Surly Kids Admitted to the University of Texas / UT Application Process

[Longhorn94 2458]

I really liked the old thread wherein we discussed our kids getting into UT and asked questions about the process so I am restarting it here. Our oldest just finished his Sophomore year and will be a software engineer intern at Amazon this summer. He is in the Plan II Honors and Computer Science programs.

Our second oldest is graduating from LT next week and will be in the Plan II Honors and Economics programs in the Fall. He is also a Jefferson Scholar and was just awarded a full 4 year scholarship by UT! 

Our third is our only girl and we will be touring campus next week. She is interested in Environmental Science. If anyone has any experience or information about the Environmental Science Program at UT, we would love to hear it! She is also interested in the University of Washington right now but hopefully UT will win out in the end.

 

Edited May 17, 2018 by Longhorn94

[phdhorn 6224]

Good way to get that #humblebrag going, though congrats.

My son is a freshman (er, now a soph) in Cockrell ME.  He likes to eat and lift weights.  He received a 4-year "Mom and Dad Pays For This Shit" 4 (or more!) year scholarship.

He did well his first year, and looks forward to farting in his room and working next year in an internship, hopefully in the porn industry.

Don't have any info/tips on Environmental Science, except that Washington is pretty but it rains there and people commit suicide above the national average.  Let her mull those over in her choicemaking.

[closetojumping 62898]

Man, your wife must be super, super smart. 

[Longhorn94 2458]

2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Good way to get that #humblebrag going, though congrats.

My son is a freshman (er, now a soph) in Cockrell ME.  He likes to eat and lift weights.  He received a 4-year "Mom and Dad Pays For This Shit" 4 (or more!) year scholarship.

He did well his first year, and looks forward to farting in his room and working next year in an internship, hopefully in the porn industry.

Don't have any info/tips on Environmental Science, except that Washington is pretty but it rains there and people commit suicide above the national average.  Let her mull those over in her choicemaking.

Glad to hear he did well his freshman year! I hear Cockrell is rough.

Yeah, she loves that part of the country so will have to continue to work on it...

[Longhorn94 2458]

4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Man, your wife must be super, super smart. 

Ha! Yes, she is really smart, if you can overlook her flawed personal life decisions. I know her Dad reminds me every time I see him...

[phdhorn 6224]

I know NOTHING (Sgt. Schultz) about the daily rigors of ME, EE, or "whatever E" but man apparently it is a fucking beatdown.  He did very well gradewise, not, you know, like Asian kids, but pretty damn good.  His FIG (look it up) had like the 4 smartest kids in ME (long story to explain why this is essentially true), so he felt like a relative dumbass (lol!) but a few of his "auto admit" buddies were struggling in the mid-2.'s GPA wise.  

I am happiest that he really grew up and learned how to fucking bust his hump until it bled studying, etc.  I mean that boy fucking cracked the books and got himself in a really good place gradewise.  However, he knows that a good part of that was "shit to get outta the way" and only a few engineering courses, as a freshman (yeah, he brought in some high school credits, but still took electives).  He did really well in 2 courses which often serve as weeders - Chem and Calc - and did well within the upper 25% norm in most of his other stuff.  Mainly I'm not obsessed with GPA, he did well but of course a parent's main hope is that he doesn't hit a freshman wall and flunk out/transfer out of Engineering.  You're right, that program is a fucking obstacle course through hell.  But he's mentally doing fantastic, and it wasn't all wine and roses through this first year.

He'll be a 4-year (hopefully) Engineering student at this point.  That's all I hoped for.  Now he can debauch and flunk out on his own if he wants.

[Longhorn94 2458]

5 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I know NOTHING (Sgt. Schultz) about the daily rigors of ME, EE, or "whatever E" but man apparently it is a fucking beatdown.  He did very well gradewise, not, you know, like Asian kids, but pretty damn good.  His FIG (look it up) had like the 4 smartest kids in ME (long story to explain why this is essentially true), so he felt like a relative dumbass (lol!) but a few of his "auto admit" buddies were struggling in the mid-2.'s GPA wise.  

I am happiest that he really grew up and learned how to fucking bust his hump until it bled studying, etc.  I mean that boy fucking cracked the books and got himself in a really good place gradewise.  However, he knows that a good part of that was "shit to get outta the way" and only a few engineering courses, as a freshman (yeah, he brought in some high school credits, but still took electives).  He did really well in 2 courses which often serve as weeders - Chem and Calc - and did well within the upper 25% norm in most of his other stuff.  Mainly I'm not obsessed with GPA, he did well but of course a parent's main hope is that he doesn't hit a freshman wall and flunk out/transfer out of Engineering.  You're right, that program is a fucking obstacle course through hell.  But he's mentally doing fantastic, and it wasn't all wine and roses through this first year.

He'll be a 4-year (hopefully) Engineering student at this point.  That's all I hoped for.  Now he can debauch and flunk out on his own if he wants.

Thats really awesome PHD! Sounds like a great first year on the 40 that will set him up for the next three.

[phdhorn 6224]

Yeah well your kids are probably going to run the country in 20 years as a triumvirate, so I'm putting in my kids' land grants now.  We want the D.C. area and the BBQ Trail around Austin.  Maybe College Station for a sewage treatment plant/waste dump, since it's pretty much that now, very little conversion overhead.

Oh, and not Pflugerville.  Too many fake water parks.

[SHOOTER12 8836]

47 minutes ago, Longhorn94 said:

I really liked the old thread wherein we discussed our kids getting into UT and asked questions about the process so I am restarting it here. Our oldest just finished his Sophomore year and will be a software engineer intern at Amazon this summer. He is in the Plan II Honors and Computer Science programs.

Our second oldest is graduating from LT next week and will be in the Plan II Honors and Economics programs in the Fall. He is also a Jefferson Scholar and was just awarded a full 4 year scholarship by UT! 

Our third is our only girl and we will be touring campus next week. She is interested in Environmental Science. If anyone has any experience or information about the Environmental Science Program at UT, we would love to hear it! She is also interested in the University of Washington right now but hopefully UT will win out in the end.

 

Congrats 94, I can only imagine how proud you and Mrs. 94 must be.

[Longhorn94 2458]

14 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Yeah well your kids are probably going to run the country in 20 years as a triumvirate, so I'm putting in my kids' land grants now.  We want the D.C. area and the BBQ Trail around Austin.  Maybe College Station for a sewage treatment plant/waste dump, since it's pretty much that now, very little conversion overhead.

Oh, and not Pflugerville.  Too many fake water parks.

let's start with seeing if they can figure out how to wash their clothes, make a meal, or generally do anything required to live in the real world before we start discussing world domination! lol

[UTCzech III 2907]

Since this is the humblebrag thread, child #2 graduates tomorrow night with his Masters in Civil Engineering (could also go in the graduation thread, can't wait to fight the shitshow at the Erwin Center tomorrow night, then turn around and be back in Austin at 8am for the Masters-only ceremony at Bass...).  He's already got a job lined up in Dallas, starts in the middle of June.  

When he was little, people thought he was "special", we never did, but he couldn't talk well and just seemed to be off in space  all the time.  Turned out, his hearing was all fucked up, even though they kept telling us, no, he doesn't need tubes or anything.  They actually put him in the pre-k for special kids.  Once we got everything figured out, my wife busted her ass one summer to work on his speech before he went to kindergarten.  Even when he was in school he never seemed "smart", he got good grades but never was a bookworm or anything. 

Our daughter was the genius, top of her class every year, graduated valedictorian, top score at state in Academic Decathlon.  The boy, I never figured it out, he played sports (never too "into" any one, but just to try them all, although he did finally hit a groove in cross-country), was first chair in band (thank you, that's my influence there), learned guitar solos by ear sitting in his room, just normal.  But damned if he didn't start taking all the math/science classes in high school and just acing them.  And then he got valedictorian as well.

Suddenly, it just all clicked.  My wife's dad was an engineer with the Highway Dept. for 30 years, so we kind of steered him that way, I don't think he really knew what else he wanted to do.  He just took to it like a duck to water.  My daughter, she's still probably technically smarter, she went to Rice, got a degree in linguistics, lives in Seattle now and draws comics while she's looking for a job.  Like I said, he's already got a job laid out, I think eventually him and a buddy from high school want to start their own firm.  Would have never in  a million years guessed how this would have turned out for the both of them.  And he plays in my polka band with me, father and son on stage together.  Couldn't be prouder.  

[chesthair 231]

My soon to be soph (in High School) dreams of going to UT.  However, he is only in the top 12% and is white so i know there is zero chance.  

[Longhorn94 2458]

11 minutes ago, UTCzech III said:

Since this is the humblebrag thread, child #2 graduates tomorrow night with his Masters in Civil Engineering (could also go in the graduation thread, can't wait to fight the shitshow at the Erwin Center tomorrow night, then turn around and be back in Austin at 8am for the Masters-only ceremony at Bass...).  He's already got a job lined up in Dallas, starts in the middle of June.  

When he was little, people thought he was "special", we never did, but he couldn't talk well and just seemed to be off in space  all the time.  Turned out, his hearing was all fucked up, even though they kept telling us, no, he doesn't need tubes or anything.  They actually put him in the pre-k for special kids.  Once we got everything figured out, my wife busted her ass one summer to work on his speech before he went to kindergarten.  Even when he was in school he never seemed "smart", he got good grades but never was a bookworm or anything. 

Our daughter was the genius, top of her class every year, graduated valedictorian, top score at state in Academic Decathlon.  The boy, I never figured it out, he played sports (never too "into" any one, but just to try them all, although he did finally hit a groove in cross-country), was first chair in band (thank you, that's my influence there), learned guitar solos by ear sitting in his room, just normal.  But damned if he didn't start taking all the math/science classes in high school and just acing them.  And then he got valedictorian as well.

Suddenly, it just all clicked.  My wife's dad was an engineer with the Highway Dept. for 30 years, so we kind of steered him that way, I don't think he really knew what else he wanted to do.  He just took to it like a duck to water.  My daughter, she's still probably technically smarter, she went to Rice, got a degree in linguistics, lives in Seattle now and draws comics while she's looking for a job.  Like I said, he's already got a job laid out, I think eventually him and a buddy from high school want to start their own firm.  Would have never in  a million years guessed how this would have turned out for the both of them.  And he plays in my polka band with me, father and son on stage together.  Couldn't be prouder.  

wow! that is a great story!!! congrats to you, your wife, and your kids!!! 

[bernorange 8367]

My oldest son is a graduating high school senior this year.  He won't be going to UT (fucked around too much and didn't make the grades) even though it's where he would like to go.  Maybe he'll bust his ass getting good grades and an associates degree and transfer in two years.  Who knows.  Kid can definitely surprise when he's (self) motivated. 

[Beau Vine 54471]

Daughter is a soph EE at Mines.  I thought she waited waaaaay too late to apply for internships (I don't think she applied for one until late April), but she interviewed for a couple during finals week and last week got offered a $24/hour internship at Suncor in Denver.  

I'm starting to be OK with her turning down the full scholarship to Trinity.

And again, a hearty FUCK YOU to the UT admissions people.  

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

I just saw one of my old report cards from high school, and I highly doubt I'd get into ut with the grades I had.  Got lucky at the time I guess.

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23 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Daughter is a soph EE at Mines.  I thought she waited waaaaay too late to apply for internships (I don't think she applied for one until late April), but she interviewed for a couple during finals week and last week got offered a $24/hour internship at Suncor in Denver.  

I'm starting to be OK with her turning down the full scholarship to Trinity.

And again, a hearty FUCK YOU to the UT admissions people.  

Suncor is a big Accenture shop. You know how Accenture interns are (or were). Good luck.

[HenryJames 66193]

My daughter starts UT this summer. The UT Child Development Center to be more precise. She’s 15 months.

[workswithseed 2122]

 

9 hours ago, Longhorn94 said:

Glad to hear he did well his freshman year! I hear Cockrell is rough.

Yeah, she loves that part of the country so will have to continue to work on it...

Does she know how to drive in the snow? If not, you might tell her to get her boyfriwnd to drive her across the state.

Edited May 17, 2018 by workswithseed

[Anastasis 23473]

4 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

I just saw one of my old report cards from high school, and I highly doubt I'd get into ut with the grades I had.  Got lucky at the time I guess.

I wouldn't be able to sniff the door way today.  Turns out I got two doctorates from UT with a transfer in from ACC. I have some real concerns about what kind of system we are creating for our children in middle and high school.  It's insane.

 

That said, some of you guys are my heros. Love hearing about the academic success of the kids. Hope I don't fuck mine up too much. 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Anastasis

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I wouldn't be able to sniff the door way today.  Turns out I got two doctorates from UT with a transfer in from ACC. I have some real concerns about what kind of system we are creating for our children in middle and high school.  It's insane.

 

That said, some of you guys are my heros. Love hearing about the academic success of the kids. Hope I don't fuck mine up too much. 

 

 

I wouldn’t either.

I visited the local Chick-Fila in an affluent, well to do area with smart professionals and mainly white suburban kids and due to the senior/graduation season on the Wall were the senior photos of the employees, their names and colleges they were going to. 80% of them were going to junior/community college. 10% were going to directional commuter schools and only 10% were going on to a experience the state school college experience we all presumably had.

If these kids of privilege aren’t able to waltz in to a decent school, pledge a sorority, marry a smart privileged guy and begat the same for their next generation, then what hope do my elementary age children have? Unless maybe the poorer kids in the community are the ones working and maybe the scholars get a pass to focus on their GPA?

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Guest

[HenryJames 66193]

13 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Hope I don't fuck mine up too much. 

 

 

Do they know about Surly?

[DaggerHorns 3102]

I’m a graduate but I tried to fuck a sophomore the other night. I’m not sure about what her admission requirements were.

[TexasBeta 1267]

I wouldn’t either.
I visited the local Chick-Fila in an affluent, well to do area with smart professionals and mainly white suburban kids and due to the senior/graduation season on the Wall were the senior photos of the employees, their names and colleges they were going to. 80% of them were going to junior/community college. 10% were going to directional commuter schools and only 10% were going on to a experience the state school college experience we all presumably had.
If these kids of privilege aren’t able to waltz in to a decent school, pledge a sorority, marry a smart privileged guy and begat the same for their next generation, then what hope do my elementary age children have? Unless maybe the poorer kids in the community are the ones working and maybe the scholars get a pass to focus on their GPA?
 

I know it’s stupid and selfish ... but my wife and I talk about which high school to put the kids in that gives them the best shot at top 7%.

If my kids end up at aggy Based On their come one come all philosophy I may just shoot myself.

That’s messed up. Maybe I should give up the ghost.

[closetojumping 62898]

39 minutes ago, TexasBeta said:

 

I know it’s stupid and selfish ... but my wife and I talk about which high school to put the kids in that gives them the best shot at top 7%.

If my kids end up at aggy Based On their come one come all philosophy I may just shoot myself.

That’s messed up. Maybe I should give up the ghost.

 

My daughter was in the top 10%, but not 8%, and that mattered for UT, so she went to ATM with her best friend and I paid for it.  She’s at Johns Hopkins for grad school now and has done some cool shit in a short period of time professionally. It still comes down to what’s within the individual. Still, yeah, it frigging sucks that that’s where she went. 

[TexasBeta 1267]

My daughter was in the top 10%, but not 8%, and that mattered for UT, so she went to ATM with her best friend and I paid for it.  She’s at Johns Hopkins for grad school now and has done some cool shit in a short period of time professionally. It still comes down to what’s within the individual. Still, yeah, it frigging sucks that that’s where she went. 

I have about 6 years till the first so we will see what the world looks like then ...

Worse case I come from a long line of Citadel grads ... me being the outlier... so there’s always that.... better than that other option.

[pacman 7375]

9 hours ago, chesthair said:

My soon to be soph (in High School) dreams of going to UT.  However, he is only in the top 12% and is white so i know there is zero chance.  

Soon to be junior is top 6%, shooting for top 5. Book smart kid, hard worker.

Only issue is she has college sport opportunities but not at ut, yet. Not likely but she will try. Not sure what she will choose if she has to play sports elsewhere.

 

I sure as shit never would have gotten into UT with today's standards.

Edited May 18, 2018 by pacman

[Roofle 300]

I transferred into undergrad Computer Science at Texas 10 years ago and I’m about 1000% sure I couldn’t pull the same thing off today. Our entrance requirements are becoming absolutely insane.

[gsoda3 3284]

My daughter was in the top 10%, but not 8%, and that mattered for UT, so she went to ATM with her best friend and I paid for it.

Name checks out.

[Longhorn94 2458]

HOLY CRAP! My daughter just got her SAT score this morning and she scored higher than both of her brothers!!! I am one proud papa to say the least. But seriously, I guess their Mama is smarter than I thought because there is no way they are getting any of this from me. Wow... Now I just need UT to work its magic and convince her to stay home for college!!!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Longhorn94

[NoRagrets 1127]

I'll pay for private school before I let one of my kids go aggy.

[Mr. Drummond 2199]

Youngest graduated high school last year in top 15% so no UT for her, but she capped in - made a 3.8 this year at UTSA and transferring into UT nursing tract in August.

Neither daughter was able to get into UT right out of high school  (oldest was/is an athlete and youngest cheer leader) and both in top 15% in hard asian high school in Sugar Land.

Oldest graduated from UT with a 3.9 with two degrees in bio and psychology and starting her masters at Trinity in August in their Hospital Admin program.

 

So if you have a high schooler, don't stress too much about where they go as a freshman - if they put in the work, they can get in and come out better than the auto qualifiers. 

 

[Leeroy Jenkins 2416]

20 hours ago, chesthair said:

My soon to be soph (in High School) dreams of going to UT.  However, he is only in the top 12% and is white so i know there is zero chance.  

 My soon to be Soph wants to go to UT.  All A's so far and is right inside the top 7% for now.   I am not sure how well she will do on the SAT.  She did pretty well on the PSAT but not great.  I was never great at that test.  I rocked the ACT and I went into that test completely blind as I had hardly even heard of it (wasn't big in the MD area).    I was able to get into the Naval Academy because I was number one in my class but I was also well rounded (band and I lettered in two sports).   

I don't know what she is going to do for a major.  She is a good writer and a very good actress but she understand the need for a degree that is marketable.  She has her first AP test today in Human Geo.  Fingers crossed.    

[chesthair 231]

My kids is in a brutal district.  He is ap/pre-ap top to bottom, straight a's, varsity athlete and varsity choir.  All of that gets him on the lip of top 10%.  He smoked the psat, like 99 percentile.  But he isnt top 7% so i assume he is fucked. 

[ABSR 5325]

18 hours ago, HenryJames said:

My daughter starts UT this summer. The UT Child Development Center to be more precise. She’s 15 months.

I'm a graduate of that program!   I think they still have case studies they do around young ABSR in how to best deal with behavioral issues.

[Player 4576]

My son finished up his first year on the 40 acres, and hasn’t said shit to me about his grades as an undeclared liberal arts student. He did manage to get himself on disciplinary probation, and the fraternity he pledged got kicked off campus.

He’s pretty much a chip off the old block.

Almost forgot - I also got a phone call from Callaway in the Fall threatening potential eviction for an unlicensed boxing ring that was hosting a weekly fight night in his living room.

Damn I miss college.

[Longhorn94 2458]

5 minutes ago, Player said:

My son finished up his first year on the 40 acres, and hasn’t said shit to me about his grades as an undeclared liberal arts student. He did manage to get himself on disciplinary probation, and the fraternity he pledged got kicked off campus.

He’s pretty much a chip off the old block.

Almost forgot - I also got a phone call from Callaway in the Fall threatening potential eviction for an unlicensed boxing ring that was hosting a weekly fight night in his living room.

Damn I miss college.

That's awesome!

[HenryJames 66193]

15 minutes ago, Player said:

My son finished up his first year on the 40 acres, and hasn’t said shit to me about his grades as an undeclared liberal arts student. He did manage to get himself on disciplinary probation, and the fraternity he pledged got kicked off campus.

He’s pretty much a chip off the old block.

Almost forgot - I also got a phone call from Callaway in the Fall threatening potential eviction for an unlicensed boxing ring that was hosting a weekly fight night in his living room.

Damn I miss college.

[phdhorn 6224]

LOL ↑ ↑ That earned a loud bellow out of me.  Fucking great.

[TexasBeta 1267]

I'll pay for private school before I let one of my kids go aggy.

I know it’s irrational and financially stupid but ... this right here. I don’t need that in my life. What if they turn red ass. Good Lord that would be tough.

[Anastasis 23473]

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[Anastasis 23473]

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