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Hi nursesuziatx. My apologies for the delay. Given my longterm goals, I actually switched my application to the AE-PhD program rather than the LeaDs. Had an interview for that 28Nov, finishing up my prereqs then I am guessing will hear someone in January after those are reviewed. I haven't caught up on all of the posts yet, but I am hoping you got an interview for LeaDs if you switched! I have heard, from discussions with current students/faculty, that LeaDs has a much higher acceptance rate. So crossing my fingers for you. You can look at each years admissions/enrollment statistics online. Here is the link to it: Admissions & Enrollment Statistics | Graduate School | The University of Texas at Austin the school of nursing is one of the last couple pages:)

Hi All, I too received the email re: not being considered for review. I inquired further, and Tracy is receptive to inquiries re: feedback if that is something you would like. To provide a little more detail, they do a pre-review process as a means of triaging applications. They only review the top 40% of applicants solely based on your GPA/GRE scores. Those of us that were already contacted and offered LeaDs (rather than PMHNP) were not within the top 40% to be reviewed. Though I understand it systemically given the large # of apps they get and the few spots they have, but I share y'alls frustration in that all of our materials were not considered. My GRE was not my top priority because I wasn't aware of the aforementioned, so I prioritized my 3 prereqs and 2 labs they require rather than my GRE given the GRE, in large, will not be as applicable as the pre-reqs. I have a 7 month old daughter, work a full time clinical research position @ UT, see a patient at a neuropsychology clinic once a week, and have experience in conducting psychotherapy (through my time in grad school for clin psych) as well as 4 years worth of clinical research experience in psychiatric populations. None of that was even considered solely based on this pre-review process. Again, I totally get it from their end, they can't review every application they get...but still BEYOND frustrating. On a positive note, based on the response I received from Tracy, I believe this prereview is specific to the PMHNP track. Those who haven't heard back are having their applications reviewed, and will hopefully hear back relatively soon re: interviews :) Good luck to those who receive an interview! Wishing you all the best.

Probably will not start hearing back re: interviews until next week or the following. The first couple of weeks after the submission deadline are spent weeding out all applications that were not complete. Then it goes through a department review immediately after. That lasts roughly a couple weeks as well. Wishing everyone luck in the process, and hopefully we start receiving interview invitations soon :)