Damn UT

When my family left the state several years ago with young kids I actualy considered the fact that they'd have to probably be top 1% students to be considered for Texas. We left anyway.

After a few years out o state we are starting to realize that our kids, though not bad students, are not going to be at the level that gives them a chance to get into UT. I will continue to push them to do the absolute best they can and im sure they will still apply, but ive allready come to terms that i will probably be the last longhorn in this family. Breaks my heart.

I keep in pretty close touch with Texas alums in the area. If ive heard one story ive heard 1000 about kids of alums working their *** off only to have their heart broken. Hell, a couple of years ago we had the valedictorian of a large, highly competitive suburban HS not get accepted to UT. I think she went to Rice. It seems like every time theTexas Exes here meet there is an uncomfortable conversation about how "maybe TExas wasnt a good fit for junior after all" and that "OSU or Arkansas are ACTUALLY pretty good schools"

Obviously, Id like to see some sort of "legacy credit" for the children of alums. Not instant admission, just extra credit. We do this for all kinds of other reasons but since this is not the West mall i wont get into it.

We support the university financially and children of alums generally are super-excited to go to texas and do quite well. I may withhold future support if the admissions office doesnt pay more attention to the exceeding talented children of alums that happen to no longer live in the state.
 
hook, there is one major flaw with that thought. I like what you say and agree with you but the sheer volume of alumni is staggering. What criteria would you suggest they go by in dealing with alumni. There are millions of kids with parents that are alumni. Would it become a competition of whose family gives more or has given more over time? Maybe how long they have been graduates?

If they offered favored status to the offspring of alumni, which I like the thought of, how would they go about the pecking order? Then you have a massive amount complaining they were not higher on the list. They would threaten to hold back money, not buy tickets and other things.

I cannot think of a system that would work to make the most amount of people happy all the time. I wish I could. So do they.
 
Loop, that discussion would be difficult to have without a complete and total breakdown of how they accept the class beyond the 8%. I would love to know exactly how students are chosen and how they weigh qualifications beyond class rank and ACT.
 
I wonder if all of that is able to be had via some type of freedom of information act or if it publicly available already.
 
My kids couldn't get in and went to A&M, my brothers kids are going to Missouri & OU. They worked their asses off only to get rejected. If your kids to get in they better be in the Top 5% of a competitive school or forget it. If they really want to go to UT; I would move them to a not so competitive school where they can be in the Top 1% - 2% of the class to guarantee.
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I no longer support in UT in anything, but Athletics which is cratering fast.
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In state residency has two independent issues; tuition and admissions. The admissions requirement is that the applicant graduate top 8% or whatever it happens to be this year for automatic admission, but that has to be from a school in the state of Texas and really is unrelated to residency. Tuition is based on residency of the parent as was mentioned above, but there are some loopholes. Dependents of military parents who are stationed out of the state but maintain Texas state residency will qualify for in-state tuition. Also, if the parent is transferred out of state by their employer but intends to return as soon as possible, the dependent child can get in-state tuition. This one is left to interpretation by the university, and a nice letter from the parent/alumni can make it happen. I know because it worked for my siblings after my father was transferred out of state and they graduated from a non-Texas high school. But it didn't have any affect on admission as they had to compete as out-of-state applicants.
 
Powers is 100% responsible for the corrupt admission policy of 25% of the entering class.
I had never thought about the legacy portion of admissions until this post pointing out UT grads that have moved to other states /countries. The child or grandchild of a UT grad should get special circumstances admission points if they graduate outside of the state of Texas. The tuition rates would be out of state rates, but special circumstance point should be given.
Especially given the fact what special circumstances points UT is presently giving on it's personal achievment index.
 
Well guess there is some pretty strong consensus, at least among the motivated posters here, that we have an admissions policy that is unfair to say the least. Didn't think about it but that residency thing about military transfer exemption is how I got residency status with parents out of state. My Dad was transferred while I was a Senior in HS. But, since he kept his house as a rental, I didn't have any problem getting in state residence and getting in was a whole lot easier then, back in the mid 60's.
Well we are still waiting on Rice - thought I'd mention that since someone on the thread brought it up. How amazed would I be if she got accepted to Rice and turned down by UT. She has the credentials (I think) so guess it wouldn't be that far fetched but just doesn't seem right somehow. An Owl instead of a Longhorn - believe me I would take it to get her out here in Texas.
Hookem
 
Why not?

If a an applicant can get special circumstance points for his race/ethnicity, having divorced parents or having a different language spoken at home, I would think being the child of parents that graduated from Texas and were transferred outside of the state would get more points. Special circumstances.
 
....as someone said earlier in this post..."things work out..."

I was equally as devastated when my niece didn't get in in 2006....she had great grades in high school.....etc...

She ended up going to Baylor, she is today an RN and married to a wonderful guy she met there and they are huge BAYLOR fans....happy as can be....

...maybe the guy upstairs has someone picked out for your granddaughter that is somewhere other than AUSTIN....

ALL THE BEST...keep Hooking your HORNS...it's just the sign of the times

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To complete the PACE program, students must complete the ACC core curriculum found here.

ACC Core Curriculum

It's a lot of work and 1/3 of the way to a bachelor degree at UT. By the time the program is completed, the student should know whether UT is a good fit or not.
 
Get this. or major lousy attitude 'take this' UT. She got accepted to Johns Hopkins!! With all the offer Mom (read can you help Granddad) $6,000 per year!!
The package was, with a $3500 loan enough to cover all but $3800 of the stated tuition, board and books.
Never thought of JHopkins regarding Engineering but reading about it looks pretty good and just flabbergasted she got accepted - I didn't even know she had applied there. Also got accepted to Wake Forrest but $ not close to Hopkins. We are excited - going for tour second week of April!
At Spring game kept thinking that it is a shame she won't be here next year but how exiting this opportunity was going to be for her! Life is good, but sometimes strange.
Hookem
 
Should have previewed - I meant 'exciting' an opportunity, but exiting might have been a clever pun.
 
Read the other day that after the automatic spots are filled, the acceptance rate for the remaining spots, among all applicants, is less that at Harvard.
 
In his weekly newsletter last week, Powers said that there was a record 38,000 applicants for the 2013-2014 freshmen class. After reading that, it's obvious why I didn't get in.
 
Yes, with 38,000 applicants, after accepting 75% of the class under the top ten percent, the remaining 25% admitted applicants should not be subjected to Power's racist, corrupt,
holistict admissions policy. My Comptroller's niece just graduated in the top 8.5% (NHS & extracurriculars) of Alamo Heights High school and was denied admission. Both of her parents and my Comptroller are all UT graduates. She is going to A&M and no more money will be going to UT from three more graduates. They are not the type to raise hell, they will simply walk away from the University and take their money and the bad taste in their mouth with them. Meanwhile, under the corrupt UT policy, unqualified, unprepared college applicants will be granted admission and placed into remedial eighth grade level classes. With 38,000 applicants, it would seem the remaining 25% admitted would be superior, college ready and not judged on factors they have no control over such as race, single parent home or how well the rest of a crap high school tested on SAT/ACT test.
 
We I know for a fact that they have 4 already, but wasn't there going to be a vote on funding for a med school in Austin? I'm sure this may be old news to Austin residents, but those of use out of state may not be up to date.
 
The vote passed in Austin, and Dell has made a big donation. It's a few years away, and there is still a lot of opposition in Austin.

We now have UT Southwestern (Dallas), UT Medical Branch (Galveston), UT Health Science Center (Houston), UT Health Science Center (San Antonio), UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston), and UT Health Science Center (Tyler). UT has also announced combining UT Brownsville and UT Pan-American, and will build a medical school in the Valley.

We're a pretty big deal.
 
The current UT medical schools are not affiliated with UT Austin in an administrative sense... they are all separate component institutions of the UT System, and have separate budgets.

Similarly, the UT System medical schools have a president who is the top administrator and reports to the UT System chancellor, while a UT Austin medical school would be headed by a dean who would report directly to the University of Texas at Austin president.
 
A long time ago I got in free and clear. One of my friend got in provisionally and one went to ACC for a couple of years then transferred in. Two of my other other friends both ended up at UTSA with engineering degrees. Neither of my two brothers got accepted as freshmen but both transferred after taking classes at ACC.

I ended up getting my MBA from Texas State because I felt that $100k was a bit too much to pay.
 
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