<p>Will be applying to their Liberal Arts school to study economics/international relations
Out of state applicant (arizona)</p>
<p>legacy (if it matters)
ACT-29 first sitting will be retaking and will prob get a 30-31
GPA: 3.79 W, 3.65 UW....I missed 28 days of school sophomore year and will be addressing it in essays etc
Class rank-school doesnt rank, prob top 15
Extracuriculars, very stong,
4 years of BBYO, President and vice president (a jewish youth group)
3 years of wrestling 2 on varsity
1 year on traveling soccer team
attended lead america program at stanford
love club member (community service)
save darfur club
around 500 hours of community service between the Ronald McDonald house and the JCC
internship at Sage Tax Group
2nd nature wilderness program
employed at a yogurt place</p>
<p>recs will be great
i will be doing all 4 (or 5?) essays which will be good as writing is my strong point</p>
<p>I'm thinking I have a fairly good shot, what do y'all think</p>
<p>I think your Academic Index and your Personal Achievement Index look very reasonable and that you would have been admitted almost definitely for 2009 and maybe for 2008. We don’t know yet what 2010 will be like, but FWIW, I think you have a good chance of admission. There will still be a lot of top 10% students automatically admitted for fall 2010; this make out of state admissions quite competitive. This .pdf document shows how UT evaluates out of state students (and the Texas kids who were not automatically admitted). They start describing how UT uses a “broad concept of merit” on the bottom of page 2 of the .pdf.
<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report11.pdf</a></p>
<p>(UT doesn’t use legacy status or letters of recommendation for admission. Lead America at Stanford is expensive and wouldn’t have an impact on college admission, unless perhaps you learned something there that you can use on your essays.)</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>they said the recommendations were optional, I can still submit them right?</p>
<p>oh and what does FWIW mean lol</p>
<p>For What its worth…</p>
<p>FWIW, I think you have a great chance.</p>
<p>Thank you both!, definitly excited to hear that</p>