<p>I'm taking again next week hoping to raise it a point or two.</p>
<p>Course rigor has increased each year along with my GPA. Upward trend.
Several pre-AP and AP classes.</p>
<p>National Honor Society 10,11,12
Football,Baseball,Lacrosse</p>
<p>Plenty of Community Service hours and leader of 2 community groups and fundraisers.
Worked at local business junior year and probably will my senior year.</p>
<p>What are my chances of getting accepted in to Texas, which is my first choice, or A&M?</p>
<p>(If anyone has other suggestions about Petroleum or chemical engineering please let me know!)</p>
<p>Unless something changes next year you won’t get into petroleum or chemical unless you’re a woman or a minority. With that ranking you may not even get into the University at all.</p>
<p>TAMU comes on a first come first server basis. They just give the engineering seats to whoever comes first. CHEM ENG fills up REALLY FAST, so APPLY AS FREAKING EARLY AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN.</p>
<p>asianandproud - Thanks for your feedback. I agree that being a a female or minority is a big a benefit for admissions. But obviously that is something I can’t control!</p>
<p>Attending a large highly competitive high school has both benefits and drawbacks. </p>
<p>Making the top 10% (which only 7% are auto-admit next year at UT) is difficult. The differences in GPA from top 10% to 15% is a small fraction of a point. But since my school doesn’t rank I can only estimate where I fall in the rankings. Counselors won’t/can’t tell me anything.</p>
<p>True I’m not the top 7% auto-admit but with the auto-admit percentage getting smaller then the bottom 3% of the 10% now have to compete with the high performing non auto-admits from other schools. You would think that would give people like me a better chance since my stats will be better than many of that 3% group who are no longer auto-admit. </p>
<p>But stats aren’t everything to UT who has the holistic view of applicants.</p>
<p>All I can do is my best and hope for the best.</p>
<p>while we’re here id like to ask some of your opinions,</p>
<p>i got accepted to Tech
and tamuk for petroleum/natural gas enginering (with a major scholarship)</p>
<p>i applied to UT as a cola because i didnt think id get in the engineerig as an external</p>
<p>should I go for one of the previous or go to UT if I get accepted</p>
<p>Also, if I go to UT I’d have to take an extra year since I can’t tranfer until I complete 24 hours. If I go Tamuk I can start my major courses in the Fall and grad by 2015/2016.</p>
<p>Im kinda stumped about what to do</p>
<p>plus like petroleum engineering isn’t the easiest major to get into</p>