The Plan II Admission Wait List

Plan II may make wait list offers to a small number of applicants.

If number of applicants who accept an offer of admission is low, and our entering freshman class has spaces available, Plan II will make offers of admission to some applicants on the wait list.

Unfortunately, we can’t give any firm number on anyone’s chances of admission from the wait list. Only those who respond in writing to the wait list offer will be considered again for Plan II admission. In years past, about 50% of those offered the wait list responded. Assuming similar numbers to past years, the “active wait list” in any given year might include about 30-35 names. From that list, we might admit a modest number of applicants in mid-May.

If you wish to be included on the Plan II Honors Program wait list, you must:

• respond in writing, on or before Friday, April 16, 2010
  • the letter requesting placement on the Plan II wait list, should be addressed to the Plan II Admissions Committee
  • send the letter to the attention of:
    Jennifer Scalora, Director of Plan II Admission
    Plan II Honors, The University of Texas at Austin
    1 University STA G3600
    Austin, TX 78712-0569
• enclose the most recent record senior grades. (If no new grades have been added, your rank has not changed, and no other information has changed on your transcript since it was originally submitted, clearly state this in your letter and do not send another copy.)

If we do not receive written correspondence from you by April 16, we must assume that you no longer wish to be considered by Plan II Honors.

We understand that it can be difficult waiting to hear about the status of your Plan II application, especially when you may have offers from other colleges to consider. We won’t be able to tell you more until after May 15. By then we will know who is on the active list and how many spaces, if any, are available. As a result, we cannot answer specific questions over the telephone about your status on the waiting list.

How the Wait List Works

After the May 1 deadline, when those applicants who were admitted must let us know if they choose Plan II, we will know how many (if any) applicants can be admitted from the wait list. What usually happens is that more students than we can manage respond positively. So, often we are waiting for applicants to change their mind about coming just to lower our numbers down to where we wished to be in the first place. We have lowered our number of original offers of admission, but the “yield” factor (the number of applicants who accept Plan II’s offer of admission) is unpredictable, as is the original number of applicants—neither number follows any reliable trend.

If, for some reason our yield is lower than expected—something we don't expect—we will take more students from the wait list. If the yield follows the averag,e then we will be able to offer admission to just a few folks on the wait list. If the “yield” is much higher than the average, we won’t be able to make admission offers to anyone on the wait list.