<p>What are my chances of getting into UT? </p>
<p>Texas Resident
3.6 GPA
Top 21%
All honors or AP classes except one regulars (Chemistry)
Varsity tennis for two years
300+ community service hours
Good letters of recommendation
1700 SAT, 26 ACT</p>
<p>very low due to your standardized test scores</p>
<p>Nah, you have a good chance. Your community service hours are top notch and will mostly make up for your SAT score.</p>
<p>I disagree, those comm service hours seem standard to me.</p>
<p>Out of that SAT score....what is your Math + CR....that might make a little difference</p>
<p>SAT doesn't work for me. I only got a 600 on the math and 510 on CR. I'm shooting for a high ACT score. I took a practice test a few days ago and got a 30, which isn't GREAT, but definitely better my SAT score will ever be.</p>
<p>I doubt you will get in with that SAT/rank combo....but you never know....you could always transfer into UT if you dont get accepted</p>
<p>i mean, a 30 on the ACT will not offset other stats, you need a score that will be better than the average i think...</p>
<p>I think you're in.</p>
<p>Apply and write a very good essay.</p>
<p>I got in as a summer freshmen with these stats:</p>
<p>top 22% of class
1350/1600 SAT score
2000 community service hours
various leadership postions.</p>
<p>A friend of mine from my school had very similar stats and got in as a summer freshmen also. REALLY try to do well on the ACT and your essay. good luck</p>
<p>hey dcfca, how does the summer freshmen thing work..... im guessing you applied for fall but had to come in for the summer....when does the summer thing start and is there a gpa you need to get to stay in? i really dont understand the whole summer freshmen thing</p>
<p>I had to start 2 weeks after my high school graduation (like early June or so was the first day of class. I forget exactly) No GPA to maintain, you just start earlier to make room in the intro classes for the other freshmen.</p>
<p>meant to start new post....sorry</p>
<p>I think that his scores aren't that bad since the middle 50% of the SAT scores at UT was around 540-660 for verbal and 570-680 for math.</p>
<p>But remember that a lot of those scores come from people who got in as top 10%. They could have scored a 700 on the SAT and still gotten in.</p>
<p>hi i am currently in thailand... this is another one of the chances questions....</p>
<p>texas A&M or austin... which one has better engineering/science program</p>
<p>my stats:</p>
<p>sat 1: math 780 verbal 460 !!! writing 580 essay 10/12
sat 2: math 800 physics 760 chem 710
toefl: 267 computer-based</p>
<p>no gpa/class rank as i follow the british curriculum</p>
<p>doing full IB diploma
Math HL 7
Physics HL 7
Chem HL 6
English A1 SL 5
Thai B SL 7
Economics SL 4!!!!!!!!!
(NB: i reckon i will get 2 bonus points)</p>
<p>ECAs:
swimming since like 4ever, seasac, bisac, blah blah blah
play soccer a bit not serious ( not in school team... too busy with swimming)
invited to British Math Olympiad round 1 (top 800 in world)
gold, silver, and bronze certificates in british math challenge in junior, intermediate, and senior competitions on 3 consecutive years
math competition @ ISB (a school in thailand u prolly dunno) about a year ago
World cyber games (WCG 2005) 7th place in thailand at Warcraft</p>
<p>my description of myself:
i am very math/science orientated.... as you can see from my low verbal and economic scores.</p>
<p>here are the lists of the colleges im applying to.... wut are my chances???</p>
<p>1st choices: Caltech, MIT, Harvey Mudd
2nd choices: U of Michigan- Ann Arbor, U Texas- Austin
Safe choices: Illinois tech, Clarkson U</p>
<p>There is no way you will get into Caltech, MIT, Harvey Mudd, UT, or UMich with under a 500 verbal score, sorry...and being international certainly doesn't help.</p>
<p>I seriously do not understand why most of you people are so damn negative! I'm so tired of looking at this almost everyday and people constantly putting each other down or discouraging them. Everyone has a chance to get in... they might not have the greatest SAT scores but have incredible essays or an outstanding WGPA...some people just simply don't test well. And when I mean everyone has a chance they do. There was a girl that went to my school last year, oh yeah and btw i live in maryland so she was out of state and she didn't get into u of miami...I mean miami... like seriously its a great school but its not that hard to get into but even she got into UT Austin, an AMAZING school and she is having the time of her life. SAT scores are not everything, colleges look at each student overall and what they could individually bring to the school. There are so many factors that are involved in the admissions process, standardized test scores is just one of them. Seriously a lot of people on this board need to just get over themselves! Look at yourselves! you are not the ones that are on the admissons board reading the applications and making the decisions! I understand that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I really just had to let this out...</p>
<p>Sorry but scores are the most important factor at Caltech. A 480 is unacceptable.</p>
<p>kahunababe... are you blind to the fact that this is a chances thread? the OP is ASKING for peoples opinions...</p>