Chances for UT Honors

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

What are my chances for general admission into the University of Texas at Austin and their Plan II and Liberal Arts Honors Programs?

SAT Math: 740
SAT Critical Reading and Writing: 700
SAT II: Not yet taken
ACT: Not yet taken

Unweighted GPA: 3.84
Weighted GPA: 4.001
Class Rank: Top 3 out of a class of approximately 30

AP Scores:
Human Geography- 5 (FR)
US History- 5 (JR)
English Language and Composition- 5 (JR)
Biology- 3 (JR)
Note: Moved to a new school for sophomore year and wasn’t allowed to take AP that year :frowning:

Senior Year Schedule:
AP Calculus AB
AP US Government and Politics
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Macroeconomics
Physics
Model United Nations
Contemporary Issues (Model United States Senate)
Conditioning

Sports:
Cross Country
Basketball
Soccer

Clubs and Extracurricular Activities:
Piano (11 years)
Saxophone (4 years)
Marching Band (1 year)
FBLA (2 years)
MUN (1 year)
MUSS (Committee Chair) (1 year)
National Honor Society (1 year)
Debate Club (Founder and President)

Special Circumstances:
Freshman Year- Got accepted into a magnet school for the arts
Sophomore Year- Moved overseas to Germany
Junior Year: Attended the THIMUN Conference in The Hague, Netherlands

I intend to major in International Relations and Global Studies.

2

Are you OOS?

3

I am a Texas resident, but my father is in the military so I’m not currently present there.

4

Ok good. Here are the statistics for the students that were offered Plan 2 in 2016:

422 offers
Top 5% of their class - 50%
Valedictorians - 10%
Middle 50% math and critical reading (old SAT) - 1410 - 1530
Middle 50% Math - 700 - 770
Middle 50% Critical Reading - 700-780
Average Math - 728
Average Critical Reading - 736

So based on this info, you might get an offer, but it’s probably about 50/50 and is going to be largely dependent on the incoming class that you apply with, I think. Your CR score might be a little low though, given that this is a Liberal Arts program.

5

I know my critical reading score is low, but I plan on making that up with my AP English scores.

6

It’s not that your CR score is low, just a little bit low for this program. But I don’t think AP scores really work that way for admissions purposes. You can use AP credit to test out of things at UT, but I don’t think they use AP scores to counterbalance a lower than average SAT score when considering honors programs.

7

@jdam9828 - Don’t think AP scores are considered during the admission process.
Make sure you have excellent essays that prove to the AdCom that you would be an asset & fit for UT.
Good Luck!