<p>Male, public school in FL...
Brazilian, living in U.S. for only 3 years...</p>
<p>GPA:3.96(unw)/4.6(we)
Class Rank: 10/560</p>
<p>ACT:28 (could be higher if I was more familiar with the language)
SAT II:
U.S. History: 690
Spanish: 720</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Varsity Soccer(4 years)(Maybe Captain senior year)
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society(Treasurer)
Key Club
SFABT
First Priority</p>
<p>Awards:
Soccer(District Champions every single year=], 2006 Regional Champions, Adidas High-School Champions)
Presidential Award
MGM Award
Algebra student of the year
World History student of the year
All-Area Midfielder</p>
<p>Community Service:
Soccer Coach (70 hours)</p>
<p>work on that ACT (get to at least 31) and I'd say you're in, but you still have a decent shot if it doesn't go up much or at all.</p>
<p>Your stats are good but OOS admission to UT is not easy. I wouldn't be surprised if you were admitted to the College of Liberal Arts with those stats but for a more selective program/college within UT such as Engineering, Business, Architecture, Turing Scholars, Plan II Honors, or Deans Scholars your SAT/ACT needs to be phenomenal.. somewhere around 32-35 ACT and 2150-2300 SAT to be really competitive. Your class rank is very good and the fact that you are Brazilian will most likely help you considering that large southern public schools like UT are always looking to increase diversity.</p>
<p>I got into the School of Architecture Bach in Arch/Arch Engineering dual degree program ( which also puts me in the engineering school as well ) with a 31 on the ACT, top 15% and a 3.8 GPA.</p>
<p>ok, good to know that being hispanic helps getting in...
the only problem is that I don't think I can do much better in the ACT...
but thanks</p>
<p>Brazilians are generally not considered to be Hispanic by the federal government in the USA...usually one needs to be of Spanish, rather than Portuguese, descent to qualify. However, they generally don't investigate to see if you are being honest in your reply, but just so you know you would under many circumstances not be considered Hispanic. If you are mestizo it may help you to list your race as American Indian, which is basically true, and if you are Afro-Brazilian you probably want to put African American. If you are a White Brazilian, though, you would generally just be considered "white or Caucasian" to our government, though most of the population would classify anyone of Latin American (or more specifically Ibero-American) descent to be Hispanic.</p>
<p>And being Hispanic and OOS does not really make a difference...there are LOTS of Hispanic kids in Texas who are admitted under the top ten law and UT really does not have any need to practice affirmative action for the other admits. If, however, you are low-income or attend a low-income school, that should help.</p>
<p>Honestly with that class rank you should be set even with the 28, which is not bad at all. 30+ will help if you want a competitive major, but Business just bases admission on class rank and it's top 3%.</p>