A little less than half of the Plan II Honors admission offers have already been released. The rest of the offers will be released in January and February. All letters will go into the US mail system, via the UT campus mail system, on or before Friday, February 25, 2012. Applicants who have not already heard from Plan II Honors should expect to receive their notification by March 2, 2012.
We received more Plan II Honors applications this year than last. Although the numbers are not yet final. We expect to have about 100 to 125 more applications this year than 2011--about 1270 applications. We won't have final numbers until the UT Office of Admissions is able to complete the application processing. UT Austin received close to 36,000 applications for the fall of 2012, a 9% increase in applications from 2011. About 15,000 of those applications were received/completed in the final week before the deadline. So today, December 15, UT Admissions is still identifying, matching and imaging application documents. They are in maximum overdrive.
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank every Plan II applicant for your interest in the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin and for your hard work on the application itself. We know it's a time consuming process.
We are very fortunate that Plan II Honors receives so very many applications from so very many highly qualified students. But that also means that we must offer the wait list, or harder still, turn away, a significant number of extremely attractive applicants each year.
We know that many, if not most, of the applicants we deny, could perform quite well in the Program. And we know those same students would very often bring a lot of heart and soul TO the Program. Given the room, Plan II would be happy to invite more applicants into the program. But increasing the size of Plan II to admit all the strong applicants who apply would change Plan II in ways that would, essentially, kill the program.
For those applicants who are not admitted into Plan II, please remember that a student at UT Austin does not have to be in the Plan II Honors program to enjoy learning communities, have small class experiences or take advantage of many of the wonderful resources that make UT a great university. At UT Austin, the opportunities are almost endless: great advising, top faculty with a myriad of specializations, interesting curricula and programs, amazing support services where community and collegiality are always available.
Please take the time to investigate a few of the following the many exciting options that are available. Exploring the bounty that is UT Austin is one of the joys of being a student here at UT Austin: alternative interdisciplinary and enhancement programs.
They are all excellent programs and most have some degree of flexibility that could make them, perhaps, even better fits for a student interested in a program such as Plan II Honors.
Good luck to all!
