Was she an AA or non-auto? It seems from forum that plan II notifications this afternoon are students admitted to another major fall-Dec. Curious if any non-auto admits who weren’t accepted yet have heard?
Congratulations! Is you son an AA?
That has nothing to do with your students admission decision and it is likely there for every single applicant who clicks to view their CASH portal. Admitted students who go through the enrollment process are able to upgrade their EID in order to do specific things.
I cannot see anything with the CASH though.
I just don’t understand why they would give all applicants access to that. Some other Non Auto’s don’t have access to CASH at all.
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It may be a good sign as most non-AA can’t access it.
My son is a non AA and has not heard on Plan II yet.
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@CuriousGeorgeTX i think it means something. my CASH portal doesnt have a prompt saying to uprgrade UT EID. I think UTgrad25 is right.
What is the upgraded EID for?
I was admitted in December and what it seemed like to me was that you only get that message if you are admitted. The upgraded EID is used for everything after you are admitted and you should not receive that prompt until you have been admitted.
Edit: Once admitted, it will appear under you “Required” things to do.
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Access to the CASH portal/seeing the upgraded EID could also mean the FAFSA was received and processed which is something that not applicants do lol guess you’ll know for sure when decisions more decisions roll out this weekend (my assumption).
Did you complete the FAFSA?
My OOS child has not heard anything yet whereas other kids in our area (different school) have heard with lower stats. Based on what I’m reading sounds like we should be a bit worried. I’m not understanding this whole process and why the different waves. My child is 2/570 with 4.0 unweighted 5.5 weighted GPA. Many EC along with SAT score. We didn’t think Texas would be a reach but starting to wonder. Am I alone is stressing?
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Texas is a reach OOS for almost anyone, similar to UNC, UVA, etc. (selective flagships with limited OOS enrollment).
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While the upgrade EID is not in my son’s Cash portal, the "upgrade my UT EID is publically available - on myUT below the header “computing and technology” (found on the right side of the page) then click on “UT EID Self Service Tools” and hten “UpGrade MY UT EID”
So maybe it appearing in a different portal is a good sign, but it seems all applicants have it somewhere. Seriously unlikely my son is going to get in (OOS) so if we have it, probably not a sign.
No you are not alone OOS stressing for my daughter also
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I don’t think I would be as stressed if there was no a first wave with OOS already. This process feels worse then when I did it a few years ago with my older child. Why do schools make it worse by these random waves?
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Me too
I’ve done this before with my two older daughters and I’d agree with you that the process this time around stinks. I hope there are AOs reading these forums because they need to come up with a better way.
I had to talk my senior daughter through many tears last night. The amount of stress these kids are under is overwhelming. Moreso than your typical year. These kids are already having to deal with a pandemic, not seeing friends at school, not having a real senior year, tired of schooling from home, then add to that applying to schools and hearing sporadically that some people are admitted and some people not, oh and that their dream school has now gotten over 20K+ applications over the previous year so chances of them being admitted are even smaller. They’re being asked to make a huge decision without even being able to visit schools. The way they’ve managed it is insensitive in my opinion. Stick to specific days they’ll announce releases so no one is having to check a portal 10x a day.
I don’t usually complain about the process, I get it, it’s extremely complicated, but this year is different on so many levels. They should have prepared for it knowing we’d still be in a pandemic throughout the entire admission season. I just want it to be over. Then my daughter can sit down and consider her options. The unknown is too stressful.
I’m sorry for the rant but these kids have been through enough. My heart aches for them. It shouldn’t be this hard.
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You spoke everything that my family is feeling!!! 
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