What happens After You Apply
After you’ve applied for admission, you should monitor your application’s status and do a few things to help make sure you’re prepared for your admission decision.
- Status check: Be sure the Application Status page indicates that your application is complete. If something you submitted doesn’t show up, you may want to send another copy or check with us to find out why.
- Updates or changes: Send us information about any significant updates or changes to your application before the deadline. For instance, if your class rank improves after the fall semester, mail us an updated official transcript showing your new rank.
- Other processes: Begin or complete any other UT Austin-related processes such as applying for housing, applying for financial aid and scholarships, applying for honors programs for freshmen, or completing any additional testing.
- Your decision: Relax and continue to watch your Application Status page for your admission decision, which will be posted as soon as it’s made. We’ll also mail your decision to your permanent address.
Application Processing
We process individual application items as we receive them. Near the deadline, it may take several weeks to process an item. As a result, items may not appear in your Application Status page immediately after you’ve submitted them. (Items that arrive on the published deadline, however, are considered on time even if they don’t appear in Status Check before the deadline.)
Application Review
Because we use a holistic review process, everything needed to make a decision about an application must arrive and be processed by our office before review can begin. Once your complete application is processed, a member of our admissions staff will begin to review it in order to make your admission decision.
If you’re a summer or fall applicant and your file is complete by the deadline, we’ll notify you of your admission decision by April 1. (Some applicants may be notified of their decision before that time.) We notify spring applicants on a rolling basis beginning in early November.
Sometimes applicants worry when their friends or classmates hear from us before they do. But not hearing from us is not necessarily a bad sign. Because we evaluate each application individually and consider some students for several majors, the process varies for each applicant.
Admission Decisions
When you do hear from us about your admission decision, you are likely to be notified of one of the following decisions or offers:
- Admission to the semester requested by the applicant
- Admission to the Summer Freshman Class
- An offer to participate in the Coordinated Admission Program (CAP)
- Denial of admission
Updated 24 June 2008
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