as far as I know, per Texas law, each school must rank top 10% no matter they’re a ranking or non-ranking school
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My daughter was admitted without a class rank. Different major though. Also OOS.
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The admission process can be quite subjective. In a YouTube video by a UM student, his application got reviewed by three persons. On each item, the three guys scored him very differently. One guy really liked him, gave him 4.5 for most part, but he got around 3.0 for everything from another reviewer. The third person was in the middle. Luck plays a big role here.
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what are those most ‘competitive’ majors in UT by the way? I only know CS is competitive and they accept about 500 per year.
Nursing is also competitive with only selecting about 100 people. Hopefully with the more applications the more acceptances. I know it doesn’t work like that but if you really think about it ut is called a “ivy league public school” for a reason
Is EE more competitive than ME ?
Yes
That’s great !!! Glad he ended up in the right place !
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Yes my daughter is a ChemE freshman at UT . She didn’t get into her major until April !
She did not get her first or second choice originally , moved on, didn’t appeal , committed to Purdue . For various reasons she chose UT over Purdue but I know most kids have moved on and don’t come back to UT if that late .
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How did she get Chemical if she didn’t appeal? What was she offered initially after not giving her first or second choice?
She was not auto admit , she was offered CAP originally. She was 8% in her class.
It happened for several engineering kids that were either capped or not offered original major choices , they got offered spots out of the blue even if they did not appeal ( albeit really late ) in several engineering tracks .
Also a lot of appeals seemed to be successful last year . Of course this year is totally different so who knows , but I would say appeal if you don’t get your major , the worst they can say is no .
We were quite shocked to say the least , it was April !
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Thanks for sharing the information.
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True that civil and mechanical very different. He did know a kid who got randomly put into petroleum. Apparently civil and petroleum are the least popular engineering majors because that happened to a couple automatic admits we know. My son was still considering UT even as a civil engineering major (with the plan to try to change), but he would never have done petroleum. But after we researched the odds of transferring to ME from civil, it became clear he probably just needed to go elsewhere. Such a shame since the reason he worked so hard throughout high school was to be in top 6% so he could control his own destiny(or so we thought! The best laid plans, right?). Nevertheless, he ended up at a great school, and most kids will find some place they love even if it isn’t what they originally imagined. It is also a puzzle to me how UMich can offer 100% of their college of engineering students their 1st choice major—which, at Michigan, includes computer science, but UT cannot do so. I don’t understand that. Michigan has figured out a way to give ALL COE students their 1st choice major. You don’t have to have a 4.0, you don’t have to jump through hoops, if you want Computer science, you get CS. If you want ME or EE or Aerospace, you get it! Period. They have said that in the future, that might not ALWAYS be the case, but, as of now and all preceding years, you could get ANY engineering major you wanted if you are in the COE. So, why can’t UT do the same, or, at least, make more room in the Uber-popular majors? It’s not because Michigan has more money. It is truly a mystery to me.
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I saw that video! Very interesting!
Yes! This is true because I was SO MAD to see people offered engineering majors who did not even appeal (or originally get in) when my automatic admit son appealed twice and his appeals were denied. It made my husband so mad that he basically told my son NOT to go to UT! 
He was lobbying for Illinois or Purdue (that was before he found out about Michigan)! Not saying anything about your daughter! It’s definitely not HER fault the way admission work. I wasn’t mad at the students who were offered this deal, I was mad at UT!! But I can definitely confirm this random out of the blue acceptance without appeal happened for engineering last year!!
I totally understand…I have been following UT College Confidential for a few years and had never heard of that happening … until it happened to my daughter . I completely understand your frustration!
UT was always her first choice , but we knew without auto admission it was a long shot. Her hs school was super competitive , she was a strong candidate otherwise ( 13 APs, high SAT ) but without that magical 6% it’s so hard ( and heck , even sometimes even if you are top 6% apparently ).
She got into School of Mines , Northeastern, Purdue , a few others , she had some great choices but her heart bled orange.
But U of Michigan is amazing and in a class of its own ! And so much of the admissions of UT is frustrating and not transparent… and of course I have another daughter who is a junior in hs who loves UT so here we go again …
Isn’t the cost of studying at Michigan is way higher than at UT? I can’t afford to send my son out-of-state.
I hope that didn’t come off as those kids were not deserving! That’s not what I meant! Your daughter got into Purdue, so she is obviously extremely impressive! UT has WAY more qualified students than spots, and your desired major and the timing, etc. all has to work out. Perhaps if my son had been going for a different engineering major, his appeal would have been successful, or maybe he just didn’t fit what they were looking for in his particular major. Who knows exactly what they are looking for? Many, many extremely smart, capable, qualified students get rejected from schools where they could have excelled every year. It’s a frustrating, sometimes random, process with often puzzling outcomes, but it will all work out.
Lots of kids think it’s the end of the world when that rejection of their 1st choice major (for an AA) comes, or CAP offer (for nonAA), but both of our kids show that even those seemingly negative outcomes can still turn out very positive in the end. I meant no disrespect to your daughter or any other student who was offered engineering without appeal—it was just frustrating for me as a parent of an AA student who was desperately trying to appeal. I hope that makes sense. After I reread what I wrote saying I was mad, I wanted to clarify that I know lots of kids who are not AA (including one of my daughters this year who has already been admitted) are just as qualified and deserving of admittance. My frustration was the fact that my son was appealing and getting denied when we started seeing people say, “I didn’t even appeal and I was sent an email offering me a spot in the college of engineering!” We were frustrated by the process and the university, not the students who were understandably thrilled.
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Thank you , but no worries at all. I did not think for a minute that you were saying she or any other student wasn’t deserving !
I only explained my daughter’s background to show why we always felt it was long shot for UT since she was not aa , despite everything else going for her.
And I completely understand your frustration ! And I am sure so many times it comes down to number of applicants for each major in any given year .
Whew! I’m glad you get it. I cringed at myself after I reread my post! Sometimes tone is missing from these type of posts and it comes across in a way you did not intend! Funnily enough, my nonAA daughter who got into UT in December found out last week that she got into Purdue, and she is extremely torn right now. Purdue has a very unique program for what she wants to study, and it offers something that UT does not. She is considering Purdue very seriously. Of course, my husband said, we should go to campus right now so she can understand the weather (which is probably similar to Michigan’s weather right now)! That could tip the balance back in favor of UT (and in-state tuition for us as we will soon have 3 kids in college)! Another reason my son not getting his major at UT was so frustrating! And yes to bp2021 who was asking about tuition in Michigan. OOS tuition at UMich is outrageous and ridiculous and just about as expensive as you can get even for a private school, so that’s a downside. Michigan residents (just like Texas residents at UT are getting an awesome bargain, but OOS people are paying through the nose!).
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