When are UT Austin “early admissions” results expected? Jan 15th 2026? OR, any delays already announced?
Is UT Austin in the top 20 or top 30 universities/colleges for Premed courses?
To my knowledge they dont rank courses. They rank majors and universities as a whole. Premed is not a major. It is a set of required courses, well hopefully required, since there is no universal set of required courses (or accepted credits) among MD and DO programs in the US…just a best guess based on where you think you might apply. UT is a top 25 feeder school for US medical schools and I believe #1 feeder school to TX medical schools.
I havent heard of any delays. The fine print in the admissions timeline website says a decision “by 1/15 for EA” and “by 2/15 for RD.” It could be a few days early in February at least since 2/15 is a Sunday.
Last cycle it was EA on 1/15 where 5% got admitted and 95% got deferred. Then the RD decisions came out a few days ahead of 2/15…they did announce that with an email beforehand.
Will they do the same this year? You never know. Last year was the first official EA cycle so there is no history to use to guess.
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Premed is not a major. It is a set of requirement courses to gain acceptance into medical school (and each med school has slightly different requirements from one another so it can be a bit of a guess).
As far as which university is better Baylor or UT-Austin there is no set of facts to say one way or another. Go to the school which has the “vibe” that best meshes with your student and their learning style but one that won’t put them in the poor house.
You might get more 1 on 1 attention at Baylor and smaller more personal classes in the first 2 years but that comes with an extremely different cost tuition-wise than UT.
UT-Austin is the top feeder school to Texas medical schools and has opportunities for research even as freshmen and nearby access to physician shadowing opportunities to help make their med school applications competitive. But it is way harder to get into UT than Baylor especially for impacted majors.
My LH thrives in the “sink or swim” competitive large school atmosphere at UT and is soaking up all the city has to offer. He was offered the highest level Presidential Level scholarship of 120k for 4 years at Baylor but that still made it ridiculously higher than UT (by multiples) even if he were paying full price. He has thankfully gotten enough outside scholarship money to cut costs way down and keep what he can in reserve for med school.
Med school tuition might run $250-500k (in today’s dollars). Minimize the student’s debt in undergrad while giving them an atmosphere that maximizes GPA, MCAT, and opportunities for clinical/shadowing/research/service.
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@P-Mom2025 Thank You. I do understand that Premed refers to set of majors that can help gain acceptance into medical school.
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On UT’s instagram it says they had nearly 100K applicants this year!
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Can you link the post? I’ve seen a pic in a FB group but it doesn’t show up for me in “be a longhorn” page
I don’t know how… if you are on instagram follow utaustintx
and then look at their story and it is there.
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It’s one of the last slides in the utaustintx instagram, hit the UT Wrapped Circle next to the 31 Days of Christmas near the top.
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I was wondering if anybody had received a forty acres scholarship invite?
Several reports of FASP invites on reddit for this cycle. Last week and this week. Last cycle they went out in weekly waves as well. I want to say over like a month. My son was invited to round 1 last cycle, never went any further. It is not a common thing. Like 1-2% of all applicant get invited to round 1 and then it gets even tougher.
My daughter received one November 13th and I know of one other that received one that day. And I also know someone who received on last night.
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Will there be a wave of admissions before holidays like last year?
Was the pre-holiday wave last year just instate or OOS also?
I believe it was both. Instate and OOS
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It was a group of less than 200 (out of 90000+) who had perfect or near perfect standardized test. Both in and out of state. It was the only “wave” outside the EA and RD decisions last cycle. No rhyme or reason to it but it almost felt like they were testing the announcement feature of the new EA type computer setup. I honestly doubt you will see an unannounced wave ever again for incoming fall freshmen. IMHO they have completely transitioned from the old wavy-ways for them. Right now they are working on a last wave of spring transfers…those they still do in waves 
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Has anybody got the auto admit letter yet? I heard someone got the letter, but not sure whether it’s true. My older one was a 2023 high school graduates. He got one about a week after sending in the application. Seems it’s not the case this year.
There was no auto admit letter sent last year for my DD. Her Mystatus portal changed a bit with Major in review on sep23rd last yearcand that was about it.