During your freshman year as a longhorn, part of your schedule will include a Signature Course. This is a new required course that’s part of your UT curriculum, whether you’re an Engineering student or a Journalism student. The Signature Course is a class for all first year students designed to help you develop skills in writing, research, speaking, and discussion – all while exploring really interesting subjects!
Questions, questions, questions. On admissions applications, from family members, from friends and classmates. Where are you going to apply? What do you want to do?
As my time as Vice Provost and Director of Admissions at UT Austin and my 36-year career in college admissions winds down, I tend to wander the campus a bit more and reflect on the things that I see. Knowing that I am no longer to bear the burden of planning for the new recruitment season, setting budgets and salaries, reading files or steeling myself for calls from outraged parents seems to have freed my spirit to see things differently…even little things.
If you’re a member of the armed forces and are planning to apply to UT Austin, you will need to decide if you will apply as an incoming freshman or a transfer. In my last post, I talked about applying for freshman admission.
Some of the most heartbreaking conversations I have are with students who aren’t offered admission due to their application or a piece of their application coming in late. If you’re going to be applying for college admission this fall, take note now and make a plan so that your college applications are all on time.