International students, is the portal changing for y’all asw?
The old dashboard page gives an error 500: Sign in with your UT EID - Stale Request
RIS, WIO gives new page asw.
I think they’re uploading decisions RN. Anyone seeing a deposit, or has access to RIS? Can anyone access the old dashboard link and see their major?
i can access the old dashboard till now, but no changes in WIO/RIS
anyone else seeing changes?
Are you in state? My sons looks completely the same, he is in-state though.
No i am OOS, r u also not able to access?
My son is in-state and I can still access everything, but nothing has changed.
anyone else noticing any changes?
No there is no merit money associated with being in the honors program. UT is known for not giving much at all in merit as they know it is a good deal for the costs as it is (at least in state tuition).
Intl students,
guys can you send screenshots of what you see when you click the above links asw?
Old Dashboard - Sign in with your UT EID - Stale Request
Actually UT is more expensive than comparable schools for In State tuition. Places like Florida, Georgia/Georgia Tech, and UNC not only are cheaper but they have tons of scholarships for In State students based on merit. Many In State students who can get into UGA or GT for instance get Zell Miller scholarships for free tuition. Texas (and A&M) put virtually off their money in Needs based with a small number of merit scholarships.
Considering Texas has a $45 Billion Endowment and A&M has a $20 Billion Endowment (#1 and 2 among all Public Universities) it’s ridiculous that tuition is as high as it is for In State students with so little merit.
Did UT ever give us a big merit award? Nope. But through other state mandated merit, tuition exemptions, and the amount of research money made available to make getting a graduate degree free where you get a monthly stipend too, after 4 degrees at UT they will have paid us more than we paid them. Opportunities are out there. They just dont come in the form of larger merit dollars.
Graduate level is a completely different ballgame. I’m talking about Undergrad Merit scholarships and tuition. Overwhelmingly most UT Undergrads are paying full price at an inflated rate compared to other states with no merit. For a Flagship with a $45 Billion Endowment that is swimming in cash that’s disappointing.
UT has 42k Undergrads with 10% OOS and a tuition waver for anyone with parents making under $100k which is likely another 10% (probably higher). OOS students can pay full tuition as they never paid taxes in Texas and it is subsidized by the taxpayers in Texas. So let’s assume that’s 33k students. Tuition is about $11,600 (varies based on hours a bit). So that’s about $380 million a year. That’s a big number until you remember that’s easily done with interest off the endowment and it’s not much more than the Athletic budget. Of course maybe you just reduce it by half or just offer a lot more merit. UT should be much more affordable with the resources, donors, and state support it receives for In State students. The fact it isn’t (same with A&M) is why so many of our best students in Texas leave to go elsewhere that will gladly throw money at them.
Of course it is different but how a university chooses to spread $ around applies to it as a whole. As a whole, it chooses to prioritize need based aid WAY more (families under 100K now free) and sends a ton of money to graduate research as merit/paid RA positions. They just dont choose to prioritize much in merit for in-state. There are many flagships that are cheaper of course. Alabama comes to mind - mine could’ve gone there for less than full instate in Texas with the merit offered but the program is no where near as good. Georgia Tech is more expensive in-state but offers more merit opportunities to undergrad where UT probably focuses on graduates. Their choice. I wish they would spend more on merit for undergrad and less on need based but I can wish all I want, it wont happen.
We submitted FAFSA over a month ago, but UT still says pending. Anyone else too?
Are you sure it doesnt say 2024-2025 pending? Because that is last year’s and since you didnt fill out last year’s, it would be still technically be pending. They havent loaded the one for our kids yet (2025-2026) that I have seen.
No change in portal except one msg reminding to fill fafsa application
Is it possible to be rejected and then have your decision changed?
I have a friend who was rejected a week ago with the 2nd lowest gpa of those applied, but they got a notification that their portal changed and they got accepted (OOS, science) in the last couple of days..
Wondering if that’s possible – or if you can appeal.
Where did u see this msg?
Ut direct
Agree, it is tough knowing that our kids would be getting significant merit at the other state schools but getting nothing at these two. Not sure if it’s true, but people say that UT and TAMU don’t give much merit because they don’t have to entice high scoring students to attend like the other state schools do, but seems like the flagships in the other states you mentioned give merit and imagine they get plenty of applicants as well?
Did anyone notice any change to the admissions tab of old dashboard?
