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UT system schools have a program used to be called the caps program, not sure what it stood for. Both my kids went into it at UTSA and could have transferred but decided to stay at UTSA. My son could not get a guarantee of getting into UT engineering and wouldn't get a decision until after enrolling, so stayed and got an engineering degree with honors. My daughter stayed for much the same reason but went into accounting. On a side note, UTSA screwed itself athletically by not starting a football program 10-15 years before it did.
 
Richard Romo (I tell him I knew him before it was popular to be a Mexican) did an unbelievable job with UTSA, particularly turning San Antonio Community College into a four-year destination school. A huge percentage of the kids that enrolled at UTSA with the thought of transferring to Austin never did. Richard was and always will be UTSA, despite what those worthless pieces of **** that fired him think. I don't know of another school in America that can come close to matching his accomplishments.

How great would it have been to have T-man and Captain of a varsity team as our President instead of Cunningham, Burdahl, Fenves, and Powers?
 
Sabre, we've had this discussion before. Agreed, you knew Ricardo when it was "unpopular" to be Hispanic in Texas. Every other point you make is 1000% accurate. I too wish a pox on the houses of the UTBOR that fired him. Except that he is too humble to accept, the place should be renamed "the University of Texas @ San Antonio that Ricardo Romo Built."

Boss, my elder son was accepted as a transfer from Northwest CC into UT Engineering (didn't work out for multiple reasons). He wound up @ UTSA & got a degree in Accounting. My younger son planned to transfer from UTSA Engineering to UT. I told him to reconsider. 40 yrs prior I had transferred from Tceh to UT. I found that people already had study groups formed & those study groups were virtually impossible to penetrate meaning I was competing for grades as an individual against VERY smart kids in study groups (& sometimes those kids would cheat to get higher grades). My advice was: if you want to get your degree from UT, change your major. If he wanted to be an Engineer, stay @ UTSA. Today he is a very successful Engineer at a firm in Austin with a degree from UTSA.
 
Drove by UTSA yesterday returning home from Bandera. Appears to be more on-campus dorms being constructed.
 
1sa, it was an easy choice for both of them as they both liked UTSA and San Antonio. My son works in Austin and is a Longhorn fan (but then he was raised that way. My eldest niece was Plan II at UT but when she was looking at Universities they went to College Station and she told my brother that they didn't even need to stop, she was not going there. Unfortunately, she married an aggy.
 
Military member here....UT graduate, 1985. I spent 25 years in the Air Force, maintened my residence the entire time and moved back to Driftwood (think original Salt Lick) when I retired. This was 2011. My older son looked at UT , Rice, and Auburn (high school girlfriend). He was #13 at one of the best schools in Illinois. Short take, Auburn gave him a full scholarship and he is a successful Chemical Engineer for Shell. Younger brother was top 6% at the same school. Because it wasn't an accredited "Texas" high school, he was accepted into the CAP program and planned on going to UTSA. In May, they found a spot at UT and he has since graduated. Getting into UT is difficult... even for kids of UT graduates (I have my BA and wife has a Doctorate) because of demand.
 
SabreHorn said:
SA,

I would only tease Richard because we are friends, like he would tease me about being a swamp rat or having mud between my toes.
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True friends give each other great latitude. I say things to my best friends/chosen family that I wouldn't be caught dead saying in the presence of anyone else.
 
Walking Boss said:
1sa, it was an easy choice for both of them as they both liked UTSA and San Antonio. My son works in Austin and is a Longhorn fan (but then he was raised that way. My eldest niece was Plan II at UT but when she was looking at Universities they went to College Station and she told my brother that they didn't even need to stop, she was not going there. Unfortunately, she married an aggy.
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Both of my son's are Roadrunners who bleed Burnt Orange.
 
There were 90,000 freshman applications to Texas for the fall 2025 semester. My middle grandson was one of them. The weeding-out process took six weeks longer than usual as the automatic qualifiers (how is brother got in and will now be an honor engineering graduate) had to commit first. Then the wait. About a month ago they started offering the next layer. My grandson was in that layer so he will join everyone in my family except my wife (North Texas) and daughter in law (TCU) at Texas.

Your major plays a big role in the decision. From what I have discovered:
* in the first batch of non-automatic qualifiers it appears that each school is given a certain percentage of the remaining "slots". You fit into one of those slots and you get in.
* forget about transferring into McCombs (it happens about as often as :furk: wins a conference championship in football).
* transferring into Cockrell is a little easier depending on the Department you want to transfer into and where you are coming from. (If you have an bachlor non-civil or agrigulture engineering degree from aggy - good luck getting into a good graduate school.)
* as LHABSOB and I have discussed, if you can show musical talent and have been in band leadership (i.e. a multi-year drum major) that is taken into consideration but you have to commit to being in the Longhorn band which has some strings attached.
* in high school stick to one or two "clubs" and show leadership there. A long list of clubs means you just signed up to have it on the resume. Texas is looking for demonstrated leaders.
* slots for Computer Science are almost non-existant. A lot of the automatic qualifers want to go there plus a high number of the international students from Asia seem to get most of the slots. (It almost seems that Texas-Austin wants the Computer Science types to go to UTD.)
 
ViperHorn said:
* slots for Computer Science are almost non-existant. A lot of the automatic qualifers want to go there plus a high number of the international students from Asia seem to get most of the slots. (It almost seems that Texas-Austin wants the Computer Science types to go to UTD.)
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3 students at my son’s HS who scored 1590, 1570, and 1570 on the SAT didn’t get accepted into UT computer science program. A 4th person was accepted (SAT score unknown). I think UT purposely spreads the incoming students geographically otherwise the entire department will be filled with students from The Woodlands, Sugarland, Plano, etc.
 
nashhorn said:
Congrats Viper. Lot of us have the stories of opposite results.
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It was a tense six weeks. Michigan offered him a free ride last year if he would be in their band, and he visited ou and didn't like that. Colorado and Tennessee (a hard press) accepted him, but he held out for Texas.

He knew the consequences if he even admitted interest in :furk: .
 
ViperHorn said:
There were 90,000 freshman applications to Texas for the fall 2025 semester. My middle grandson was one of them. The weeding-out process took six weeks longer than usual as the automatic qualifiers (how is brother got in and will now be an honor engineering graduate) had to commit first. Then the wait. About a month ago they started offering the next layer. My grandson was in that layer so he will join everyone in my family except my wife (North Texas) and daughter in law (TCU) at Texas.

Your major plays a big role in the decision. From what I have discovered:
* in the first batch of non-automatic qualifiers it appears that each school is given a certain percentage of the remaining "slots". You fit into one of those slots and you get in.
* forget about transferring into McCombs (it happens about as often as :furk: wins a conference championship in football).
* transferring into Cockrell is a little easier depending on the Department you want to transfer into and where you are coming from. (If you have an bachlor non-civil or agrigulture engineering degree from aggy - good luck getting into a good graduate school.)
* as LHABSOB and I have discussed, if you can show musical talent and have been in band leadership (i.e. a multi-year drum major) that is taken into consideration but you have to commit to being in the Longhorn band which has some strings attached.
* in high school stick to one or two "clubs" and show leadership there. A long list of clubs means you just signed up to have it on the resume. Texas is looking for demonstrated leaders.
* slots for Computer Science are almost non-existant. A lot of the automatic qualifers want to go there plus a high number of the international students from Asia seem to get most of the slots. (It almost seems that Texas-Austin wants the Computer Science types to go to UTD.)
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If one is a freshman applicant, how does UT know you are transferring into McCombs or Cockrell? You mean applying as a freshman to business or engineering programs?
 
guy4321 said:
If one is a freshman applicant, how does UT know you are transferring into McCombs or Cockrell? You mean applying as a freshman to business or engineering programs?
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If you are automatically admitted (top 6% last year), you list your top 3 choices.
 
ViperHorn said:
It was a tense six weeks. Michigan offered him a free ride last year if he would be in their band, and he visited ou and didn't like that. Colorado and Tennessee (a hard press) accepted him, but he held out for Texas.

He knew the consequences if he even admitted interest in :furk: .
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that's so funny about schools. i was good with aTM but not ou.
 
If I applied to UT today with the grades that got me into the Computer Science program back in 1983, they wouldn't even let me sweep the floors.

Always remember what a UT and an a$m student have in common - they both applied to UT.
 
Phil Elliott said:
If I applied to UT today with the grades that got me into the Computer Science program back in 1983, they wouldn't even let me sweep the floors.

Always remember what a UT and an a$m student have in common - they both applied to UT.
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Me too, Phil. I enrolled in 1970. I was barely in the top quartile of my HS class. Today I may not even be able to sweep floors, I might be relegated to cleaning toilets.
 
Rick, when you came through, the best professor in the business school was a guy from West Texas who got his BBA, applied to get into the MBA program, and was rejected. Small consolation in that he was chosen a Rhodes Scholar that same year. Came back and got his Doctorate.
 
SabreHorn said:
Rick, when you came through, the best professor in the business school was a guy from West Texas who got his BBA, applied to get into the MBA program, and was rejected. Small consolation in that he was chosen a Rhodes Scholar that same year. Came back and got his Doctorate.
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We had a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Dept who wasn't a PhD because of an altercation with his Doctorate Advisor. He was one of the best in the field of distillation and taught us a lot about being engineers, professionals, and men. (There weren't many females in the engineering school then, three that I can remember). Most schools wouldn't have given him the time of day.
 
rick mueller said:
We had a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Dept who wasn't a PhD because of an altercation with his Doctorate Advisor. He was one of the best in the field of distillation and taught us a lot about being engineers, professionals, and men. (There weren't many females in the engineering school then, three that I can remember). Most schools wouldn't have given him the time of day.
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Are you referring to Jose Bravo?

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Are you referring to Jose Bravo?

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No, Jose was well after my time there, though I did know him. For the life of me, I can't remember the prof's name. I can remember the names of just about every other Chem E prof I had, except him. I will probably wake up in the middle of the night tonight and it'll hit me. He was my faculty advisor, you would think I would remember his name.
 
ViperHorn said:
There were 90,000 freshman applications to Texas for the fall 2025 semester. My middle grandson was one of them. The weeding-out process took six weeks longer than usual as the automatic qualifiers (how is brother got in and will now be an honor engineering graduate) had to commit first. Then the wait. About a month ago they started offering the next layer. My grandson was in that layer so he will join everyone in my family except my wife (North Texas) and daughter in law (TCU) at Texas.

Your major plays a big role in the decision. From what I have discovered:
* in the first batch of non-automatic qualifiers it appears that each school is given a certain percentage of the remaining "slots". You fit into one of those slots and you get in.
* forget about transferring into McCombs (it happens about as often as :furk: wins a conference championship in football).
* transferring into Cockrell is a little easier depending on the Department you want to transfer into and where you are coming from. (If you have an bachlor non-civil or agrigulture engineering degree from aggy - good luck getting into a good graduate school.)
* as LHABSOB and I have discussed, if you can show musical talent and have been in band leadership (i.e. a multi-year drum major) that is taken into consideration but you have to commit to being in the Longhorn band which has some strings attached.
* in high school stick to one or two "clubs" and show leadership there. A long list of clubs means you just signed up to have it on the resume. Texas is looking for demonstrated leaders.
* slots for Computer Science are almost non-existant. A lot of the automatic qualifers want to go there plus a high number of the international students from Asia seem to get most of the slots. (It almost seems that Texas-Austin wants the Computer Science types to go to UTD.)
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Viper, just for shits & grins, I checked admission rates & applications to a # of schools. I was surprised that UCLA had a total of 173,000+ total with 146,000 Freshman applications & 27,000+ transfer apps. I thought (still think) 90,000+ is crazy.
 
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