Happy New Year!

Well, we are well more than half way through our applications, but we've made a little fewer than half of the admission offers we'll make for 2011. Things will pick up speed from here on. We still expect to have about 95% of our offers made by the end of February.

Now seems like a good time to address wait list offers too. Plan II will offer the wait list option to a limited number of top applicants for whom we do not have enough spaces to make admission offers. If the number of applicants who were offered Plan II admission and accept the offer is low, Plan II will make offers of admission to some applicants on the wait list.

If you plan to attend UT Austin, regardless of your Plan II admission decision, the wait list is a no-brainer if it's offered to you. If you are seriously considering another school if you are not admitted to Plan II Honors, then you must consider your options carefully. If you do not pay the $200 UT Enrollment fee by May 1, 2011, Plan II cannot consider you for admission from the wait list. UT will cancel your admission offer; Plan II cannot reinstate your UT admission.

If you were offered the wait list option, rather than offered admission outright and you wish to be included on the Plan II Honors Program wait list, you must:

1) Respond/petition in writing, on or before Friday, April 15, 2011

o The letter requesting placement on the Plan II wait list, should be addressed to the Plan II Admissions Committee

o Send the letter to the attention of:

Jennifer Scalora, Director of Plan II Admissions
Plan II Honors, The University of Texas at Austin
1 University STA G3600
Austin, TX 78712-0569

2) 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. But if you applied using your transcript with grades only through the junior year, you should submit your senior year grades.)

o The grades and letter should be sent directly to the Plan II Honors office, (unlike the original application documents which had to be submitted to the UT Office of Admission).


If we do not receive written correspondence from you by April 15, we must assume that you have made other choices and no longer wish to be considered for admission by Plan II Honors. Remember too, that if you have not paid the $200 enrollment fee, UT will cancel your UT Austin admission, and Plan II Honors will not be able to consider you for admission from 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 Plan II 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 30-50 names. From that list, we might admit a modest number of applicants in mid-May.