<p>Freshman/Sophomore Rank: 6%. </p>
<p>Junior: No Ranking System, GPA: 3.85 (one B)</p>
<p>ACT: 34</p>
<p>Subject Test: Math (780) Bio (780)</p>
<p>EC: Starting own business (CEO), Internships X2, Research (co authorship and working on project), Engineering Club (executive), Boy Scouts (eagle, many positions), Amnesty (president) Invisible Children (president), future business leaders of america (president) Taek kwon do (black belt), community service..</p>
<p>i think that is all the info.</p>
<p>you’ve got pretty much all of it except the one deciding factor: class rank. </p>
<p>The business school, especially the BHP admissions board, cares about class rank above all else. I’d give you the thumbs up for the business school, but maybe a 50-50 at best with BHP.</p>
<p>the king, I have to agree with juan. class rank is an issue - which seems totally ridiculous with only 1 b, but that’s the way it goes.</p>
<p>you must go to a school like my son who will be a senior next year, he has 1 b from pre ap biology freshman year and we are guessing (based on the number of vals) that he will be 7%! </p>
<p>ridiculous! but, you will be well prepared for college if your highschool is extremely rigorous, so there’s that ;)</p>
<p>thank you! well i switch school after sophomore year so i have a junior/senior gpa (no rank) and then a soph/freshman gpa and rank</p>
<p>Man, I feel for you…I think they usually only accept kids in the top 1-2%</p>
<p>but my qualifications wouldn’t be too much of a stretch though because i have hit if not highly hit every other category, so it would come down to my essays?</p>
<p>ag54, how many vals does the school have? The only district I’ve heard that usually has multiple valedictorians per school is Spring Branch, and their system seems strange to me. One of my pledge brothers was ranked #32 in his class and was salutatorian.</p>
<p>Yes, we are Spring Branch. My son’s year, 2007, there were 26 “vals”, my youngest son’s year (2010), there are projected to be 35, and there are 500 kids in the class, so my son, who will be called a “sal” (for whatever that’s worth) will be ranked 36.</p>
<p>It is a screwy system, and frankly, my opinion is that if there are that many kids who make straight A’s in the hardest classes for 4 years, they aren’t grading hard enough ;)</p>
<p>With your ECs, try to move up to at least top 3% of your class. Also try to up your SAT II math score. Then your chances will significantly increase.</p>
<p>to be honest, i think you’ll have a little trouble getting into mccombs in general (not just BHP), your rank is not the average rank they accept, check out the stats at [Undergraduate</a> Programs - The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/admissions/freshprofile.asp]Undergraduate”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/admissions/freshprofile.asp)
as you can see, the average rank of admits is 2.2%, and your rank is 6%, because of how UT admits its freshmen, you will have trouble getting into Mccombs, but i think your ACT/SAT scores will help you a lot,
UT Mccombs admits its students according to a simple formula, 75% of admits is based on classrank from #1 to #___, and the leftover of 25% of its admits is based on a very competitive cumulative evaluation similar to that of an ivy league college… and forget about the EC’s, they are nowhere as important as classrank, standardized tests, and recommendations for UT.
I’m not trying to discourage you, just give you some info…
good luck next year</p>
<p>and to humble you even further, the people in BHP are composed mainly of valedictorians and salutatorians, and very few people whose rank is below #10,
again, good luck next year, and if you don’t get into BHP, you can always try for a transfer after your freshmen year or/and sophomore year.</p>
<p>well, the rank isn’t as important as your percentile. And it’s so not true that everyone in BHP are vals and sals. How many people are in your class?</p>