BHP/Turing Partnership?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Hi all,

I am a junior planning on studying comp sci and business in college, and this program looks great for me.

I am an auto-admit at a Texas school, and the rest of my stats are on another discussion I started.

I wanted to know any details/chances/recommendations about the new bhp/turing partnership that UT has.

https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/BHP/Admissions/Application-Requirements

Thanks

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I you should call the BHP office and ask to speak with students currently doing the program and form your opinion. My S did this and it really helped him.

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Turing has gotten increasingly competitive over the years as computer science grows more and more popular. I have similar stats to you (NMF, 1560 SAT, 800 M2, 790 BioM, nanotech research at UH, etc etc) and was rejected from Turing. Our valedictorian with perfect SAT scores was also rejected.

I fell like you have a very good chance at BHP with your ECs, but I think Turing wants to see more focus on CS itself and not overall excellence.

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Also, do you have to be accepted to Turing Scholar and BHP? Or just be accepted to this program? If just the partnership, I think you’d have a decent chance

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You have to be accepted to both – separate applications and decisions. Each program looks for completely different skills/attributes so it is a rare person that would be accepted to both. In my opinion, if accepted to both, I don’t know how a student would give each program what is required since one requires all your time (Turing) and one requires you to spend a significant amount of time in campus and organization leadership (BHP). Seems like it would be a very difficult balancing act.

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@CollegeParent123 It’s probably an attempt by the administration to increase entrepreneurship and startup companies by undergrads. It’s obvious UT is lacking in this when compared to the top CS schools. I do agree, however, that it seems like a difficult time management issue.

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@aristos based on my LH’s experiences, I don’t believe UT is lacking at all in entrepreneurship…it is one of the compelling reasons to attend either Bhp or CS at UT Austin. Is it Cambridge or Palo Alto? no…but Austin is catching up and is comfortably ahead of any others.

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cs major here and I think the Turing program is very competitive (not sure about the business honor one). I once looked at its curriculum and it seemed like you have to do some kind of research and complete a thesis before the graduation, not saying that all required major coursework are replaced by honor versions which are even more difficult than some already insanely hard classes… but good luck!