Hi, i am an in-state senior looking for some outside feedback on my chances of getting into UT Austin. I am planning to apply at the end of October and am looking at the Turing Scholars honors program.
Major: CS & Business
Ethnicity: French and North African (Caucasian on official forms)
Rank: 4%, 26/670
GPA: 4.64/5.00 weighted
ACT: 33
SAT: 1430 (new scores coming in tomorrow)
SAT Subjects: Math II (planning to take in october)
Course load: Graduating with 12 AP Credits
Only 1 5 in AP World History
4’s in Calculus AB & BC, APUSH, AP French (self study)
3’s in AP Comp Sci A, AP Lang, and AP Human Geography
Current course load:
Calc 3, AP Physics, AP Music Theory, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Econ, AP Comp Sci Principles
EC:
Debate Team: member 10-12
UNICEF Club: member 11-12 (10+ hours volunteering)
NHS: 11-12 (40+ hours volunteering)
Videogames Club: Founder 11-12
Eco Club: member 11-12 (10+ hours volunteering
Work: web developer for my local french school organization
Awards: 3rd place at city champs debate competition
Won multiple HUDL debate tournaments
Distinguished AP Scholar
Looking for good feedback, criticism is appreciated. Thanks!
@nctx2443 Yes with a 1.1 multiplier for advanced AP classes - only retaining a 100 will keep you at 5.0, a 99 will get you a 4.9, 98 will be 4.8 and so on. PE requirement will be a 4.0 class, same with fine arts - they ALWAYS bring your GPA down. This is how our local Austin high schools work. Each district has their own way of doing things and different weighted multipliers for different classes and UT knows how all these districts work. So when you see people saying they were not admitted - it isn’t so simple to just look at a high GPA without looking at the Transcript and knowing the schools weighted multipliers. In Austin High Schools you can get pretty close to a 5.0 just by taking Pre-AP classes and doing well which are weighted the same as AP classes. However, that doesn’t mean UT will admit you to your choice of major like Engineering, CS or business.
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“The demand is unbounded,” said Don Fussell, chairman of the university’s computer science department. The university is looking to hire several tenure-track faculty members in computing this year, he said, but competition for top candidates is fierce. “I know of major departments that interviewed 40 candidates, and I don’t think they hired anybody.
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Aafia Ahmad, a sophomore computer science major at U.T. Austin, had hoped to take an elective course in computer security this semester. But when she tried to sign up during early registration in November, the course was already full. She said that was the case for nearly every computer science elective she wanted. She is now 79th on a waiting list for the security course. …”
@damon30 This is pretty typical of many majors at UT for registration. The waitlists can be enormous even for core classes so having alternate plans is always a necessity. Knowing how registration works is critical. The real problem is the more degree plans they offer with CS as a major or minor causes the problems. The one thing UT has seriously pushed in the past few years is making sure 4 year students graduate on time so normally the department gets involved (if the student seeks out their advisor).
@nctx2443 This is how most schools work as far as a GPA that is weighted because a school always has classes that are unweighted that are required for students to take. At our school (OOS), PE doesn’t go into the GPA at all, however, everyone is required to take Fine Arts and Health to graduate and there are no Honors options for Freshman or Sophomore English, so right off the bat, the GPA cannot be out of a 5.0. I think the highest GPA in our graduating class is just over a 4.7. No one should really say the GPA is out of a 5.0 if a 5.0 isn’t possible.
in AP World History