. UT fills them using AI/PAI. Very different systems which I find interesting. The A&M system rewards the early bird auto admit/academic admit candidate. I would think at some point A&M would get so many applications in August that they will have to change their system to something more like UT’s but I guess that hasn’t happened yet.
TAMU does not assign majors in engineering upon admission. Everyone is given general engineering and you apply to your major during freshman year. This process makes TAMU risky if you don’t get the major you want. Son’s friend is now doing civil because he was denied from mech e.
@gettingschooled Texas A & M is switching to 100% holistic review for engineering for 2017 applicants. Hopefully those thinking they would be automatically admitted are prepping for their SATs and ACTs if they didn’t score well junior year.
@dansmoaustin Good point! I should not confuse getting into a college with getting into a major. Two different things!
I was just discussing with a friend that I had heard about A & M changing their policy for 2017 and for the life of me, could not find it online at the time. I found the TAMU page just now and found it interesting that after holistic review, applicants are still only admitted into general engineering and not the applicants major, while UT’s holistic approach, an applicant is accepted into that specific engineering major.
I found the early action decisions interesting, of all materials submitted by Oct 15 and you have a decision mid Dec and submitted by the regular Dec 1 deadline, you hear by mid Jan.
UT sent out a Campus to Counselor newsletter stating that all the remaining decisions are supposed to come out this week. Got this from the Class of 2020 Facebook. Looking for a link.