Congratulations to you and your daughter. Ups and downs are part of life.
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Congrats! UT Nursing is super competitive
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My family has gone through this process with UT before, with my sister and all of my cousins. Also taking into consideration the randomness of acceptances, UT is all about luck of the draw. I am not audio admit but I have neutral feelings because it’s all about the luck of the draw. last year, I had a friend who was accepted with a 3.4 28 ACT, while my friend with a 4.1 35 ACT got rejected. It’s all about EC and luck.
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This is true. I saw a non-auto with a 1310 on reddit get accepted in psych November and my friend today who’s in top 4% with a 35 act got rejected from psychology and was placed in her second choice philosophy. Since she’s persuing pre-law she still plans on attending UT but all UT majors this year seem extremely competitive, and everything will be weighed heavier ranging from ecs to essays…
Thank you! I started seeing y’all posting about the “bad data” changing on your RIS so checked and her RIS changed…hours later officially changed on portal
Has your daughter applied EA or RD?
Congratulations to your daughter!
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I wonder how many appeals will be successful. Still, I do not see any engineering or computer science AA acceptances today.
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Application completed on October 19th so priority deadline
Congratulations to your daughter. Fantastic!
Do you mind letting us know her stats? My D21 is OOS applied to Nursing priority. Not very hopeful after reading all the posts today.
Sorry to everyone. I KNOW how disappointed you must feel.
Congrats.
mood. The only things that I’m holding on to get me into nursing are my volunteer hours working in post-op as a pseudo-nurse (the only thing I wasn’t allowed to do was draw blood and give medicine), and the fact that I worked in the COVID department making testing kits and helping patients on ventilators.
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That’s GREAT experience! And if UT is not the match for you, then wherever you land will be all the better for your past volunteer experience. Take it from a practicing nurse, myself. Your experience is invaluable and you will take it anywhere you go!
Good luck to you!
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I honestly do not think it is yield protection. UT has way too many highly qualified students to worry about yield protection. Every spot they have has many, many more qualified applicants than they have room for. This happened to my son last year, although with some differences. He did not have as high SAT and some of the kids “rejected” today, and he was, at least, offered a spot in engineering (he wanted ME or EE, but was offered civil). This makes me think that this year is even more competitive than last year. Maybe the rumor about them getting many more applications this year is true. That is the only thing than makes sense to me as to why some of these high stat kids are not even getting offered another engineering major.
My son appealed twice, and was unsuccessful on both, but we did hear of successful appeals last year, and, of course, the kids offered spots in engineering who did not even appeal, so it’s not impossible. Also, some advice we got was appeal even if there is no “significant reason”. We used the fact that my son’s (already high) class rank improved by another 6 places and then also sited his stellar 1st semester grades along with some robotics competition wins/awards. We heard of others successfully appealing with less than that, and, still others, who got in without an appeal at all (although much later). You have nothing to lose by appealing even if you don’t have a significant reason, but just make sure to consider your other options. With a 1580 SAT and top 2%, you have better offers coming soon! My son is at UMich, but he could have gone to Purdue, Illinois, UCSD or A&M. I’m sure he could have been happy and thrived at any of those outstanding engineering schools!
I completely understand the devastation though. For those asking if all these high stat auto admits are not getting their major, does that mean that non auto admit have zero chance, the answer to that is No, that is not the case. As we found out through our long appeal process last year, UT fills it’s engineering classes with 75% auto admits, so the other 25% come from non auto admits, OOS & international. My son had kids in his school who were not auto admit, some with lower test scores as well who got in for engineering. We wanted to understand why he did not get his major and others not in the top 6% with lower test scores did get into their 1st choice. What we found out is that even though UT could easily fill 100% of their spots in highly competitive majors with auto admits, they do not want to do that, so 25% of the spots are reserved for non auto admits, OOS/international, which leads to kids with near perfect test scores at the top of their class being denied their preferred major while others with not as stellar class ranks/scores do get their preferred major. It sucks if your kid is one of the ones affected, but the bottom line is that every year you hear about auto admit or high stat OOS kids being denied their major or denied admittance to UT, but getting into other more prestigious schools. I want to say last year there were some kids who didn’t get their major or didn’t get in at all from OOS who got into MIT and Yale.
Here is the math:
Last year there were over 57,000 applications for 8,400 spots (by law 90 % of those must go to Texas residents, so that is 8,400-840= 7560 total spots for Texas residents
of those 57,000, over 11,000 were automatic admits–so already there are more AUTOMATIC ADMITS than there are freshman spots.
Approximately half of those 11,000 AA accept admission, so there’s 5,500 spots filled solely from AA, which leaves about 2,000 spots for everyone else (not including OOS/international). Idk exactly how many of those 57,000 applications were OOS or international, but if you include both and subtract AA, that’s 46,000 applications for 2,900 spots. Now add to that that some majors are significantly more competitive than others, and it boils down to too many awesome kids/applicants for too few spots! That’s it. I truly, truly do not believe it is yield protection at all. I think it is simple math. Then, on top of all that, they want to keep the majors 75% AA, 25% non AA, OOS/international! I’m doing some of this on memory from last year. There was a good article about it that came out, but I cannot seem to find it. I know way more than I want to about this subject, but when your kid is one of the ones in the top 6% who worked their butt off specifically so they could be in top 6% and it still goes south on you, you want answers. Unfortunately, sometimes the answer is that life isn’t fair. BUT, it doesn’t mean there is not an amazing future (and, perhaps, a better college) ahead of you.
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It is a problem anyway. Agreed with your email. But this is the most disorganized and nonsense process at such a prestigious university, Life is MADE NOT fair by such a nonsense process. Life can be fair and it should be fair. When several students with excellent gpa, perfect sat, great ecs and esays get rejected (even non-auto admits in state) … that is not simple math…its something else. If the student is too good, they assume he/she will go somewhere else and reject, letting in others which they think they will enroll. This is not math, its illogical action that benefits the university.
As taxpayers, shouldn’t we be able to ask for more transparency? I can work with a specific date in which all decisions/rejections release by. I cannot work with a 3-4 month long wait+stress for decisions, acceptance or not. I honestly just want to know so I can move on, and start getting ready for the next step of my life
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Speaking of fairness, in my great state of California, a judge prohibits UC admissions from using standard test scores, in the name of being fair to some disabled students having difficulties taking SAT or ACT during COVID, and UC happily abided. Hence my son’s 1580 SAT wouldn’t help him with UC. You see different people have very different opinions about fairness. But I believe if you worked hard, life will eventually be “fair” to you, just not every step of it. The hard-working you will be better off than the not-so-hard-working you, and that much you have some control.
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As mentioned earlier, do you think UT is increasingly focused on Pell Grant recipients to both boost rankings and provide a boost to those in need?
Also, with apps apparently up a lot, does anyone envision a new AA cutoff of top 5% anytime soon?
I am auto admit, I applied to CNS with public health as my first choice and medical lab science as 2nd. Found out today that I was given liberal arts undeclared. UT is my top choice, and I would be interested in Health and Society (a Liberal Arts major) but have no clue how I would even go about getting it. I feel so discouraged, especially because I love Austin and UT seemed perfect. I can’t really see myself going elsewhere. Is there anything I can do? Appeal? Accept my major but transfer to CNS later?
I’m so sorry for all of the disappointment this evening, it is awful. Unfortunately, what people fail to see is that UT looks at more than GPA and test scores. What were the EC’s and will they serve the mission of the university and what major they want to study. My sons resume was 6 pages long, he worked hard during HS both making straight A’s with rigorous classes, 98% ACT and volunteering as well as working at a job. He spent a lot of time on his essays to communicate who he is. He doesn’t have any hooks so we knew it would be a challenge. As a result of this process, he got accepted to many other schools, some more prestigious than UT. I wish everyone best of luck and hopefully you will find a good fit for your college experience.
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