<p>I go to a competitive high school in the Northeast (out of state, obvs), and I am in the top 25%. My GPA for each year is as follows (unweighted/weighted):
Frosh: 3.2/3.2
Soph: 3.8/4.0
Junior: 3.6/4.1</p>
<p>My frosh GPA was that low because I was going through an emotional conflict, so I had to miss a few weeks of school. I completely solved this conflict and turned my life around (and my grades reflect this). I would talk about this on the Special Circumstances section of the app. I also won an award for this (along with 7 other awards in my time in high school). My SAT scores are as follows:
CR: 620
Math: 610
Writing: 650</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
Ultimate Frisbee Club (Capt. senior year)
Winter Track (lettered senior year)
Spring Track (lettered senior year)
Student Awareness Program (substance abuse prevention group)
Business and Investing Club</p>
<p>Comm Service:
Helped with Child-Related charities
Helped at my local Catholic church</p>
<p>Senior Class Schedule:
AP Chemistry
Honors British Literature
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Social Science
College Prep Calculus
College Prep Physics (2nd science)</p>
<p>OOS is tough. If you were in-state your stats would be fine, but they generally want their OOS admits to have 1300+ SAT (I got in OOS w/1430). It's difficult to say what they'll decide, but my knee-jerk reaction is that you won't get accepted.</p>
<p>MDubbs, your grades are good and it looks like you've chosen rigorous classes, but I think those SAT's are going to hurt you. I read in one thread here that the average SAT for oos is 1250. I don't have any reference for that, though.</p>
<p>There is no way the average oos is 1250. According to college board the middle 50% is from 1110-1370.., which probably doesn't include very many OOS. OOS is way higher than 1250. </p>
<p>Sorry but 1 AP class isn't a rigorous class schedule by any means. Honors class are good and all, but beyond your weighted GPA they really hold no bearing unless you go to the next level up.</p>
<p>so harsh...you definitely have chances...foxshox doesn't know what he's talking about...as long as you're taking the highest course level offered and well, as best as you can do, you have a chance. There is always hope. And UT is not THAT competative...it's a good school but look at the size...I'm sorry Foxshox but I really think he has a good chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Hey I am simply going on what I have seen with my friends, the only person I have seen that got in with a sat score like that had a much higher rank..</p>
<p>My friend was at about the same percentile(20-25%), and got flat out rejected with a 1410 SAT M+R. He also had more AP credit. </p>
<p>I am just being frank here, no need to give anybody false hopes.</p>
<p>I'm not going to say flat out that you won't. From what I've heard, with OOS applicants it's WAY more competitive. However, if your essays are well written, I'm sure you stand a chance. Don't give up hope because from the stats of their entering class of 2011, 5% of them were not in the top 25% of their graduating class. I think you have a bit of a chance. Maybe not a FIGHTING chance, but the possibility is still there.</p>
<p>Well I'm OOS and even an international student from Mexico and I got it.
Here we don't even have a GPA, grades are rated in a different way and my SAT scores were just around 1800's.</p>
<p>Now I'm in, so basically you do stand for a chance at UT, just trust in yourself.</p>
<p>This year it was quite a stretch for those not in the top 10% for in-state students, out of state is definitely harder. UT tries to give in-state students with terrific stats alternatives and lets them do the Summer Freshman program or will CAP them. In-state students with good stats who would have earlier been admitted were rejected this year since there were so many applicants and so many of them were top 10%.</p>
<p>They simply didn't have enough room. So until the top 10% rule is repealed or changed, there's a small chance of getting in as an in-state student; even then you'll eventually end up at UT because they're a tad preferential to in-state residents. As an out of state student, cross your fingers, because your SAT scores are a bit low.</p>
<p>This all depends on the major you're applying to. Engineering/Business significantly lowers them.</p>
<p>I say this as a Texas resident living in the middle of this chaos that is Austin. I talked to an admissions director over the summer and he said the top ten percent rule was hurting them more than it helped and needed to be changed. It's a crapshoot otherwise.</p>
<p>This year I was accepted into Enginnering at Johns Hopkins and Cornell, but I got Summer Freshman'd at UT; I applied for Engineering. All because I'm a couple of spots shy of the top 10. I could go on a rant and say that getting into the top 10 is fairly simple as long as you don't take challenging classes; one of my friends is taking 4 periods of journalism (100 average...in all 4), 1 AP, and regular english this year, over the past four years he's taken about 2 AP classes, and he's in the top ten.</p>
<p>I am taking 4 APs and Yearbook+editor period, I've taken 8 APs, and I'm in the top 11%.</p>
<p>Anywho, good luck, maybe things won't be as bad next year... they'll probably honestly just be worst.</p>
<p>I'm not bitter. Really. It's just ridiculous.</p>