Chance me please! Feedback greatly appreciated

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>Hi! I'm about to become a senior in high school and college application time is slowly but surely approaching so I was wondering if you guys can help me get a sense of my current predicament concerning acceptance of University of Texas Austin.</p>

<p>Some background information: I'm an Asian Male born in China, spent 8 years in China, 3 in Canada, and 6 years in the United States so I can speak English, Chinese, and French. </p>

<p>My Stats and I regretfully has slacked off tremendously so my GPA is horrible and my school is in California so I will be applying as an OOS student but apparently according to my research the 10% rule is coming to a close and UT is looking to attract more students from LA and NY and I am from LA so hopefully that will help.</p>

<p>GPA: Unweighted: 3.16
Weighted: 3.67
SAT I: 2200
SATIIs: Math II C: 750
Biology 700
Chemistry: 630 (blah horrible i know)
Literature: 620 (same here)
APs: 5 in AP English Language
4 in AP Calculus
3 in AP Biology
2 in AP Chemistry (Once again i know! its horrible :()
ECs: Tennis Team (9, 11, 12) Captain senior Year
Badminton Team, Math Team, National Honors Society, School Newspaper Staff, Prom Committee(Dance Committee), Freshmen Orientation Staff, French Club, French Honors Society, Hospital Staff/Volunteer (City of Hope Oncology Department), Coaches kids tennis.</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
1) AP English Language
2) AP Statistics
3) AP French
4) AP Government
5) Tennis
6) Journalism Newspaper Staff</p>

<p>PLEASE CHANCE ME AND BE BRUTALLY HONEST!!! </p>

<p>*******PS!! can anyone clarify to me whether UT Austin offers Early decision or action!</p>

<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!</p>

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<p>There is no early decision.</p>

<p>Also, what’s your class rank. That is key.</p>

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<p>my school has approximately 5000 people so theres no class rank</p>

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<p>That’s already a big disadvantage to you. Will the school report it if you ask? I graduated in a class size of 1361 and they reported my rank.</p>

<p>Can you guess your rank? Are you top 5%? 10%? 25%?</p>

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<p>Also, the top 10% legislation begins with the incoming class of 2011. So OOSers will still have it rough in the next admission process.</p>

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<p>i would say i am definitely top 25% and i go to a REALLY prestigious school in LA and i guess top 15 is more like it.</p>

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<p>SOO that means the 10% rule will still apply to me? and can you guys elaborate to me what exactly is the 10% rule i m still a bit unclear on that
thanks!</p>

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<p>10% rule states that Public Universities in Texas must admit any student who graduates form a Texas high school in the top 10% of their class. With the number of people who apply to UT, the number who fall into this 10% category constitute almost all of the admitted in-state population. This does not guarantee admission into the specific school/college, like McCombs/Natural Sciences/Engineering/etc, only the university itself as a whole must accept the student.</p>

<p>The new rule would state that the university would only have to apply the 10% rule to 75% of their admitted population. The rest would be merit-based on their own ranking process. This would make it harder for OOS people to get admitted, since now people who are below 7% in-state probably will fall after the first 75% admitted, so they won’t get admitted under that and instead they would be admitted in the remaining 25%. Texas likes in-state students, since it is a state university.</p>

<p>Also see:
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_Bill_588[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_House_Bill_588&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>ohh ok! thank you so much soo what would you say my chances are with all things considered. haha</p>

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<p>Generally, if you are in a school that reports rank you want to be in the top 7% or so (5% IMO) to get accepted out of state.</p>

<p>Since they don’t report your rank… I don’t know how UT handles that. They usually don’t like it if they don’t report it. They might base it off of GPA or something, but I do know that rank is like 80% of the acceptance formula. It’s big. </p>

<p>So I guess I can’t really say… SAT is better than others I’ve seen(2290 here), I don’t think they look at AP scores at all…</p>

<p>What school are you looking into going into? e.g. business, natural sciences, engineering, etc.</p>

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<p>if i get in, i would like to major in petroleum engineering with a minor in french</p>