Today is the first day of school! It's so exciting to see the campus wake up again after a long (very) hot summer. It's still very hot--we can't seem to escape the record breaking days. So it's a good thing we have so much great stuff to look forward to this semester.

I'm also very excited and pleased to have received so many nice comments on our new website. I know it makes it easier for our prospective and current students to find the information they need. I still plan to add more information and lots of images, but the focus was getting the information on admissions and advising up and complete for our prospective and current students.

I'm also looking forward to the start of this semester's information sessions. Plan II information sessions will begin again on Friday, September 11. In addition to a LOT of information, applicants (and parents/family members) have a chance to ask questions. Best of all, the applicants get to attend a Plan II class and meet some Plan II students and at least one professor. Sign up as soon as you can for a session. See Visit Plan II.

Applications have already begun to trickle in electronically. Although Plan II will not receive applications for review from UT Admissions for a couple of weeks, I can see them electronically. There's no panic to submit an application this early. But it's really important to keep an eye on that priority deadline of November 1. If you am to have you application complete within a week or two of that deadline, you're in good shape. Remember, procrastination can hurt your chances of admission if you're applying to Plan II Honors.