Hey guys, I'm new. I've been following this thread for some time now and since I attended a lecture from Dr. Wayne Samuelson yesterday, I thought I'd fill you all in on some goods (maybe it's old news for most of you).
The lecture was held in the SOM and was mostly geared toward pre-meds, sort of an "applying 101" thing.
Just some random things I took from it:
- 548 interviews were granted total.
- 30 seats WILL NOT be added this year and most likely not next year either due to failure to procure the proper amount of funding from UT legislature.
- The reason things are going slower IS because of a larger volume of applications ~1300.
- The ratio of IS/OOS in this larger number is "same as usual".
- When asked "When will decisions be mailed out?", Sam. replied: "in a couple of weeks." (I called the admiss. office after and she said "within the last week of March and first week of April.")
- He went over their application grading system and why early decisions are sent out. (if you don't already know I can explain later)
- The U generally DOES NOT over-accept (if they do it's only a couple of spots), only wait-list after class is filled (102 seats).
- Wouldn't say how many acceptances, etc. have been sent out to date.
For my part, I interviewed first week of Nov. still waiting for a decision. Three of my friends have been rejected, two accepted (one 03-12-08, interviewed end of Jan). And that sets a new record for longest first post...