Chance me for UT Austin Engineering!

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Asian male, Texas resident, Incoming senior

Intended major: Electrical & Computer Engineering

ACT: 32 (English:31 Math:35 Reading:29 Science:33)

SAT: 2120 Math:750 Reading:680 Writing:690

SAT II: Math II: 800 Chemistry: 780

Class rank: 13/596 (Top 2%)

GPA: UW GPA: ~3.8 (Not sure about weighted)

Coursework: All Honors/AP courses, school doesn’t usually let students take AP’s before junior year except AP world history which is taken sophomore year

Sophomore year:
AP world history (5)

Junior year:
AP Calc AB (5)
AP Stats (5)
AP Chemistry (4)
AP Physics I (3)
AP English Language (4)
AP Chinese (5)

Senior year (Planned courses):
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP Biology
AP English Literature
AP Comp Sci

Awards:
Not really any awards, except for the school 4.0 GPA (weighted) award, AP scholar with distinction, plus some awards from piano competitions

Extracurriculars:
-Member of Mu Alpha Theta (Math honor society)
-Member of French Honor society (Took AP French in junior year, but decided wasn’t going to take that AP test, so I took AP Chinese *native Chinese speaker)
-Member of engineering club
-Volunteered at organizations for kids at risk and special needs over the summer
-Piano
-Orchestra (Quit at the end of sophomore year)

Also worth mentioning is that I have taken/will take rigorous courses in high school related to my major, such as digital electronics, engineering for the digital future, and computer integrated manufacturing.
So TL;DR: Asian male with pretty decent class rank, average test scores, and shitty EC’s. How are my chances to get into UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering for ECE?

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Your stats are very similar to my son’s and he is starting ECE this year. He is an Asian male, TX resident, ACT 34, SAT (just under 2100, can’t recall all but know math was 750), no SAT II, class rank 22/about 700 so top 2-3%… Sons school activities were Mu Alpha Theta(1 yr), French honor society(3 yrs) and marching band(4 yrs). He volunteered at the library and had leadership in his church youth group. As an ECE major, you will likely be able to use very few of your AP credits. Son is using AP Calc AB or BC (he got 5 in both). He also got AP Stat (5), AP Chem (4), AP Physics 1(4), AP Englilsh (3), AP French (3), AP World Hist (5), AP Comp Sci (4). He is only claiming the Calculus credit and skipping the first semester of Calc but all other AP credit courses are not on the ECE degree plan. It costs $20 to claim each credit and there is not much benefit to claiming. No sense to claim just to use as an elective credit that does not count on the degree plan. He does place out of an English class but not sure if he is using the AP credit or ACT score for the credit. He took American History, Government and Econ at the community college to use as high school credits and he should be able to use the History and Govt. Son applied late November and did not find out about his major until February. He was not accepted into honors.

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parentof3kids- you said he might have used act score to get out of college english?..
never heard of that… how does that work?

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You can get credit for the freshman rhetoric class with a high enough SAT or ACT writing score. See site below.

http://ctl.utexas.edu/studenttesting/exams?field_subject_area_tid=10&field_exam_type_tid=All&combine=

You can also get credit for physics with a high enough SAT Physics score.