Non Auto-Admit into UT Fall 2020 Chances

BlueBayouAZ
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:25:26 +0000

I think @GTAustin is on the mark when talking about flexibility. UT and TAMU have pretty structured degree plans and majors. Right now you don’t exactly know what you want to do @cw3131 and that is okay. You are still young and have time to make up your mind.

Back when I went to college - there were so many core required classes, and duel credit and AP were not as nearly prevalent - that the bulk of your first two years were taken up with core classes. Now you start major class much earlier. And it is great because, in theory, you are taking classes you are passionate about.

But a drawback of starting major classes so early is that at some schools for certain degrees - there is very little flexibility to change majors without putting yourself a year or more behind.

Some schools like UTD still offer a great deal of flexibility. UTD does not offer pre-med or pre-law degrees. But they have a whole advising office dedicated to making sure whatever you choose to major in, you are still fulfilling your admissions requirements for med or law school. They went as far as to say if you want to be a dance major - they can structure your degree plan so you will have all the course requirements for law or med school admission.