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University of Texas at Austin | UT Austin’s 2023-24 Essay Prompts
Why This Major Short Response
Why are you interested in the major you indicated as your first-choice major?
Diversity Short Response
Describe how your experiences, perspectives, talents, and/or your involvement in leadership activities (at your school, job, community, or within your family) will help you to make an impact both in and out of the classroom while enrolled at UT.
Why This College Short Response
The core purpose of The University of Texas at Austin is, To Transform Lives for the Benefit of Society. Please share how you believe your experience at UT-Austin will prepare you to Change the World after you graduate.
Additional Info Short Response
Please share background on events or special circumstances that you feel may have impacted your high school academic performance.
If your response to this question is similar to one of the Common App Personal Essays, feel free to simply copy and paste the important parts of your essay here.
Your Story Essay
Tell us your story. What unique opportunities or challenges have you experienced throughout your high school career that have shaped who you are today?
Architecture Short Response 1
Inherent in the design disciplines the capacity to impact the world around us. What does the opportunity to develop such capacity mean to you and you approach to your college education?
Architecture Short Response 2
Please provide and upload three images total that demonstrate your creativity. The three images may all be of one option type, or varied amongst the two following options:
Option 1 – Either an original photograph or photographs from a camera, smart phone/mobile device, OR
Option 2 – Images of an original art or design project that you have produced and authored yourself.
For all, describe how the three images are representative of how you see creativity as a way to describe, reflect on, or change the world.
Art/Art History Essay
In 500 words or less, please tell us about a time when an artwork, artist or art teacher impacted your life. How did this inspire you to pursue an education in the arts?
Nursing Short Response
Discuss the factors that have influenced your motivation and deep desire to pursue a career in Nursing. Please include any activities and/or life experiences that are related.
ApplyTexas Essays
Schools using ApplyTexas will have specific guidelines for how many of the following essays are required, if any. Some schools are also on the Common App, so you may respond to those prompts instead in that case.
Option 1
Tell us your story. What unique opportunities or challenges have you experienced throughout your high school career that have shaped who you are today?
Option 2
Most students have an identity, an interest, or a talent that defines them in an essential way. Tell us about yourself.
Option 3
You’ve got a ticket in your hand – Where will you go? What will you do? What will happen when you get there?
Option 4
(specific to majors in architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education): Personal interaction with objects, images and spaces can be so powerful as to change the way one thinks about particular issues or topics. For your intended area of study (architecture, art history, design, studio art, visual art studies/art education), describe an experience where instruction in that area or your personal interaction with an object, image or space effected this type of change in your thinking. What did you do to act upon your new thinking and what have you done to prepare yourself for further study in this area?
