Chance me for Mccombs Honors

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Hello all! I am your average CCer going into my senior year after this summer. I know these posts are bothersome, but this can help calm me for applications.

Objective:
ACT score: 35C (34 English, 36 Math, 34 reading, 36 Science), single sitting
SAT II (subject, score): Math 2 - 800, World history-780, biology-720
Unweighted/Weighted GPA: 3.84/4.00 ish UW, 5.23/6.00 Weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 12%
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): APUSH (4), AP Lang (3). AP Calc AB (5). AP Stat (5). AP Comp (5). AP Environmental (4), AP biology (4) Ap wh (4).
New PSAT-1470/1520, 218 SI

next year I will take AP calc BC, AP physics C, AP chemistry, Ap Literature, AP Gov, and AP econ

major awards
-Ap scholar with distinction
-National merit semifinalist maybe
-AIME qualifier

Extracurriculars

-Boy scouts, Was SPL of a troop with 100+ kids, almost eagle scout
-DECA member, went to state
-Debate club varsity member at my school
-python club member at my school
-Math circle member at my school
-Doing a college level Internship at a tech company(bazaarvoice) in their sales department
-mentor of a lego robotics team that made it to internationals and were finalists for the global innovation award 2014 FLL world class
-Director of Haptic vision app platform (app that helps visually impaired kids with learning on ipads)
-tutoring kids at my local middle school for mathcounts (I used to do mathcounts as well and was on the school team for that middle school, but that was in 8th grade and I’m not sure that applies)
-also tutor my neighbors with math help

Recommendations

I asked my Calc teacher and my stat teacher to give me recommendations, I am generally enthusiastic in their classes, probably will get some good rec letters.

Other
State: texas, in austin
School: Westwood high school, is a large competitive high school
Ethnicity: asian (indian)
Gender: male
Income bracket: $150k+
Hooks: probably none other than the fact that I am doing an college level internship in sales whereas most companies don’t kids come in, only kids I know get internships are for medical fields, I don’t personally know anyone with internships in like tech or business fields.

Thanks for any comments you leave.

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To give you a frame of reference, DS applied last year with lower test scores than you but, much stronger ECs and a higher class rank. He was not selected for BHP. After doing some research on it, we’re pretty sure it was his rank that was the issue. He had a top 2% friend with equivalent scores and low EC activities who did get a BHP offer.

The good news is that DS found out he was accepted into McCombs in December as opposed to February. (He was not an auto admit.)

Obviously apply but, it’s definitely not an easy call to guess your chances. Good luck!

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Thanks for your insight @PokeyJoe. Bump for visibility

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Bump for visibility