Chance me for UT Austin

Thanks for looking! pretty stressed haha. Applying to most Texas schools, aiming for UT College of Natural Sciences (Biology) as a non-auto admit

Demographics: Indian/Black (Nigerian). No hooks, maybe URM? also both parents are green card immigrants

Academics: 3.43 UW/4.45 W, top 9% of the class, IB diploma candidate. UW GPA is messed up at my school, as my lowest grade was B-, with most of my grades centering around A- and A’s.

1510 SAT (780 M, 730 r/W). Taken August during COVID

IB/AP: 4 AP’s (3,4,4,3) (taking AP Econ later this year), IB Diploma candidate (IB Hindi- 4, rest of the exams ill take senior year), AP scholar and scholar with honor

EC’s:

Biology Club Founder (12)

Science Club Member (10-12)

Marching band of nationally ranked band

-Student leader for tuba section 11th grade

-Brass Captain 12th

-Won various competitions, placed 10th and 3rd on national competitions

Tuba

-First chair throughout playing career (7-12)

-TMEA region 4x

-TMEA Area 2x

-Won a local (north texas) solo competition out of 60 players across instruments

-UIL State Solo/Ensemble

Hindi Club, Co-president (10-12)

Quiz League, Captain (11-12)

MUN participant (11-12)

Community service

-Local Food Bank (272 hours, through 3 years)

-Public Library (96 hours, 1 year)

-North Texas Aquatic Conservatory

       -Aims to organize efforts to manually clean local lakes in my area

       -18 hours

       -Founding Member

Work/Other stuff

Cardiology shadowing

-pretty proud of myself, cold-emailed cardiologists in my area, and got to work and shadow with a local one near me. Really helped my passion

- Body shop over the summer to help pay bills, should I include?

Essays/LOR

LOR:

-One from biology teacher, pretty good I think

-History teacher, known me throughout high school and seen me grow.

Essays: started 2 months ago and I will say they’re pretty good. I have a couple of people reading it (a former AO, a yale attendee, and some really talented writing friends and teachers). I won’t be as stubborn to say 9/10, but it’s def above a 7/10 to a high 8/10.

Thank you for reading! again, UT for biology as a non-auto admit