OOS Accepted- Physical Culture and Sports- Pre Sport Management in School of Education
Does anyone know anything about this program? pros/cons- weak/strong, etc.
Searching for info on this program which is limited online. Any info would be helpful.
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Sorry to hear about your son and his friends. What was your son’s 1st choice for major? The friends with lower stats applied to same major and got accepted?
McCombs. One girl even has her own business with good revenue. The process is lack of transparency and very frustrating. Thanks for understanding. Just having a hard time here.
I’m sorry for all of the CAPing disappointment, it is such a crazy year. I don’t think that you will likely ever get a satisfactory ‘why’ answer, it’s the very frustrating nature of the beast.
For anyone who still really wants to be a longhorn, I’d spend a few minutes filing an appeal, with any update kind of information you can scrape together, and then put it out of your mind. It is a very very long shot, but crazy things have happened in the last two cycles.
I hope your S can quickly turn his focus to the exciting things about some of his other awesome college options.
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I thought TAMU’s PSA was equivalent to CAP, while TAMU’s Blinn is equivalent to PACE. Maybe I misunderstood. My daughter got CAP at UT yesterday and was waitlisted at TAMU last week (also on list for Blinn consideration). This has been a VERY competitive application season. Most selective colleges received at least 20% more applications than last year. Colgate University, a selective college in NY, had a 103% increase in applications!
did he apply separately or he is national merit semifinalist?
yes you are right!
you can appeal only if there is something new in your daughter/son case. like a mistake in class rank/scores. not just appeal their decision is my understanding.
UT looks at socio-economic status, adversary, and other hidden factors. You could have 2 amazing students, both with great essays and ec’s. One person may have a 3.6 gpa and a 1400 sat compared to a person with a 4.0 and a 1530 sat. The person with the 3.6 may have had to go through hardship, got these scores living in poverty, or may offer amazing perspectives in their essay and short answers the other person didnt. I asked a person on reddit who got in with low stats non-auto to read her essay. She let me and it was amazing. I felt like i got to know who she was since she was young to now and what she believes in and what she wants to peruse. UT does not let random people into their school, low grades or high. I just think this year there was wayyyy to many applicants than UT can accept. 75 percent of UT is auto admit making admission into anything highly competitive. No student is at fault, people with amazing stats and worked hard, your work will not go unappreciated! Hopefully other colleges offer you amazing aid and admissions, better than what UT can offer
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my friend who got capped from UT will attend Baylor with a full ride academic scholarship, will only cost her 10k a year for housing. Way better deal if you ask me as compared to UT, she would have probably only received loans
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national merit semifinalist
THIS! I understand that parents are upset for their kids, but people need to stop putting other students down. Every student is so unique and there is a near-infinite number of factors that go into admissions. Every student who applied to UT worked their butt off, so we shouldn’t go around trying to say “so-and-so had lower scores than so-and-so but still got in.”
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@CollegeYaYa Your equivalencies for respective prog offers are correct.
PSA at TAMU = CAP at UT and Blinn Team at TAMU = PACE at UT
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Another Frisco parent here . I think for any department other than liberal arts , after 1st year you would just be applying as a transfer student with all other transfer students from other colleges. In other words , no advantage for doing CAP .
My advice would probably be skip CAP , start engineering at another school , if they still want UT then do great first year and apply as a transfer student to UT engineering.
I think the accepted transfers for engineering/ business at UT are really low so it is a risk … so have a solid plan b .
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Thank you. My son got CAP but isn’t interested b/c he wants computer science. He got into some other great universities so he’ll go to one of those. I’m guessing CAP students have a dream of going to UT. We live in Austin so my son actually wants to leave home. 
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Couldn’t agree more.
Just curious…any guess on why there’s so many more application this year everywhere esp UT? Is it because there’s more students this year or is there other reasons?
Well, I would respectfully disagree, if a “near-infinite number of factors” go into the admission decision then it cannot be called an “admission process” it should be called an “admission lottery”.
I think because UT Austin is a public university they should be far more transparent about their admission process than they are at the moment. They can learn a LOT from other public universities. It is one thing to lose out in a competition, it is totally another thing when the rules of the game are non-existent. Even if the rule itself is unfair but if it is articulated through a quantitative (measurable) language, the “process” will look better.
Callin out the UT Admissions office on this is not synonymous with dissing on admitted students.
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No public university at or near UT’s caliber has a purely quantitative admissions policy. There are plenty of low ranked schools that look at just stats. If you want certainty, apply to those. If you want a school like UT and aren’t auto admit, submit a strong application and hope for the best.
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I think there are multiple reasons, but the primary one is the ‘test optional’ policies for this year. Students who would otherwise not be competitive applying to schools like UT (great grades but mediocre scores) decided to apply Test Optional. Selective schools have seen huge increases in apps, whereas nonselective schools have not, so that would support TO as a reason for the increase. Also, with so much uncertainly, it’s possible kids are applying to more schools than usual this year (which ironically has probably added to the craziness and uncertainty).