<p>nevermind.</p>
<p>can i delete this post? the formatting messed up.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.192307692 (weighted)<br>
RANK: top 3.385%<br>
ACT: 31 </p>
<p>EDUCATION<br>
large, competitive, suburban, diverse high school. </p>
<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
06/10/08-08/21/08<br>
City Department </p>
<p>ACTIVITIES<br>
10th-12th<br>
Health Occupations Students of America<br>
Member (9th-10th), Vice-president (11th –Elected)<br>
running for president this year</p>
<p>Meals on Wheels<br>
Vice-president (11th—Interviewed), President </p>
<p>Austin Teen Court
Juror (7th-10th)<br>
Attorney (11th-12th)</p>
<p>Amnesty International
Member (11-12th)</p>
<p>Debate Team/ Forensics
Member (10th-12th)</p>
<p>Spanish Club
Member (9th-12th)</p>
<p>National Honor Society
Member (9th-12th)</p>
<p>SUMMER OF 2008 </p>
<p>Attorney training for Austin Teen Court
(after 3 years of jury duty for Teen Court)
• learned the basics of attorney presentation and court procedures. </p>
<p>Kid Capers Camp counselor
• learned valuable skills such as:
how to keep people’s attention
how to be assertive
how to be spontaneously creative </p>
<p>Office assistant for City Department
• learned valuable skills such as:
speed typing
how to keep calm during logistical emergencies
how to manage people well and amicably </p>
<p>City Theatre Assistant
• usher, theatre clean-up crew, anything else required of me.
• networking with people in the theatre arts</p>
<p>SUMMER OF 2009
Columbia Summer program
Took two undergraduate courses
• received college credit hours.
• gained exposure to many people around the world</p>
<p>HONORS & AWARDS
Academic:<br>
• AP Scholar with Distinction
Human Geography (10th grade): 5
English Language and composition (11th grade): 5
Macroeconomics (11th grade): 4
Microeconomics (11th grade): 4
Statistics (11th grade): 4
United States History (11th grade): 5</p>
<p>• National Merit Commendation<br>
• In the Gifted and Talented Program since elementary school
• Extended invitation into Duke Talent Identification Program after having received state and national level awards for performance on the Duke Talent Search SAT.<br>
• Extended membership to the National Honor Society, after having met high standards for GPA and community service fulfillment.
• Extended membership by invitation to National Spanish Honor Scoiety </p>
<p>Debate:
• Debate Quarter Finalist—11th
• Debate Quarter Finalist—11th
• Impromptu 4th place—11th
• Congress Finalist 4th place—11th </p>
<p>Future Business Leaders of America:
• Business Law Individual Test 5th place at area competition—9th
• Could not participate in 10th grade due to schedule conflict with area and debate tournaments.
• Economics Individual Test 4th place at area competition—11th
• Economics Individual Test (State competition 11th grade) —3rd place: was qualified to go to the FBLA National Leadership Conference (NLC), but due to schedule conflicts with the Cornell University Summer College program I gained entrance into, I opted not to attend.—11th</p>
<p>School District:
• Trustee Award of Excellence: The Board of Trustees of our School District honored me for the following: FBLA Third Place State and National Qualifier–Economics </p>
<p>SKILLS, TALENTS, & ACHIEVEMENTS
Languages
French (medium fluency—speaking, reading, writing).
Hindi (all my life)</p>
<p>Music
• I have been learning the Hindustani singing style
since I was 5 years old.
• I have been playing the Hindustani musical
instrument called the harmonium since I was 10
years old.
• I had been learning how to master the violin from
6th grade to 9th grade
I do intend to continue cultivating the art while in college</p>
<p>Dance
• I have been training to master Bharatanatyam since
I was 12 years old, and am about a year away from
doing my arangetram (Bharatanatyam graduation
performance)</p>
<p>buuummmmmp</p>
<p>no one? :(</p>
<p>128 views and no replies? come on people :/</p>
<p>I don’t know how BHP determines who gets accepted or not, but your stats are better than most I’ve seen, so I think you have a pretty decent chance. but BHP is pretty competitive so anything can happen.</p>
<p>Is it really necessary/possible to calculate your GPA to that many places?</p>
<p>i think so. my school uses the computer to do that for us. at some competitive schools the difference between val and sal can be .001 of a point. but that’s as exact of a GPA as it can get haha.</p>
<p>Actually, your stats are better than most for UT, but not for BHP.</p>
<p>Everyone I know (who’s stats I know) in BHP has better stats and a few who were rejected do, too. You never know, though, and you will be kicking yourself if you don’t apply. There’s always a chance you’ll make it. Otherwise, you could just go to McCombs and transfer in sophomore year.</p>
<p>I had better stats and I got turned down. Just saying. Maybe it was my recommendation letter though.</p>
<p>thanks all, I really appreciate everyone’s input! </p>
<p>anything I can doto increase my chances at this rate?</p>
<p>I’m applying this year.</p>
<p>It will be tough, but you should go for it. My son had higher stats, but little work/leadership experience and did not get in and I think that hurt him. Write great essays!!</p>
<p>I should also add that it actually worked out better for him the be in the business school and not the BHP. Whatever happens, it is not the end of the road!</p>
<p>thank you so much :)</p>
<p>Is BHP the same admission process as Mccombs? 75% by rank?</p>
<p>WHY TWO KAY, you will get in next year. My daughter got into BHP on her 2nd year with 4.0. So trying to keep you GPA up. You need 4.0 when you apply next year. So work hard.</p>
<p>BHP is more wholistic than the McCombs school in general. Though their average student will probably be from the top 1-2…% of the class, that is not a necessity. I got in with a 3.07% ranking after my midyear GPA revision. A friend of mine in the top 10 at my school was rejected from BHP, but will probably transfer in for next year.</p>
<p>Essays are very important. They do read all of them, and even remember some of them past the admissions process.</p>
<p>Leadership experience is important. Yours looks good, I hope you make president. I like your consistent involvement in civil service.</p>
<p>As people have said, “better” have been rejected, but that definitely not mean that you are without hope at all.</p>
<p>I would give you an even shot at it. WRITE WELL.</p>
<p>sorry to hijack thread, but does BHP require a separate essay than the UT application itself?</p>
<p>I don’t remember that being the case, but I did gear one of my essays to highlight corporate responsibility.</p>
<p>Of course, I think there is the honors application, but as has been said on various other threads that is not really an essay so much as a series of short answers about what you’re interested in and why that honors program.</p>