Every year, there are a great many non-auto students who are rejected by UT but who are accepted in to other highly competitive schools and Ivies. That alone is not unusual for UT. Odds for any non-auto being admitted, even stellar applicants, is low.
There are a lot of theories floating around out there why jan 15 happened as it did with all the deferrals, but none of us really knows.
100% agree with you! The only certainty imho is UT will break another record next year wrt to application numbers (probably exceed 100k I bet) and the odds for oos/intl will sink even further to single digit ivy-type odds for even the most elite-ly qualified applicants.
I think they read the EA apps. I think they applied a USC type EA process (who offered to a very conservative 3500 out of 42000 EA applicants). Because UT splits their apps up (according to TexAdmssions Guy) into 3 piles: autos, nonauto Texans, everyone else and then evaluates by major too it is possible some of those piles finished EA and moved on to RD and those may have been the ones seen (lots of nonautos it seemed to me). Bad form not to hold back on offering those RDs but it is the first year of the “new process”. Look how the “new process” for the FAFSA went last year.
UT has so many strong OOS applicants, I dont think it’ll make much of a difference if kids go elsewhere.
Last year, a kid from our HS had a 1590, 4.0 UW, leadership, awards, etc was rejected by UT McCombs.
Business, CS, and engineering are extremely competitive.
Did she get into semi finalist round, if may I ask you. Just checking since getting an invite wont guarantee admission, rght ?
Dont forget nursing (crazy hard to get into), architecture, and some CNS majors (other than CS which has been ridiculously hard to get for years) are going that way too.
You could be right— but they handled it so much better!
GM All - I’m still kind of lost, maybe someone can help shed some light.
Daughter’s notification also said a decision will be released Feb 15th.
She’s auto-admit (Top 4%, Varsity Cheer Captain, 100+ volunteer hours, NCL, AP Scholar): how do you defer an auto-admit (I’m sure there are plenty of kids who are in the same boat). This is our first time going through this and I think it’s a mess.
I don’t think anyone can give you light. Watch the video posted above from texadmissions and understand that she is not alone in this decision. Take solace in the fact that she will be ADMITTED to a top school (in some major). She will get an email that says Class of 29 admit and she will get a sign from UT with her admittance. I She has a place to go in August, and if she doesn’t like her major, she can transfer around, quite possibly to her intended major (yes, it happens a lot!). Focus on the fact that all of these things are coming (soon) and you will deal with the major decision, whatever it is, but it is not the end of the world.
Thank you for your insight!
I’ll wait until Feb 15th to see what major she’ll get into (she applied to McCombs as her 1st choice). Good luck to all!!
My thought is they have to many auto admits this year and they are trying to weed out students who will choose a Ivy league school or has to make an ED decision. Most auto have not gotten their decision and were deferred, this is the conclusion I have come to. My son is applying to a competitive major and thankfully he has other offers he can take if UT Austin does not admit him into his major.
Yeah both the sal and val in our district - both will be nmsf - CS and engineering, both deferred. Those super super competitive programs engineering, business, CS, nursing, I bet they probably just couldn’t offer many (if any auto Texans at all) until they have all the auto admit from the RD pile evaluated (after promising EA and RD had no advantage over each other) to see which as one big group which get their majors and which get undeclared cola.
Fingers crossed for you!
McCombs and CS are highly sought after along with some other majors in UT due to in-state tuition and ranking.
Deferral is due to these majors, simply too many apps.
As time goes by, I am more and more against hefty OOS tuitions, son applied CS, if UT is cocky and does not like his profile, I am thinking to go with TAMU and not 90k CMU or 80k UC even if he gets in, we do not qualify for any fin aid and I don’t think he can get a good scholarship that may offset the cost.
Just wait it out.
deferring sal and val is totally nonsense even if those kids may choose to go for Ivies later.
UT AOs are too much of themselves, unfortunately that is just life.
Auto admit only means to be admitted to the university but not to your major. Every year they have more auto admits that what they can place in the desired majors and that is why, many end up being accepted in COLA (that is known as the “soft rejection”). It has been like that for years but usually it is a big surprise for the students and parents doing this process for the first time. For the ones that already went through this before, we know that everything may happen even with great stats and even if you are auto admit. Good luck to everybody still waiting.
I wonder how UT determines if it will offer autos their 2nd choice major versus undeclared COLA?
I wonder how many autos end up taking COLA offer, to me, again, that is a waste if not nonsense.
I don’t know. But I’ve never known a McCombs auto admit who didn’t get Econ as a second choice major. I’m sure it happens, but in my opinion, that’s one of the reasons this process has ground to a halt. They have got to get these auto admits placed so they can figure out if there is any room in these second choice majors that are about to get filled up too.
I disagree that it is a waste. I know many people who have tranferred out of COLA. One transferred to Natural Sciences. 5+ transferred to McCombs. Some stayed in COLA by their own choice because they felt their opportunities were still good. Unless you are Comp Sci or Engineering, I don’t think this is the tragedy some make it out to be.
yes, what you said makes sense for some.
It is something UT has to offer for autos to apply with state legislation or whatever, I prefer to see that UT does something to admit a bit more autos into their desired majors though.
Does anyone know how competitive liberal arts majors are. I applied behavioral social data science which is a new liberal arts major and I was looking for guidance.