The Dean's Scholars Program

Dean's Scholars Program Online Application

For a special application for current or transfer students, click here.

You may also request that a written application 
be mailed to your address.

Applications should be submitted prior to February 15, 2003. Applications received after that date may be considered only in extraordinary circumstances.

 

To apply for admission to the Dean's Scholars Program, complete each of the text fields in this form and click the "Submit this application" button at the bottom.

Also, send us by postal mail a copy of your high school transcript that is most recent. This should at least include eleventh grade. This must be an official transcript, stamped and signed by a school official. The transcript must include class rank even if it may be an estimate, unless it is the policy of your school not to reveal class rank.

Finally, ask two teachers, at least one of whom is a science or mathematics teacher, to complete the Faculty Reference forms. The forms, as well as your transcript, should be sent directly to:

Dean's Scholars Program
College of Natural Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1199

Full Name:

Email Address:

Social Security Number:

Date of Birth:

Postal Address:

City, State, and Zip:

Phone:

High School:

Most Recent Class Rank:
out of

Date of Ranking:

SAT scores: Highest total at single testing:

Verbal score (for that testing):

Mathematical score (for that testing):

Expected major(s):

1. List each school or community activity in which you have been involved during the last three years in order of their importance to you. Include your period of involvement and any positions you have held. Please list no more than ten.

2. List part-time or summer jobs, volunteer positions, or internships you have held during the last three years in order of their importance to you. Include your position, period of involvement, and hours per week. Please list no more than four.

3. List in order of their importance to you any significant honors and scholarships received during the last three years. Include the award sponsor, basis for the award (e.g. leadership, scholarship, need, etc.), and date received.

4. Identify your educational and career goals.

Note: Write a 300-500 word essay on Topic F below. On-line composition of these essays is not recommended. There are two options for electronic submission of the essays:

  1. Compose the essays on a word processor, then paste them into the appropriate text boxes on the on-line application. Note: We have had some problems this semester receiving essays that were created in Microsoft Word format. If you are using Word and a pasted-in essay appears as one long line, break it up manually with some hard returns so that we will be certain to receive it in its entirety.
  2. Alternatively, you may write the essay using a word processor and send it to us via email. If you choose this option, be sure to send your essay in ASCII (plain text) format. Click here to submit it.


    3. Topic F: Explain a belief you accepted at some time in your life but have rejected on the basis of a rational process. Perhaps the change was initiated by something you heard or some experience you have had; but for this essay you must go beyond reporting what you heard or describing what happened to you. You must display the process of reasoning that carried you to your new belief. In your essay, be careful to explain the belief itself, reasons you had for holding it, and, most important, the rational process that led you to reject it.