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hey, guys (current msbs student). from my PI's discussion with a faculty member involved with admissions, some extra things that shed a little more light onto the situation that has come up. (if you don't care about what happened to current msbs skip to 3)
1) last year the admissions board was very disappointed with the way the M1 class turned out.
they ended up having to accept many people they would not have normally accepted because they had the MSBS seats in mind. therefore, because they review MSBS applicants last, they under-booked the class with regular applicants and it was too late to fill with candidates that were more to their standards. this lead them to accept every MSBS student that was wait-listed (presumably those that didn't deserve acceptances), and sending out late interview requests in a desperate attempt to fill all their seats. essentially, the MSBS class burned them.
2) this year the admissions board is also disappointed with the way the M1 class turned out.
they ended up digging deeper into regular applicants and gave away seats to, what ended up being, less qualified students than many of the deferred MSBS students. this is due to the fact that they wanted to reduce the number of MSBS'ers they took (vide infra). this lead them to offer deferrals because they did, in fact, want to take these deferred students into this year's M1 class, but couldn't. therefore, they did the next best thing.
3) the reason why the admissions board wants to take less MSBS students is because UT is seeing a decrease in residency placements and an increase in out of country residency placements (both bad things for the university) and they found that most of these students not placing or having to do residency out of the country were former MSBS students.
as you can see it turned out to be a perfect storm. what this says about MSBS '15-'16 class? other than they are definitely being more selective with whom they take into their M1 class from MSBS, i would GUESS they they will start assessing applicants as a whole, be more selective with matriculations, and all historic % mean nothing anymore (not that it ever did).
1) last year the admissions board was very disappointed with the way the M1 class turned out.
they ended up having to accept many people they would not have normally accepted because they had the MSBS seats in mind. therefore, because they review MSBS applicants last, they under-booked the class with regular applicants and it was too late to fill with candidates that were more to their standards. this lead them to accept every MSBS student that was wait-listed (presumably those that didn't deserve acceptances), and sending out late interview requests in a desperate attempt to fill all their seats. essentially, the MSBS class burned them.
2) this year the admissions board is also disappointed with the way the M1 class turned out.
they ended up digging deeper into regular applicants and gave away seats to, what ended up being, less qualified students than many of the deferred MSBS students. this is due to the fact that they wanted to reduce the number of MSBS'ers they took (vide infra). this lead them to offer deferrals because they did, in fact, want to take these deferred students into this year's M1 class, but couldn't. therefore, they did the next best thing.
3) the reason why the admissions board wants to take less MSBS students is because UT is seeing a decrease in residency placements and an increase in out of country residency placements (both bad things for the university) and they found that most of these students not placing or having to do residency out of the country were former MSBS students.
as you can see it turned out to be a perfect storm. what this says about MSBS '15-'16 class? other than they are definitely being more selective with whom they take into their M1 class from MSBS, i would GUESS they they will start assessing applicants as a whole, be more selective with matriculations, and all historic % mean nothing anymore (not that it ever did).