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    • Notification:

    Early-consideration applicants will have notification mailed by December 15 each year. Plan II Honors will mail notification to all other applicants on or before April 1 each year.

    Texas resident applicants in the top 10% who complete the application process more than three weeks prior to the February 1 deadline are likely to hear of their Plan II admission status earlier than the April 1 deadline. If you have not received word from Plan II by April 5, please email Jennifer Scalora scalora@mail.utexas.edu. Include your full name, birthday and EID.

    For more information see Early Consideration and Rolling Admissions

    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 letter are considered again for Plan II admission. In years past, about 50% of those offered the wait list responded. Assuming similar numbers, we expect the “active wait list” in any given year to include about 30-35 names. From that list, we expect to admit a modest number of applicants in mid-May. (See below: How the Wait List Works)

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

    If we do not receive written correspondence from you by April 21, 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.

    Plan II Admissions & Competition

    Each year Plan II Honors receives about 1000 terrific applications from very bright hard-working students. Each year, we regretfully must wait list or deny hundreds of wonderful applicants, who would probably perform quite well in Plan II Honors. These are applicants we know would also bring a lot of heart and soul TO the Program. We simply do not have room to admit them all without changing the nature of our Program, which we are not willing to do.

    Although our admissions process is, by no means, based solely on test scores, and numbers absolutely do not tell the whole story, we will post the statistics of the admitted students in mid- to late-April. Denied and wait-listed applicants should review the statistics and see where they fall in the profile of admitted students.

    The University of Texas at Austin

    We sincerely hope all applicants remember that completely aside from Plan II Honors, the University of Texas at Austin offers an incredible variety of academic opportunities, courses, and programs—all of which are filled with the best students and the best faculty in the state and certainly in the top ranks nationally. Although Plan II students often stand out in the University community, they are by no means the only students on campus who do so. All UT students—whether or not they are in Plan II Honors—have the opportunity to pursue double-majors and dual-degrees so non-Plan II students need not feel bereft of choices. If an applicant chooses to attend UT, he or she will still have access to an excellent education with thousands of course and career options, with internationally recognized faculty, the best professional advising in the nation, exciting classes and a dazzling library system, not to mention the cutting-edge computing infrastructure, exciting study abroad opportunities, nationally recognized sports programs and brand-new sports and recreation facilities—all in one of the neatest cities in the country.