#University of Texas Austin (UT Austin) (2025-2026)
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3% acceptance rate
If you can get off the waitlist
You can make it to Harvard
Iāll look into it then, after orientation week when Iām just exploring Austin bc Iāll be moving in a week before the initiation ceremony for freshmen
Just to get a hang of everything
And find the optimal routes for stuff
Since Iāll be bringing my car and paying their egregious parking passes
ik, i just thought it was weird that the parents would rather choose waitlist over cap
even with the advisers saying itās not the best methodš
Because I'm assuming most of these people are either white or Indian. They want a "you're accepted to the class of 2030" screen to flail over and brag to other family members
Rather than telling them
"my child is doing CAP"
Because it somehow brings shame?
Although I couldn't really fully understand them because I'm on the other side of the story
But I feel there's definitely some toxic mindset mixed within there
probably
my mom nags on me and says that she wish i got into ut rather than doing cap but teebs like
either direction im going to end up at ut 
i felt bad cause it was mainly people who were in like sds, cs, and other competitive majors asking about that
same how much is it
u can do both i thought
but yeah for comp majors its best to join waitlist cause itll be impossible to transfer from lib arts to ur major in ur sophomore year, rather being on the waitlist you have a very very very very very very very slim chance of getting off
Like $309 to upwards of like $900. The $300 is fried and you can literally get no spots
I'm personally gonna buy the $1000
For non dorm students
Just so I get priority parking
šš
dawg wtf is prority parking š valet
just pick a spot and park gang
Yo anything to get a chance to park right in front of the aerospace building during the prime of Texas summer heart
Heat
im probably only ever gonna use my car like a few times a month, ide rather walk somewhere in austin then drive
gang
you are not finding a spot like that
that you can walk to
IF and thats a big if there is street parking, you might need a parking permit to use it
theres like 10 parking garages
parking garages are not free
I'm only bringing my car cuz one, I'm living in a apartment that's 15 mins away from campus and bc I wanna go to Houston for food
nah ima buy a pass
What's wrong with that
feather u prolly still on a permit gang u dont even know
You're telling me you're not gonna drive your Ford F150 4 wheel drive super duty in the narrowest alleys of UT???
Just not even a real Texan
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I have a Massachusetts driver's license actually
š that explains so much
who tf knows how to spell massachusetts off the top of their head
someone who lives in massachusetts
anyway i promise you that you do not need a car
u live in massachets gang
u dont understand
maybe i don't but i also do understand college campuses
Your state isn't the size of Europe gang
get a scooter or a bike
We trynna go places
payin allat to be chained to a car
Fun fact, a drive from Austin back home to Dallas is like 2 masachasseeets
Or wtv
its 1 massachusetts
Sorry I measure via cowboy boots not feet
if you say so
God bless the state of Texas
mine would only be $139 a year in a parking garage cause i live in dobie
god bless texas and its buccees and texan pride rahhh
god i spent like $115 at buccees once
One buccees gas station is like the size of 3 masachasseeets or wtv they call it
For UT youāre 100% right š
TAMU a car might be helpful
A car in a city is more of a headache
bro tamu has a bus stop at every block of campus
Youāll rarely go somewhere where a bus canāt take you in Austin either
i have a buccees onesie
you can defo be totally fine without a car in your freshman year
if you live in a dorm
š
I wonāt be
The apartments on the other side of the Colorado river are calling my name
Iām living in wtf is that tower called
Seven
With a friend
follow me tooš„¹
what's ur @
im not mccombs
guys omg
i met a sports photographer from ut, and i showed him my portfolio and stuff and he said heāll definitely keep in contact and try and get me on the media staff for football this year!!!!!!!!!!
iāll be on the sidelines shooting sports, a dream come true š„¹š„¹š„¹
ur like rudy

before i nearly got run over by traffic of student
also i see why everyone uses scooters here because i was walking everywhere and i felt like my legs were gonna give up
the whole tower gonna be covered in scaffolding during Gone to Texas
oh i walked by mccombs today
this is the one i passed by earlier
the really nice one is the graduate
thats undergrad
i sent that pic to my friend cause she got in to mccombs lol
woah
Do y'all see the appeal button?
iām getting admitted emails bc i had autoadmit but they but me in lib arts when i applied for engineering and it sucks š
got into csb guys
When deans scholars coming out
i heard itās a cohort of 25 max
Did robotics honors come out? Mine still in review
is turing hard for oos
its out?
yea i got it
crazy
cs?
bet sounds like a positive signal
any yall getting on the waitlist?
for sure
it's holistic so their selection process is similar to ivies
very positive sign
do i write it like a LoCi
i saw the one you DM'ed me
im probably going to model it after that but idk what to do
I got rejected, but I can join the waitlist. However I have heard itās pointless as they only accept like 5 people off a year. Can someone confirm this
i mean basically but its worth a try
actually you have GT
dont increase comp for us hopeless waitlist kids š
if you join the waitlist you shouldnt expect to get in through it
its a lot worse than normal admissions
Bro Iām not that comp
idk if this helps but at the cap meeting the advisors and the counselors basically told us not to waitlist cause the odds of getting off is genuinely so low
idk if itāll apply the same to you but they were telling all the cap parents/kids that if theyāre gonna waitlist, theyāre better off going to another university or accept cap and internally transfer but even thatās a pain in the ass
I got rejected from ECE as an in state auto admit with like a 1550, 10 APs at the time of applying, and like several solid engineering ECs. Admissions makes 0 sense
GT is literally better anyway
go to court
yeah honestly I should sue
oh
I wish there was a proper appeals system
I'm like 90% sure they didn't even get to my app and just tossed it
do they just toss auto admits into cola cause theyāre basically already in?
yeah
also it's so hard to transfer majors at UT
it sucks
I got into purdue and UIUC out of state for EE too
makes no sense
idk what uiuc is but atp id rather go there than ut
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
it's like UT but for Illinois students
It's top for Engineering
ohhhh
its on the same level as georgia tech and UT
yeah def go there whatās so great about ut engineering anyways (i actually donāt know)
I mean UT is in stateso a lot cheaper
yeah thatās true but
UIUC total cost over 4 years is like 240K
but i feel like at this point ut doesnāt even know who theyāre admitting anymore
iāve seen people on tiktok get in with a 1000-1100 sat
The only reason i would have maybe not gotten my major is because there were like 4-5 other auto admits at my school applying ECE
1 got into princeton, another into MIT, and another competed at ISEF
man if ut accounted school they shouldāve let me in stead of capš
iām the only person at mine who didnāt get in yikes
I mean for non autos it's a lot harder which makes me upset because I was auto and stil didn't get my first choice
mine were all non autos except for my valedictorian
idk whoever behind admissions is evil
UT is very inconsistent with admissions
whatās even worse is that their admissions office hours is during school and you canāt call them since we canāt go on our phones anymore like what
Ppl with lower stats than me got into ECE but I get capped š
Phone for what, to appeal?
stupid stuff about my app
and that i couldnāt get the submission portal for my portfolio since i was also applying to the art school š
i couldnāt call so it was just a very long and annoying process with ut
ur class size mst be tiny
and i got annoyed of emailing back and forth
thereās 92 of us lol
top 5% is like top 4
I tried appealing but they ahven't responded yet, and they probably will refuse
so i dropped my app to their college of fine arts rip
whatās more aggravating is that i had to choose another major which i had no association with the last 4 years
Wait fine arts requires a portfolio?
yea
Dang
Idk I hope we can get into some better schools than UT though
Cause UT is very inconsistent it seems it might not be indicative of anything about how good our app is
IT's definitely not
my resume is all art related and everything and here i am applying for gov in cola š
people get into t20s and capped from UT
i tell myself that iām gonna prove ut wrong for capping me but in reality i know im gonna go to ut
i spent too much on merch the last 8 years 
UT should have a different policy for auto admit on schools wiht like less than 200 people
i genuinely think they should
itās extremely hard no matter how hard i try academically to climb up my ranks
if my valedictorians gpa is like 114
and mines like 96 or 95
and that puts me at 39/92
itās so irritating
also i wish i had a lot more opportunities for ecs and stuff cause my school barely does anything cause of how small we are
like say if i went to allen hs , the things ive done now currently in the past 4 years i could maybe do in a year or two š
oh my gof and we have like 4 clubs here
isnāt that the one with a mf stadium
yeah itās the biggest hs here
sum slight
but majority of texas hs are enormous in size
some campusās in my city genuinely look like colleges š
I have less than 70 kids in my graduating class lol
Genuinely only 3 ppl are auto admit how is that fair for UT
dang i have 370
for schools less than 100 grad class genuinely they need to up the auto admit scale
tbf. most places do not have auto admit
is that just a texas thing?
not where i am from at least
yeah but the issue is that it only benefits larger schools
whereas me and electro suffer
Howās that related to UT though
UT has auto and it sucks
And thatās the college Iām in state for
i thought about transferring to a bigger school after junior year in hopes of fixing my class rank but i realized because of how little my school offers my rank would probably be less than 39 if i switched somewhere else
would u prefer they have no auto at all
i mean i agree that they should change for small HS
but
i think they should just get a whole new admissions team
cause they one they got now isnāt working š
I mean yeah? Would allow them to review apps more holistically
Which is better than putting heavy weight on stats compared to everything else in the application
Thereās a reason why auto admit is not a standard practice itās only Texas thatās weird
āholistic reviewā or look at someoneās app for 30 secs then cap or throw them into cola undeclared š³š„š
is gt cs or ut csb better
speaking of ut im literally driving back from austin as we speak lol
Whichever one is cheaper for you
Both are cracked at CS
both is extremely good from what iāve heard but yeah whatever is cheaper
yeah Iād take gt before but I got csb honors after so Iām reconsidering
dont be like my friend and turn down yale for ut š
if ur in state and u get Turing that makes sense
Whatās the cost difference
Are u in state for GT?
nah oos for both
Oh
his reason was āi like texas better, and burnt orange is a better color on me than dark blueā
Honestly take GT
Iām pretty sure GT total cost is cheaper over 4 Years
70???? š dang-
if my class was 70 people i think that wouldāve been my final straw
If you got Turing take UT but otherwise take GT CS
Smart enough to get into Yale and UT but not smart enough to rationally make a good college choice
Cooked
i think he just didnāt wanna leave texas
I mean yeah I know most ppl come from big schools around here š
what other major colleges besides are there besides rice, ut, and tamu
and baylor and utd
Texas tech and Baylor but theyre nowhere near as good as the other 3
Such a small class size but somehow got 2 ppl into MIT one year once
Do you think I should take a full ride at TAMU for engineering or rice if I get in
Thereās a lot of big colleges here but the actual competitive ones are only Tamu UT and Rice
yes bro free education
If you can afford Rice go to Rice, yk after an entire year at A&M ur chosen engineering major is NOT guaranteed
Thatās why I didnāt apply there
No mine is guaranteed
Iām nmf
i didnāt apply to a&m cause their application as a whole looked like genuine hell
You donāt need to do ETAM?
why was there so much
I got the brown scholarship which is basically guaranteed major + engineering honors program + full ride
No
Oh then Iād consider based off how expensive Rice is and how much you vibe with the schools
all national merit semifinalist & finalists are admitted directly into their majors, no etam
They are very different, Rice is small but TAMU is huge
Aye congrats! My friend got that too
Yeah itās really good
Somehow didnāt get into UT ECE but got the brown scholarship tho
Why do colleges value performance on a one-time PSAT test in junior year so much? The SAT is more indicative of actual competency I never understood it
Well psat u can only take once
Huge scholarships for national merit PSAT test but nothing for the actual SAT š
Yeah but itās A&M specifically thatās giving the scholarship not the actual national merit corporation
The actual national merit scholarship is only like 2.5 k
But itās less hard and literally once in your junior year, itās not very indicative of actual academic competency or whatever so it shouldnāt be rewarded THAT much
$500 comes from national merit corporation, $2500 comes from a random A&M donor, and $7500 comes from craig & dolen brown
if itās cs
itās valid
Multiple colleges give tons of benefits to national merits for some reason
Very weird to do that but not for SAT performance
i think its just that psat cant be retaken
Yeah this
Imagine if sat couldnāt be retaken š
So many ppl would be cooked
Is that a justifiable reason to reward so much? Iād say a higher score in the SAT no matter how many times means youāre more academically competent than a higher score on PSAT once
Also if u did good on the psat your def getting at least a 1500 on the sat
PSAT couldāve easily been a fluke yk
the decision to base recognition using psat instead of sat was by national merit scholarship corporation, not tamu
Same goes for sat tho some people get so lucky on one test
yeah he got in for cs
Like once ur at a 1500 sat score, itās kinda based on luck to get above a 1550
But colleges arenāt obligated to reward a PSAT score more than a SAT score
oh wow
Dude imo PSAT is way more luck based to get a high score in
guys i thought the psat was harder than the actual sat
At least enough for NMF
No
i got like a 700 on my psat then got a 1300 on my sat š
i mustāve had a bad day or something freshman year then holy
but im pretty sure thatās cause i wasnāt taught trig at that point yet
i took the psat once and took the sat twice
PSAT for the National merit is only for juniors
oh
Did u never take it?
i thought you guys were talking about the psat as a whole š
i only took it freshman year
Nah there are 2 psat versions
i didnāt even know thereās a national merit thing for juniors
PSAT 8/9 and psat nmsqt
Nah i think what u sent me is good
So u never were even able to be qualified for national merit š why didnāt u take it
Yeah NMSQT is the one we are talking abt
cause i didnāt know it existed till now
Np
i did psat 8/9 then just never did it again
Did no one else in ur school take it??? This is like a common knowledge thing for juniors/seniors
Cause of the scholarships and benefits potentially
noā¦
we only did sats junior/senior year
maybe my schools a bum and didnāt pay for it
My school had all the juniors take a proctored PSAT test for NMSQT
Ur college guidance at ur school must be terrible
yeah no.. no one in my school took ts š
sheās horrible
genuinely
Dang my school makes it mandatory š
this server has helped me more with my college apps more than my counselor
Same
Like UTD gives full ride to national merit finalists I believe
And auto entry into honors college
Damn thatās so dumb š
i donāt know what she does genuinely
Tamu also has a specialized AO just for nmsf
like no way i had to rely on randoms in a discord server than a job youāre certified to do
Dang⦠š
bro texas is better
like this is literally my first time hearing about national merit for psatš
wish i knew this last year
oh well iām graduating in less than 3 months and i still got in to school

utd is lwk so overhated
like yes we get it everyone goes there but its really good for certain majors
+dallas job market
+its cheap as shit
real
Yeah no UTD isnāt bad at all
iām touring there tmmr lawl
Iām prob going to there cause I got rejected from UT
Imagine not having that college be somewhat a part of ur life since childhood
It is but Yale overall cna get you insane connections probably, if one can afford it
im lwk like within 30 minutes of utd
i didnāt even grow up here š
not too much
Thereās also like UTA UNT UTSA Texas tech too
i freaking hate utsa
i say that as iām hoping to get utsa the minute that cap form drops
Ur actually gonna do CAP?
yeah
iām a cola major so
i donāt have a problem with it
if i wasnāt applying cola then i wouldāve gone to utd
So ur guaranteed transfer entry?
yeah
Is UT really that worth it to start a year later than everyone else there though
It doesnāt make much sense to me
iāve fantasized about this school long enough
and i canāt really see myself anywhere else besides ut
Why
its one of those like love at first sight things w me for ut
Bro š
when i toured freshman year(?) i loved the campus, culture, etc
Well hopefully u enjoy it, im def not doing it tho but im engineering anyway
and i really just wanted to see myself there in the future
whether itās under grad or grad
i think because i was so dead set on ut it was hard for me to find other schools i liked
except for texas state i didnāt like anything besides sewell park
you couldnāt pay me enough to go there
Yeah thatās the bad thing about having a dream school like that
Usually not open to other perfectly good options and get crushed if not accepted or unable to go
like to me the way i see it as, yes ut is my dream school > got capped > upset but still guaranteed cola + im a cola major > its only a year of ut that im losing so
To me freshman year is far too valuable for making relationships and getting acclimated to waste on a school id transfer away from
And restart again that whole process sophomore year
for utsa thereās a cap club and stuff here and whatever else they have
my only issue for it is that i want to leave home and see what itās like to be on my own
and utsa is too close
i wouldnāt mind staying for another year if itās cap but if i did undergrad at utsa i wouldāve ended up staying home for like. 4 years to save money š
also another huge reason is the art culture in austin, i think itās so diverse and thereās so much more than where i am
photography is basically my life so another reason why i resonate w ut
Bro I threw the psat
I cooked on English and then I mustāve made so many sillies on math bc I got a 710 š
Destroyed my index fr
So you got like a 1460 or 1470
50
I think that qualifies in some states but for Texas you need like a 1480 or 1490
Yea Iām in ny
I got a 1520 last year lol I think I got kinda lucky
and like 4 huge band halls
and their own esturaunt
and a broadcasting station
and a gift shop
š
and a food court
Bro what Allen high school students are so blessed
Is it a highly ranked school?
gift shop and food court is insane
mine has a rly big stadium but itās for the district
but every hs in the district has like 3k or more students
eehhh
it's very competitive but not highly ranked like tag, tams or basis
allen is a big city & only has one high school
their senior class size last year was like 1700 iirc
oh hmm ig id expect with such a big high school with so many resources itd be nicely ranked
but only highschool in the city is crazy
most mass cities only have one HS
interesting
like boston has a lot and newton has 2 but i think other than that everyone has 1
prolly bc only 500 kids out of 1700 kids in each year take advantage of the school's resources
yo if i filled out the housing application in late december
am i fucked for dorms
š
how fricked am i for honors quad if i apply rn
yes
where r yall planning on living
do u even specify honors or no honors in the app
idts
bro
wait for honors housing do u have to indicate that somewhere
i submitted my housing form back in sept
i was talking to someone at ut today and they said smth about certain ppl having first pick of housing
including honors housing
earlier u accept ur offer, the earlier u get a contract
i did my app december 3rd, and accepted my offer of admissions on jan 16th. i got my housing contract in the first wave
u aint getting it atp
people are saying that the free app week screwed up their application ššš
something about residency issues and whatnot iirc
ut admission guy talks more about it in detail
yeah
but also apply texas just sucks
iād rather do commonapp than anything else
Do you think housing will run out if I apply in like April
Waiting for the ivies
I already did the application in like September
Iām talking about the next step
After committing
if u did ur housing app ur fine
wait for ivys
honor quad dorms r kinda mid
some friends stayed there for boy state and their rooms were worse than the ones I got in kins
Wait for average cracked cs student he would even agree to live in a 4x4 bathroom
ong i toured them and they were ass... would never wanna live there
better than no on campus housing lmao
idt i have a chance at normal housing if i apply now, i think honors should be relatively more available
well if u are in honors u get priority housing
i applied january i might be fucked myself
so u should have a better chance of getting another place
if not u should lwk look into off campus apartments like dobie which r the same price if not cheaper
alr thats chill. in the welcome email the csb coordinator strongly advised us to register for housing as soon as possible so i didnt know how fried it was
like 30 mins ago
i didnt get anything
me neither
Do you gotta send AP scores to UT now or when you decide to commit?
who else got into mccombs
i think it may only be for mccombs students?
idk maybe region then irdk
like to get credit?
you can send them later
i got it too and i applied cola
did you get in EA
Like after i commit
Which will be late March after Ivy decisions
when is deans coming out
i got one for "what to do now", a dinner for mccombs students, and the welcome to texas
did u get the dinner email
im in csb and i got a welcome breakfast invite for the 28th
i got the same thing
LOL SAME
when it says tour "one of the residence halls"
do u get to pick or do they just decide what hall they wanna show u š
i got the same aswell
rip
any ut students here
im going to ut this week and i was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for places to visit (both on & off campus)
the museums here r cool. i like blanton (the art museum). lots of good boba and food places on guad.
see the tower ofc. thereās a lawn in front of it thatās rlly cool. + the fountain. + we have a turtle pond too itās quite awesome
the sky space or whatever itās called is cool
go check out the pcl. you might be spending a lot of time there later
uhhh more interesting austin tourist things: we have an f1 track. lots of things around lady bird lake. bats š¦. live music
if u like jazz i like monks jazz club. never have been disappointed
back to campus: union underground is quite awesome. bowling, pool š±, esports lounge, n other
music stuff.. cactus cafe (on campus live venue) and waterloo records (off campus music store)
iām not into sports but our hall of fame is quite cool
uhmmm yah
oh last thing if ur into second hand clothing at all thereās a big cluster of thrift/vintage places north up guad
most of this is related to my interests mb
the tower in question:
this is true but it still looks pretty cool. the tower looks rlly pretty at night
How hard it is to double major on UT?
ive heard mixed opinions
Ive also heard the AET program isnt too great, but is improving? im assuming the name value of Austin and the fact that its in the city outweighs the lack of in depth courses it provides (and game development is mostly portfolio and connection oriented from what I understand), but double majoring would probably be my ideal solution
ooo yes i love art so ill def be checking out the blanton. tjank you so so much for all ur recommendations :D
it depends what ur trying to double major in, but generally its a lot more effort than its worth unless they have a lot of overlapping classes. even then, you'll be taking pretty full semesters
np :3
i will check for aet and cs
are you tryna do like
aet/cs? oor
im unfamiliar with stuff outside engineering so i had to look stuff up and am kinda confused
afaik we don't have a game development major. there's a game development cs concentration and there's a game dev capstone (?)
aet has a game design concentration
do you know anything about double majoring in business?
probably not that, ive heard its near impossible to double in cs
i think its officially called entertainment technoolgy but im mainly interested in the game development route
you can look up the course requirements for each major and compare and contrast and then from there estimate how many hours youād have to take in a semester and assess the difficulty of the classes ur taking
i can like run a degree audit rq so you can get all the reqs in a better format but like i donāt imagine aet (pretty sure arts is part of it) and business have a lot of overlaps aside from core stuff which may not even be 1:1
did you take a lot of ap/onramps/dual credit classes
they can help but only to an extent
hold on let me check smth
have you considered a minor/certificate?
mccombs has quite a few options
i havent thought about it much
would it be preferrable
?
i think that like theyāre significantly more realistic
gotcha
bc like by double majoring
you probably have to take like an additional 30 hours or smth like that and possibly extend ur undergrad to 5 years
i just feel like the AET degree doesnt have any real value, because people in the industry usually get in with other majors, and it's mostly portfolio based
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iām in engineering so like,, i canāt rlly confirm or deny that. not my field, but ultimately itās up to you what you pursue
and you can always switch majors. yeah it might be harder at ut than other schools but itās not impossible to transfer between schools
btw do you know how useful minors/certs are? ive asked people in the aet discord and a lot of people do aet+cs cert apparantly
rlly depends what ur going into and what ur taking
is there a downside to this other than the cost btw?
but imo itās a good way to learn more without making it evil for you
the majority of people donāt double major. you donāt need to double major to break into whatever industry ur trying to go into. ik some ppl feel like that but itās rlly not the case
you might be pushing urself back a year for smth thats not rlly worth it
you might also need to be taking more classes during the year and you can easily burn yourself out with that
gotcha
yes
you can even do it during orientation
looked into a bit more, yeah it might be my best bet if i end up going here
is double majoring the same as internal transfers?
also found the time when i asked in the aet discord server
ive heard they had like GPA requirements at least for transfers or something
vesktop + custom theme
t-minus about 24-ish hrs till i commit to cap
praying i get utsa
man apparently the form for utsa fills out within 30 seconds what the hell

my parents said no to uta because itās far 
i just have a bone to pick because i live around the area of the campus
utsa will make my cap year financially easier and just life easier in general
no meal plan or housing 
this school needs to reword their emails better. my heart dropped cause i thought the form was out already 
does anybody know when cns honors comes out or is already out
fr
I heard more honors decisions on Sunday
Not sure though
Since thatās March 1st
they havenāt released honors yet?? wow
i thought usually itās a couple days after main apps drop
UT! š¤
47
83
3
Rejected
UT (autoadmit) š¤
10
17
1
Accepted (Desired major)
Anyone get Turing?
I got denied
rejected from deans im really dissapointed because research was my main ec
denied but it said i made it to semi-finalist
ššš
bro utsa filled up SO FAST
mystatus crashed and i couldnāt even choose utsa anymore
hello ut arlingtonā¦
well yay Arlington for a year then i can see the tower everyday
Dang everyone mustāve been camping š
dude I WAS CAMPING
i had ts open on my school laptop, phone, macbook, and ipad
i chose utsa the second the form dropped
but i was faced with mystatus crashing and giving me 2 loading screens
this is worse than getting concert tickets
talking about some āthis school is filledā

cs here is also like extremely rigorous. all my cs friends are going through hell š i dont think it would be wise double majoring in it ngl
pretty sure the process is similar
why is ut admissions so bad this year
my friends that wanted to do cap canāt even choose their school
This is acc sad
Uh ece + cs
Is this a smart idea?
Or is that the definition of i want to jump off
yeah.. like not even cap can even choose
usually when you do cap thereās a screen that shows the schools that youāre able to apply to
on hers, all the schools are gone and she canāt choose or do anything
What the..
Wait like allocation issue or server glitch?
no like genuinely no matter how many times she refreshed her mystatus her schools arenāt there
like for me, my schools showed up and there was a dropdown menu with all the schools i could select, utsa was full so i did arlington
her screen:
no way theyāre offering cap to kids if theyāre gonna run out of room THAT fast
anyone made Turing today?
What was your decision for turing honors?
that's actually illegal cause by law UT must provide a pathway for students
@desert bolt did the email say if u made it to semi finalist
ayy
RAHHHHHGHGD
now we wait for 2 weeks for utsa to get back to me even though im accepted to there š
Someone I know competed at ISEF, has leadership in a FRC team that competes at worlds every year, and was auto admit with great stats got cola at UT after applying chem E
there's really no point in double majoring in cs as an ece major
there is a software track in ece if that's what you want to do
and many tech elective classes on cs related topics
there is an option to do a cs certificate if you really want
but double majoring is overkill imo
Got it
two evil majors (as someone in cockrell)
both r a very heavy workload i wouldnt do it
It was never the plan to, I was lowly js joking
san antonio mentioned
engineering honors?
where we roam where we roam yeah
gotcha
bro yes
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it doesnt get better than that icl
unless if u got into like stanford mit or sum
quite literally going to a t10 cs school and also a t10 biz school at the same time
thats literally amazing for quant imo
how rigorous is cs+neuro? do you have any friends that take that major?
i donāt know the obsession with double majoring šš i have friends taking only cs who have developed mental health problems, are barely passing their classes, and are barely sleeping.
thereās ways to show proficiency or understanding outside of double majoring in two difficult degrees with a lot of people only in one barely staying afloat
but yah cs is incredibly rigorous afaik
i would recommend looking into minors and certificates
i think cs+neuro is an integrated degree like one of those cs+x degrees: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/undergraduate/x-cs
ive heard. idk how people survive in turing cs
ohh ic
idk anything abt this tbh bc it doesnāt exist yet
but like if itās something theyāre offering and they give a framework that makes it possible, go for it perhaps
im going to welcome to texas next saturday
Iām still considering gt over csb lmao
the extra business degree doesnāt really do much in the grand scheme of things, might as well take the more rigorous option
cola at UT?
thats wild bro
they shoulda def gotten their major
but yeah UT deans denied my friend who's sts top 40...
im not opposed to taking business classes, i equally value business and tech but those two are different in how you break into top roles
ut cs in state or gt cs oos
UT unless you wanna go Oos
ut
similar question, gt cs or ut cs turing (both oos, ut is estimated to be abt 15k more per yr)
gt
what r u tryna do in cs
turing is very research focused right
either swe (cooked ik) or grad school
yeah its really good if you're trying to get into ai research for example
for swe gt
Is there a release date for any of the scholarships from LASSO?
I wanted to know abt the general scholarship interest one for freshman
you guys know the guy jaydatroll
what is this college
anyone in the zoom for UT admitted students?
yeah
same
what are they gonna talk about
idk
i think its about registering for courses and ut events throughout the year
it's my first admitted students day thing ever
yeah that pretty much provided no new info
if u choose an earlier orientation date dont u get to choose better classes?
@meager fog
you get to choose better UGS classes
which are required
i'm not sure how it works for other majors, but for ece majors intro classes are reserved
I literally i asked in the zoom and their response was "we have many classes, there is no "better" classes"
yeah i knew they were lying
so ima try and choose the first orientation date
cause then ill probably get all my first choices?
that being said spots in some sections are still limited, so earlier orientation will give you the most options
yeah that's a good idea
in general registering for classes at ut is pretty fucked
to get the first registration date im assuming its gonna fill in seconds of the portal opening
like orientation?
it might, but also iirc the first orientation date is during school for a lot of people so it might not
unless they changed it
the first session is june 1
oh then yeah it might fill up pretty fast
wym by better classes
like u will get to be able to pick good class times and stuff
oh i need that
i have to commit to be able to register for the orientation right?
yes
ic
easier, more interesting, better professors, better times, etc
is there a limit to how many can go to orientation?
there's a limit per session
isnt csb an exception
comp sci and business
it's an honors program
to be more specific it's a dual degree program with cs honors and business canfield honors
or finance or startups
bc austin location
i have no clue tbh
id assume so?
oh yeah
cs+math is an exception imo
they have so many overlapping courses that it's essentially the same grad reqs
at a lot of schools
spots open up every registration but for like ugs' yah
blinn
Ut cs+neuro oos or UMD oos cs
Iām aware there might be bias here but I honestly think that I will get the best advice here
lowkey umd
acc nah
idk
depends on cost too
lowkey they the exact same cost
ut csb oos full cost, gt cs oos full cost, or rutgers rbs free
that's tough one. i'd choose based on whether ur more into cs or business
if u like business and ur not in texas,
choose rutgers rbs free
if u like cs:
choose gt cs
if ur in texas and like business,
choose ut austin
@scenic crypt @meager fog do yall know any cap students im genuinely so lost on what im doing right now š
not any that i keep in contact with i fear
thatās alright thank you!
i canāt wait to open this thread for next years class and see the hell that happens
UT had 98900 applicants i heard at the admitted student event today
and 17952 mccombs applicants
8.3% acceptance rate
now imagine the hell thatās next year 
@meager fog
do you know professor bill
i toured san jac and now i wanna dorm there sooo bad
i dont i fear
is this for mccombs?
yes
Like UT overall acceptance rate?
yes for fall 2026
nah
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i've never heard of that
@meager fog huh
Did u do physical or virtual
I have a virtual event tommrow
physical
never mind
me and a friend were messing around in the library lwk didnāt know it it broke server rules or not
o
is anybody applying for the rosenthal levy scholarship
is that the guy who makes chess videos on youtube
HAHAHAHA
he's so goated
Nah bro thatās levy Rozman šš
i got into the first gen LLC. does anyone know if it's good?
has anyone gotten their fin aid offer?
no
yeah im expecting 6-7 more rejections this rd cycle
icic
wait where did u get in?
same i doubt ill get in anywhere rd š
man ur mccombs '30 dw
UT Austin
Purdue
UMD
Northeastern University,
Rutgers New Brunswick
Clemson University
Drexel University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Case Western University
Stevens Institue of Technology
Virginia tech
yeah
i did get rejected from GT and UNC Chapel hill
ok ur locked
cs+neuro*
i got rejceted gt yea
my shi is like
fsu
cu boulder
umd
purdue
vtech
umass
ohio state
rejections r nc state, uva ,uiuc, gt, duke, uwash
the ivies and UCs along with stanford and cmu gonna reject me lmao
u lowk got cmu
i wish lmao
what's ur top choice
bu, wharton, stern all rejecting me
by rankigns alone umd
by everything all tg purdue
and if i get into UF prolly going to uf
thats my deferral lol
UMD and purdue are pretty close in rankings. So it's interesting to see what other people prefer
wharton š„¶
stern š„¶
it rlly depends on location imo
obviously cost plays a huge role
but costs aside
it comes down to location
cuz like both umd and purdue have relatively the same job outcomes for c
cs*
quality of life at UT outweighs both of them tho ngl
oh without a doubt
yeah. i'm closer to umd, so I'd choose umd over purdue but purdue has a lower cost by like 20K. So that's good
yeah
u gotta be from new york surely
š
like im drake and there's a phony out there framing me
ngl u shud go UT gangy
exactly
bro u still aint drop iceman
yeah im thinking that's the best choice
the allegations from kendrick keep pushing it back. I think if my fans gave less attention to kendrick then it would help
did you apply ross?
mm icic
i was going to until i saw they required a research paper as part of submission š„
UMICH ROSS?
aint no way
yes bro
wow
they must be competitive af
i think its t10 biz
yeah. it's a good school overall. i got deferred there for cs in engineering
when i saw columbia asking me what books i read and for any research I'd done, i knew i was cooked
imagine if u get into pton
in my dreams
When does housing usually fill up? Iām not gonna commit until like late March so will it fill-up by then
its going to fill up very very soon
if you wait until then u are kind of cooked unless you want to live off campus but even then ur options will be limited
I already did the $100 deposit btw
I mean the actual contract
Donāt you think most students will be waiting for Ivy League and other schools to release decisions
no
you are in a bubble
most students dont even apply ivy
Alright so the method is to
Commit and then uncommit if I get ivy
My friend did this with UTD
Do you think it will be fine until March 15th? If I commit and apply for housing then
i think it'll be the same as applying now, it's only 5 days. just dont wait till may
Oh yeah
Even before planning this I was gonna do it like March 30
bruh i got into the first gen living community but they live on the highest floor in Jester west š
the whole point of living in jester is so the commute to campus is ideal, however if im on the top floor, ill be waiting like 5-10 mins for the elevator anyways
isnt jw like 15 stories šš
better start grinding the stairmaster
full ride is a full ride
full ride for selling ur soul to netanyahu
No comment @visaofficer
what's cookin good lookins
blublbulbublub!
Literally so true ā¦ā¦
have u looked at ur admission file for UT
i heard u can look at it and see the comments they put
i havenāt lwk
i should. iām curious as hell
yes u should
if u go to the admissions office they are required under ferpa to show u
when are we allowed to see?
cause some schools dont let you until sophomore year
Do you email them? Like how do I contact them
idk i havent done it
yeah i got it too
if it was spanish or smth ide do it
Is ut Austin worth it? Iām rlly reconsidering since my parents think committing to virginia tech would be better. I feel like im going to miss out if I donāt go for ut Austin
My cost is roughly the same for both
It depends on what ur major is
Yeah Iām oos for ut Austin and Iām doing mechanical engineering
But Iām planning on paying oos tuition first year and applying for instate tuition for the rest of the years
I also didnāt get into any of the honors college in either vt or ut Austin
All my friends were hyping it up saying the diff was a lot
only 4 more college decisions left š
kinda sad the stress is almost over
i wonder what i wouldve chose had i not gotten into UT
Maddux didnāt you already commit
yes but the 4 im waiting on are absolute moon shots
U penn NYU U boston and USC
I only applied business in one school and thatās Penn
do yk when usc is dropping
ok
So 27
so u would just forfeit your deposit??
if i got into wharton sure but am i getting in no
actually not even that
if i got into wharton + good financial aid
oh i thought you said u would go to like bu questrom or usc
BU nah but USC if i got a full ride ide consider which is not happening
I still have like 11 left
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first rd tmr
what school
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