Same last year they offered 19000 spots thinking the yield rate was about 50% and i believe that is where it came in at - just around 9000 accepted their offers
It most likely (hopefully) wont. If they make semifinalist there is a very immediate zoom interview, if they make finalist weekend that is typically end of February/beginning of March which would be after the 2/15 date.
Your reading is what UT said.
So we can speculate that more than 50% is read, but they only admitted 25-30% and UT can finish reading the whole pool by 2/15, otherwise UT has to apply some proof reading technique, and when that happens, GPA and SAT stats may trump EC, only UT knows the truth though.
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Same boat. Deferred UGA and waiting on UT. I just don’t understand why they won’t accept fall grades?
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I don’t agree with you either. It is abundantly clear that what has happened is an anomaly and NOT what the University planned to do. They were overwhelmed and basically said so in their initial response but people didn’t understand— they wanted a name for what they/their child received— and so, the admissions office CHANGED the wording to ‘deferral.’ This tells you that what happened was not a typical deferral.
That, combined with the sheer number of these “deferrals” (the UT admissions guy estimates 95% of EA applicants got this notification) indicates something went wrong. Why you are so dedicated to defending the admissions office, I can’t know but it seems that is your default.
Kids expected one thing, did their job of getting things in on time for EA and were disappointed that Admissions didn’t do theirs. That’s the bottom line.
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It would be great if UT allowed submission of 1st semester grades but the university is having difficulty processing 90k as it is. I imagine looking at more information will just delay getting results on February 15th.
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Seems to me, that’s their problem. The students worked hard this Fall and should be able to upload info to prove it.
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I don’t think that fall grades matters.
They can not use that unless they ask for fall grades from every applicant, I get that you think it improves your student’s chances, but in reality it seldom does, even if UT takes a look.
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They don’t have time to look at the applications as is. Don’t add another variable. Then they’ll make us wait until April.
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I am of the other opinion, upload what you want. They look at it they look at it, they dont they dont. Mine uploaded an updated resume (5 months after the initial sent 8/1/24). Saw it upload in the documents. Then 40 acres wanted an updated resume and it had a bit more stuff again so we did that. If anything the honors AOs will see it if your student applied for honors.
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My daughter, OOS McCoombs, was deferred and her honors still says, “in review”
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If doing so can bring piece, do it by all means.
My daughter’s still says “IN REVIEW”
We got the same response from UGA as you: deferred. But I do feel like they just ran out of time. They had an even earlier decision date. There was no way they were reading all of those by December!
They were only “ineligible” for a day and changed back to “In Review” the following day. It appears it was an error. Best of luck.
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Just saw a post from USC admissions on how they got 42000 EA apps (still counting RD apps), accepted 3500, rejected none, and all others were deferred and have to submit a form to have their EA app to the RD pile. And they mentioned delays due to the fires in CA. Maybe this is how the EA process works??? Or a “new norm”??? I know UT got a lot of bad press in this new method this year, only have 1 child so the process is totally alien to me. Glad I do not have to weather it again!
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hi (oos neuro, applied to polymath and plan ii) still says in-review!
Fingers crossed for you! Waiting is the worst but hopefully it will turn out like it is supposed to.
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My high stats OOS kid (1500+ SAT, 4.75 UW, excellent ECs with leadership roles & strong essays) was admitted to USC Marshall on 1/17 but was “delayed/deferred” at UT McCombs on 1/15. He did not receive any Forty Acres invitations either. Given these data points, we can only surmise that: 1) UT did not read through all applications; 2) UT had poor control over their process to allow the RD stream to send out admission while their EA batch was not complete; 3) They will lose top applicants who applied ED2 elsewhere who may have withdrawn from their ED2 schools in order to attend UT but will now be unable to accept UT’s admission offer given the delay; and 4) This year’s yield will fluctuate due to this debacle and hence they may have too few or too many in the Freshman class.
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Hey. My d had same situation last year, as did a ton of forty acres potentials. She ended up getting accepted ( but did not become a 40 acres scholar). I can’t promise anything, but from our discussions last year, every forty acres semi finalist and finalist got accepted and to their major. Good luck!