<p>Help! I was wondering what my chances are of getting into UT </p>
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<li>ACT score is 29 and I only took it once with little preparation </li>
<li>SAT score is 1910 </li>
<li>GPA is 3.68 but I'm trying to bring it up</li>
<li>I will be taking 7 APs by the end of senior year </li>
<li>Im not in the top 7% (I go to a private school that doesn't rank)</li>
<li>Played volleyball freshman year</li>
<li>Played lacrosse freshman and sophomore year </li>
<li>I got a job in the middle of my junior year </li>
<li>im a bunch of clubs but i don't really have any leadership roles</li>
<li>i have about 60 hours of volunteer work </li>
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<p>I'm thinking about majoring in Business but I'm still really unsure about what I want to major in </p>
<p>See admission checklist here and freshman profile tab. Your test scores are fine, but your GPA without context doesn’t really matter–it depends on how you stack up against your classmates. Follow the links re: non-ranking HSs and what your counselor will be required to submit. UT will guesstimate a rank for you based on what is submitted, so work with your counselor, who should be able to ballpark the rank they’ll assign.</p>
<p>McCombs is very competitive. Leadership qualities are important, even if you weren’t an elected officer. Use the expanded resume to develop those qualities as relevant to your job, volunteer work and any meaningful role you played in a school club, e.g., something so seemingly innocuous as being in charge of publicizing an event = long description of what you actually did (you will impress yourself!), for example: identified event publicity goals, target audience and forms of media to utilize, including student newspaper, daily announcements, posters and FB; created publicity timeline and budget; developed key text and images for publicity campaign; enlisted and manaaged volunteers to help prepare and distribute publicity; monitored and adjusted publicity campaign, as necessary; made post-event assessment of effectiveness and reported successes, weaknesses and tips to club for use in future publicity campaigns. </p>
<p>If you take the time to prepare your expanded resume with this kind of detail (see the helpful examples and pointers), you will greatly improve your chances of admission to UT first and a major second, whether biz or something else. If you go with biz, follow the McCombs advice about how to list it as your top choice. Figure out another major to put in that second choice line. If you are admitted, but not to either, you’ll be assigned to undergraduate studies, which is not a bad place for undecideds to be! It is very common for students to have no strong ideas when they enter college, and it can sometimes be easier (and less costly) to start with a relatively blank slate and find the right path over your first couple of years vs. start in one, discover it’s not right and have to transfer to try another.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/bba/prospective/admission/freshman-admission”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/bba/prospective/admission/freshman-admission</a></p>
<p>Thank you so much for replying! Your advice was very helpful </p>