The University of Texas at Austin had promised its first cohort of Early Action applicants – students who were required to apply by the very early date of October 15, 2024 – an admissions decision by January 15, 2025. Well, January 15, 2025 came and went, and guest what? The vast majority of Early Action applicants have no admissions decision.
It may actually take another whole month for UT Austin to produce admissions decisions for Early Action applicants according to communications received by some EA applicants yesterday. The official line coming from inside UT Austin’s admissions office is that the number of applications received prevented it from delivering the admissions decisions by the date it had previously guaranteed. Whatever the case may be, this shows pretty bad form by UT Austin and should make students and parents question how well functioning the university is overall.
Update: In the hours after this article was initially published, UT Austin revealed that it has so far admitted approximately 5,000 students and that MOST of these students met the Early Action deadline (that means that some of them did not and therefore applied Regular Decision). This group of approximately 5,000 students represents 25% to 30% of UT Austin’s total expected freshmen admissions offers for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle. So far there have been no rejections. While there may be limited admissions decision releases for smaller majors or for automatic admit-eligible students applying to specific majors between now and February 15, most of those who met the Early Action deadline and have not received a decision are now expected to receive a decision on February 15, 2025. Nearly 91,000 students total applied for first-year admission to UT Austin during the 2024-2025 admissions cycle.
For more information about this unprecedented systems breakdown within UT Austin’s admissions office, watch the video below:
This news comes just a few weeks after UT Austin touted its record-breaking application numbers:
I had previously discussed major changes UT Austin was introducing for the 2024-2025 admissions cycle:
On a related note, I have also recently cut a video about America’s most overrated universities.
