UT Austin "Grace Period for Required Materials" Confusion

honeymaidyum
Sun, 01 Dec 2019 04:34:49 +0000

Hi there,

I am writing this at 8:00 PM on November 30th. I’ve gotten myself into a little bit of a situation, let me explain:

I’m not going to lie, I last minute decided that I wanted to apply to UT Austin. I hadn’t considered going to a school in Texas until I was watching the Texas vs. Texas Tech football game with my dad yesterday, and he said to me, “Hey, have you looked at applying to Texas?” I started doing some research and I realized that I really like UT Austin. But then I realized that the deadline was in two days, so I got busy grinding on the required essays. As of now, everything in my Coalition application is ready to go and be submitted, except for my transcript. I requested it today (Saturday), but my counselor doesn’t check her email until Monday, and the deadline is December 1st at 11:59 PM. I go into panic mode. But then I remember seeing a little notice about a grace period on the UT Austin website. It reads:

“Grace Period for Required Materials
If you submit your Summer or Fall 2020 application immediately before or on the deadline, we will consider required materials, including essays, transcripts, and the application fee, as on-time if you submit them through 11:59 p.m. (Central) on Monday, December 9. Please note: you won’t be able to use our Document Upload System until we receive your application, which can take up to three days after submission.”

I’m not sure what to do at this point because this notice says that the application needs to be submitted before or on the deadline, but Coalition won’t let me submit the application and pay the fee without having the transcript already uploaded.

Am I misunderstanding this notice? Is the deadline for the whole application postponed until December 9th or do I need to somehow find a way to submit everything except for my transcript? Do I need to transfer my entire application over to the other Texas admissions website in order to use the Document Upload System?

Any help clarifying ASAP would be VERY appreciated!

From,
A very concerned and stressed out student