Thanks. Her sister is currently at TAMU. So thanks for clarifying the difference.
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Bio is a huge major but it’s pretty competitive. People do get undeclared for bio sometimes.
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DD applied August 24th, received EID on the 29th. However, she can’t apply for housing, so far as we can see.
When she goes here….
https:// utaustin.starrezhousing dot com/StarRezPortalX/
It takes her to the UT Service Desk page.
Is this because her application is not yet “complete” per the MyStatus page? (Awaiting transcript review and SAT score is what it says.)
Thanks for any help you can lend.
They dont necessarily need the SAT to open the housing portal but they must have the transcript in hand and time to process it. If you havent ordered it sent, do that right away. If you have already sent it, it typically takes a few days of lag time (during which you will get that familiar IT service desk screen) after getting the EID to process the transcript and then open the housing portal to you. But since people have been submitting apps since 8/1 but they only started ramping up and handing out EIDs since end of August it might take a bit longer to dig out of the pile of apps that has accumulated.
Is it bad if I wait till october to apply?
I wouldnt say bad. In the last cycle they did selection a bit differently and divided everyone up for dorm selection at different times over just 4 days (they only used 2 Thursdays and Fridays this past cycle because many were in orientation Mon-Wed in June and maybe they felt TH-F was more fair to those who couldnt get to their computers in orientation). I know those who reported doing their housing application in Aug-Sept got the 1st day selection. October got the 2nd day. There were still a good number of open beds in most dorms on the 2nd day. The suite bathrooms in Jester were all gone on the first day though and we have a friend who wanted San Jac but he was pulling in a roommate and they couldnt find a room with 2 open beds in it in San Jac on day 2 so they had to go to Duran. But then another friend scooped up a San Jac room (by himself, random roommate) the 3rd day. If you had your heart set on having your choice of dorm - especially if you will be doing the selecting for both you and a roommate - I would try to get the application done midSeptember for a 1st day pick (assuming UT does it the same as last cycle, as I said they changed it up to a 4 day process and they could change it again next cycle). For actually getting into UT, I dont think EA and the October 15 deadline matters that much, they deferred 95% of EA applicants last cycle (their 1st true year with an EA cycle). If your guidance counselors are making you wait until some arbitrary date where they are done dealing with beginning of year stuff, I would bring them a giant box of doughnuts or bagels and sit down and explain housing at the top 2 universities in Texas and say pretty-please can we send the transcript today.