Look up in the thread, where the admissions consultant specifies what happened last year. It says the majority of decisions for everyone was released end of January, with mention of only one small wave prior. Not sure where this storyline of what UT “usually” does has developed. 2022 was different, which only goes to show there is no “usual.”
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Most in our HS (in-state TX) found out around the same time last year (accepts and rejects) - at the end of the month. Huge amount of rejects unless you were top 6%.
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That’s understandable. It is competitive. But I don’t think it’s accurate to say usually most of the acceptances go out earlier in January.
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Our school had 4 students admitted OOS last year (2023) and all 4 got accepted the last week of January not prior. So the idea that only rejections go out the last week of January is not historically accurate as of last year.
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I agree that this is not accurate to say that. Only relatively small number of students get accepted prior to late January. Most (not all) decisions (accepts and rejects) are released on the last Friday in January. As the acceptance rate is low at UT, there are obviously more rejects that accepts. All the kids from our high school last year got accepted at the end of January.
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Indeed. So anyone freaking out over the statement that the longer into January before you hear inversely correlates with admissions… take a deep breath. An anonymous hs senior on a message board does not have inside divination to the process.
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Whoa, hold on! So you are saying whatever I read on the internet cannot be trusted?!
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You don’t have to believe me, but that is what the facts from the UT admissions expert website indicates based on the past 4 years of data. It also just makes logical sense. Every decision release that goes by that you are not in lowers your chance of getting in since you are getting closer and closer to the reject release.
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Last year didn’t have waves, per the UT admission advisor blog, and there are Texas residents on here who stated an entirely different scenario. Plenty of reason not to speculate what “generally” or “usually” happens.
And any large wave of releases will be overwhelmingly rejected. Because, math.
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I believe this is the expert some are citing. He admits they have no set pattern or publicly predictable plan year over year.
Good luck to everybody, but unless we start seeing a “wave” and its outcome, everything is speculation.
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It is mathematically possible that both the highest number of rejections and the highest number of acceptances happen the same day or same week.
Example
60,000 applicants
18,000 admitted
Let’s say 8,000 were admitted before the last week of January. That means 42,000 are rejected that week and 10,000 get in that week. Still mostly rejections but also the largest number of acceptances.
Both things can be true.
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Agreed. But the point here was this statement doesn’t hold water, given UT itself changes its acceptance protocol each year, nor mathematically on many scenarios like yours. And for that first wave you hypothesize, those not accepted aren’t rejected, while those admitted are actually taken out of the denominator.
8000/60000 = 13.3%
10000/52000 = 19.2%
Point is… can’t make the assertion that a longer wait time is based in lower likelihood of acceptance. We are all speculating.
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Has anyone checked??
nothing for me hahaha
Nothing here
Same
did anyone else get anything else
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Nothing yet
Nothing yet but the portal seems slow
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