Can I get into UT McCombs Business School?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Hi! I’m a white female trying to figure out my chances of getting into UT Austin McCombs Business:

  • I am ranked 34 out of my class of a little under 580 I think, so basically upper end of 5%- within the in-state 6% barely
  • GPA is 98.2%
  • 32 ACT score
  • I am varsity cheer captain, VP of NHS, President of SNHS and Spanish Club, and am involved in Student council, junior world affairs council, a school-oriented service league and Young Life
  • Outisde of school I am in Girl Scouts and National Charity League doing about 250+ hours in my high school life
  • I have worked the past two summers as a lifeguard
  • AP tests: Human Geo(4), WHAP(4), U.S History(3), English(4), Psychology(5), Spanish Language(3), and this year I’m taking Statistics and Macroeconomics which I expect to do well on
    -Will do a Marketing/PR related internship during Spring semester of senior year at a company which is namesake of the PR/Advertising School in Moody, but don’t know if that will help me for McCombs
  • I hope to write a good essay but I am not banking on it to make/break my admissions
  • My teacher recs will be good, but probably not superb by any means.
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Those are super impressive stats, ngl. I know UT accepts top *% automatically so that won’t be a problem, but McCombs is more intense, since I think it’s like the top 20 for best business school in the nation, over colleges like Rice, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown, so that should be blatant for how hard it is. But a 32 on the ACT should definitely help your chances, and they’ll probably be impressed by how you were VP of NHS. I’d say, in my opinion, your chances of getting in would be like ~70%. If you write a killer essay like you said you’ll be writing, then honestly, it’d be foolish of them rejecting you. My friend was like top 40% in his class and a 29 on his ACT and got accepted into McCombs. Hope this helps.

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It’s ranked 6th in the US according to U.S. News and World Reports. But I still think you have a great chance. The average ACT for incoming freshman for McCombs was a 32.