Can I Get Into These Texas Colleges?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello everyone.

I’m a junior in high school and was wondering my chances on getting admitted into these Texas colleges. Here are some facts about me

-I attend one of the most competitive and strongest public schools in my state (Top 5 in state and Top 50 in nation)

-I have a 28 ACT (taking it again in June and hoping for around a 30) Breakdown of Scores: Math-33, Reading-32, Science-26, English-21, Writing- 12 out of 12

-I volunteer as part of my local government. I act as a jury member in court and have spent around 30 hours volunteering in court along with 50 total volunteer hours at food banks, homeless shelters and animal shelters (will be volunteering a lot in the summer so that should increase drastically)

-3.2-3.3 High School GPA (I grew up in NJ, and went to a pretty poor school in 9th grade, the atmosphere was different and not competitive at all. During that 9th grade summer, I moved to Texas and attended this Top 5 in state/Top 50 in nation High School for all of sophomore year and will complete my High School education here. The obvious increase in difficulty and responsibility was evident and sophomore year started kind of rough. I managed to cope with the pressure and end off Junior year with a 3.2-3.3 GPA.

  • Class Rank is top 50%, due to the change of environment.
  • I have been involved in Extra-Curricular activities. I'm a member of the band. Highly seated and play Baritone, Tuba and Flute. I am a member of my Church's youth group and meet bi-weekly for bible study and volunteering. I have played club soccer for the last 3 years. I have competed in competitive Kickboxing for the last 3 years. I am an officer in my schools Art History, Neuroscience, and Psychology clubs and I'm an active member of the Key Club. I am trying to start a Boxing club in my school and hopefully will have success with that.
  • I am Multilingual and speak English,French and Spanish

Schools that I’m considering

  • Texas A&M
    -Texas Tech
  • Texas State
  • UNT
  • Baylor (is this a reach?)

Can I get into these colleges? Thanks in advance for all the help guys.

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What is your class rank? That will be a big factor for A&M.

I think you are in good shape for Tech, UNT, Texas State and Baylor.

A&M is hard to say without your rank. If you are top 10 percent, you are auto admit, but not necessarily to your major of choice. Apply early. If you are top quarter then you need the 30 on the ACT or you will have to go the review admit route. Your ECs are strong but review admits are really tough.

Baylor is less of a reach than A&M. They will be more holistic in their review as well. Baylor does say that a very high percentage of their class is top quarter.

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Top 50%. Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot about it. Edited into the OP

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Top 50% and 28 ACT net you automatic admission into Texas Tech.
Source: http://www.admissions.ttu.edu/index.php/admission-financial_aid/first-time-freshmen/

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You look solid for all but TX A&M. Did you take the ACT again last Tuesday? Your English section is low given your reading and writing scores. Your other scores are all much better than your English score which leads me to think that there are certain “rules” and “conventions” that you don’t know. Grammar has not been taught well in my own childrens’ highly ranked Texas public schools, and targeted studying could help your scores.

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Baylor says 75 percent of freshmen were top quarter. So Baylor is likely a stretch. A&M is likely to give you Blinn Team or send you to Tarleton, Commerce or Corpus for a year first. If you go to the A&M forum, you can read a lot about those programs.

If you google the other schools names and auto admit, you’ll find their criteria. I think you meet all the others’ requirements.

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I really wanted to go to Texas A&M’s business program without having to transfer in from another college. I’m hoping to get lucky. I’ll definitely apply to all these colleges, Also @txstella… I took the last act, it was my first try. I’ll be writing my second one in June.

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You’ll get into all of them, except for A&M. I think you’ll get offered Blinn team there.