I’m genuinely curious why UTK is so popular right now. It’s lower ranked than UNH, for example. Certainly, a warmer climate helps. It seems people want a strong business school in a cool setting. If that is the case, people should look at the U of Arkansas. Walton higher ranked, and Fayetteville is arguably a much nicer college city than Knoxville.
Don’t get me wrong. UTK is a fine school, but all SEC schools are fine schools when you come right down to it.
I think they have a vibe thing going. I toured when I was looking and was a hard no, but it is by far the most popular school in my kid’s class outside of the usual local schools. (We are in the Northeast). I’ve heard several kids say that they went on campus and it just felt right. Based on what my kid says–upward of 10% of the class is/has applied to UTK.
I’m curious - where is UTK ranked lower than UNH?
It isn’t on anything I have seen so I was curious as well. And it’s ranked ahead of Connecticut and Amherst on the list we use. But so many lists are subjective.
Sorry I meant ranked the same per us news
General ranking is sort of worthless. Unless your student is going to major in general. You really need to take a deeper dive. For instance, look at the specific major schools such as business and engineering for example. According to US News, Tennessee is ranked #47 in business and #53 in Engineering. UNH #111 Engineering and Unranked in Business.
Did anyone else get a University of Tennessee Martin email today basically stating that they want them there? Does that have any connection to the decisions coming out on Tuesday?
my son did too. really hope that it doesn’t mean that UTK is saying no!
Why was it a hard no?
I wouldn’t read anything into it. Schools send emails to lots of people everyday. That being said, my daughter did not receive an email from UT Martin.
Meh. All of these second/third tier schools are the same.
We live in the Northeast, but my family was from TN–huge Vol fans (as am I). My HS had about 400 students total and it just felt so huge. Our counselors had cautioned against going to big schools as they indicated that going from a HS of 400 to a college in the 10s of thousands was a hard transition and from their experience a lot of the kids that go to schools like that ended up living back at home go to the local directional university. And they were right, I went to a small LAC, but most of my friends that went to a state flagship ended up back at home. My kids HS is different in that their class is bigger than my whole HS was. But for me it seemed just so big and urban coming from a small town.
By comparison the next biggest school I looked at was Vanderbilt.
My daughter attended a very small catholic high school with under 600 kids and thrived a big public school of over 25k students. Studied abroad, joined a sorority, clubs and loved it!! It all depends on the student. If they are outgoing and willing to join clubs and get involved they will be fine. If they are not then a smaller school makes sense. My d would not have liked a small college it would have been like being in high school again. My second d currently a senior is also at a small high school Of under 800 students and only looking at large universities and would not thrive at a small school. IMO It all depends on the kid. if they’re willing to put themselves out there go big. If not go small.
We are also from the Northeast outside of Boston
FWIW, S24 OOS applied EA to UTK, was Deferred mid-Dec, then Waitlisted in March, then Accepted 4 days b4 May 1 deadline. OOS Acceptance Rate was 23.7% last year.
Same with our S23. Was a thrill to get that email! Loving UTK.
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What was SAT and GPA and school/degree applied for?
S24 OOS was Top 1/3rd in class of 750 (largest NY Public school north of NYC & LI), SAT 1170, GPA 3.7, 2 Varsity sports, Sports Management major, received couple D1 athletic scholarship offers, but declined those bc they didn’t quite fit and wanted SEC school instead.
Thank for sharing.