<p>Rank: within the top 5 students, class size around 550</p>
<p>Employed for about a year
volunteer work around 150-200 hrs
not too many clubs due from 9-11th grade because of a medical issue
about 2-3 clubs this year (one is a very uncommon extracurricular though that serves a good purpose)</p>
<p>AP Classes</p>
<p>Calc, Stat
Bio, Physics
Language, Literature
World History</p>
<p>I know its really competitive, but how much of a chance do I stand?</p>
<p>SAT is a tad lower than I’d hope for (2200+) but class rank is on par and your medical issue could be powerful essay material especially for a bio-medical related major. Assuming you’re in state and you wrote good essays, I’d give you a decent shot. My guess is 70% chance on the old system that placed a high value on % rank.</p>
<p>However, the new system looks at your application holistically and the rest of your app is pretty average. Regardless, if you pump out strong essays then you can quickly get a great chance again.</p>
<p>I would say you have a pretty good chance. Your SAT is good enough, though that’s a rather low score for the Math section. Apart from that your other stats are good, plenty of volunteering and work experience.</p>
<p>If you write a good, honest essay you’ll probably get in. What I mean is don’t pretty up your essay with a thesaurus. I probably had 20 grammatical mistakes in mine, but I wrote about a hiking trip dilemma, which I would think is a little uncommon.</p>
<p>I got into Mechanical engineering with 2040 on my SATs, 800 Math, 570 Reading(lol), 670 Writing. English is not my first language though so I guess they must have considered that. I got 760 in Math 1 Subject Test and 780 on Physics. All this, and I’m out of state.</p>
<p>Not to depress you, but my son (a Texas resident) had similar stats and did not get into BME (similar SAT, your class rank is better, but he had much better ECs, more AP classes and attended a super-competitive, nationally ranked HS). He was, however, admitted to his second choice, CHE. He was bummed at first, but once he realized that he can get where he wants to go with a CHE degree–and have a lot more internship and job opportunities–he is now really excited about the CHE program and loves being a CHE. At UT, there are 6 or 7 subspecialties within CHE and at least two relate directly to biomedical engineering. So check it out, and be sure to put CHE as your second choice on the Cockrell application–just in case. Good luck!</p>
<p>Zinala, would you mind telling me your son’s class rank? It used to be such an unfortunately large factor of the application. Perhaps if he were just a year younger the new holistic reviewing might have recognized how competitive high HS was. In any case, the ChE job opportunities really are much better than those of a BME. I’m sure your son will find ChE very rewarding.</p>
<p>I believe (it’s amazing how quickly you forget the numbers once the process is over) he was 8/168–within the top 5-6%. He was auto-admitted to UT within a week or so after he applied in October 2010, but didn’t find out he had been admitted to Cockrell/CHE until Feb. 15. We figured there was quite a bit of holistic reviewing going on last year, given the long wait. A classmate of his who was super-qualified (valedictorian, NMS, etc.) was offered admittance to BME much earlier (he ended up going elsewhere), so it seems that there may have been a first round, followed by more BME offers if people in the first group chose not to accept. Anyway, the point is, BME is really, really competitive and no one should feel bad about not getting in, especially as one can still enter the BME field with a CHE degree.</p>
<p>On another SAT score, my math was 760. My total score there was exactly the same as this total score, but my writing score was less (and reading exactly the same). Should I send that score instead since engineering might place more weight on math?</p>
<p>hey, I just got into bme and honestly didn’t think I had the capability.</p>
<p>my extracurriculars and course load stack up against yours but my rank is significantly lower. they say that bme usually looks at 3% and high sats but I’m lower and submitted act instead, which had high section scores for math and science but meh composite scores. </p>
<p>I assume the holistic approach helped me get in; to amp up your app, write phenomenally passionate essays. that medical condition you mentioned might help you out good luck! and it would be cool if you did bme with me but I wouldn’t know it’s you lol</p>
good luck! and it would be cool if you did bme with me but I wouldn’t know it’s you lol</p>