- UT Austin never said a certain number or percentage would be accepted in the Early round. This is all an internet fantasy and a manufactured pseudoreason for frustrated parents to act upset.
- Texas Admissions Guy is a former employee. I will leave it at that.
- Michigan uses the word ‘postponed’ instead of ‘deferred’ and, somehow, people psychologically manage to keep themselves from having an internet freakout about it.
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Michigan gives postponed applicants the option to submit midterm grades and an expression of continued interest letter. That gives applicants an actionable item. It also gives gives applicants the impression that their application was read and competitive enough to keep in the pool, but Michigan wants to know what the applicant has done since submitting EA that would tip the scale (grades, ECs, awards). Michigan also denies some applicants during EA so not a blanket deferral. Different approach than UT where the perception is they ran out of time to read apps so deferred many.
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Texas never made a promise to consider midterm grades. Texas never made a promise to deny some applicants during the EA round. Texas can use different terms than Michigan or other schools. NONE OF THIS means Texas has done anything unethical or against their commitments.
If Texas doesn’t follow through on their announced 2/15 decision date, I will be the first to say they messed up. Until they actually do something that goes against what they have promised, this bizarre internet echo chamber of nonsense needs to stop.
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Did anyone from engineering received acceptance on 01/15?
I’ve seen a few post they got into ECE but that’s it.
No they’re having the same Internet freakout over there too. LOL
UT Austin failed to properly communicate to set all applicants’ expectations. Had they emailed all applicants their most recent email explaining the different status BEFORE the 1/15 notification, less applicants would be upset. Most upsetting is that UT accepted RD applicants while most EA applicants are delayed/deferred. Lastly, changing the “we need more time to evaluate” text to include “deferred” in their message the next day caused more anxiety that not all apps were read and assessed equally. Even if UMich & UT Austin had the same assessment process in the back-end, UMich wins in their execution and communication. There is no anger but just resignation for those “postponed” from UMich.
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I agree with what you’re saying. I think it also helps that UMICH has been doing it like this for some time. When you apply EA to UMICH everyone understands that the majority of kids are deferred into RD (particularly the OOS.) That’s been an expectation. Also, if UT had been like "we will be doing admissions closer to the way that USC and UMICH do them, everyone would have understood the potential for the large deferral rate. I bet their communication is better next year. First year bumps.
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Any thoughts on decisions coming before Sat, 2/15 (maybe Friday, 2/14)?
On one hand, historically, weekdays have been their modus operandi, but on the other hand they are probably feeling the weight of people scrutinizing them for exactly how everything is worded they might just execute the RD exactly as shown in the current description (although for those who read things like lawyers the current description said BY 2/15). I gotta go with 50-50 odds they either drop it on 2/15 OR do 2 sets of Friday waves 2/7 and 2/14 so the computer system doesnt have a meltdown doing a record number in one day.
i want to see a wave tomorrow 2/5
Good points. Have there been any verified admits since 1/15 to support waves?
Let’s hope for some more information soon. These poor kids
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I have seen none after 1/15 (except for the one rage-bait post or two you find on reddit where they immediately call it out based on poster history and lack of screenshot). Only honors decisions posted since 1/15.
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My DD applied for two honors programs at UT Austin. This morning, one states ineligible. She easily has the GPA and SAT, but should she take this to mean that she did not get into that particular major? It is the Honors for her first choice major.
Hard to tell without more info - like I know you cannot be in more than one cns honors program (deans, hss, polymathic) so if you applied for 2 (not even sure the system would let you do that though) and they felt 1 might be better but were still in review for the other that could trigger an ineligible for the other one (that is a guess of course seeing how their computer systems seem to work). Maybe similar if you got into an honors major like Plan 2 (but it doesnt show til RD decision day) that might trigger an ineligible for the other one also applied for.
I think it could be equal chance a good thing as not a good thing. Sorry you are in limbo wondering though.
You can also get into the major, but not the honors program for it. So much of what they do is not based on gpa/rank/sat. Fit to Major is a conundrum but they seem to hold it above everything else holistically.
It could be another glitch. But if her first choice major is a high demand major, then it does not sound good. Makes me mad that UT rolls things out like this. And if she does get it, it was unnecessarily stressful.
Fit to major is a joke, what do those AOs know, fit to AO flavor is more like it.
lots of stuff to make you wonder.
Just wait for 2/15, don’t beat yourself up on guessing.
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