<p>I really want to know and hear peoples opinions, especially if you were denied admission to the University of Texas and you were a home schooler. Heres my situation sort of condensed, I graduated as a home school student one year early and began attending a junior college my senior year. I now have an associate of Science and am taking University courses elsewhere towards a bachelors degree and another associates.</p>
<p>Heres the problem, this year I applied for fall admission to the University of Texas. I had tons of letters of recommendations from a US Col. retired and numerous other international organizations. My dad had been involved with the operation iraqi freedom and it lead me to several opportunities to donate my time and efforts. I had a transfer GPA of 3.1 (it had feel at junior college because I stopped feeling challenged, my mistake but I intend to make it even better) I had phi theta kappa, etc. Now I know that UT is very competitive, but in the State of Texas there is a law mandating that every home schooler that applies as an undergraduate is legally required by the university to be treated equally as a public schooler. ut allows automatic admission, automatic transfers, and scholarships to their school only to public schooled students. There is absolutely no benefits or carry over benefits from high school or public scholarships offered to home schooled students so you automatically have to be holistically reviewed, even though I was in college a year early. And to make matters worse, after all the public school kids are let in they finally get over to review holistic students, and the admissions rate is right over twenty percent. Basically meaning as a home schooler I have to be extremely overly competitive than the traditional student. Right now their entire admissions process is under internal review and is currently undergoing numerous potential problems, but I would like to know if there are students how have seen similar problems or are home schooled and have been denied.
Also, they are the only school in texas without a type of equal policy rule that matches for a home schooled kid to a public school kid. </p>
<p>Thank you so much for your answer. Yes actually I did and I was accepted to every other one, but for extreme financial cost, since Baylor University is very expensive, I’ve had to go down the ladder and completely revaluate everything and go to a smaller school for now </p>
<p>I’m trying to gather all of my facts and am beginning to look into how I can approach UT to fix this extreme issue. There is not even enough home schooled student to be doing this muchless the admission rate for people in an automatic category of holistic review is 15.8%</p>
<p>One issue that may have affected you is that by attending a junior college your senior year, you were considered a transfer student. You were subject to different admission requirements because you were a transfer, not necessarily because you were homeschooled. According to UT’s website, you need at least 30 credits to be considered as a transfer. Also, a 3.1 is not necessarily a competitive GPA for transfer students into higher tier universities. According to UT’s website, a 3.0 is the minimum that the University will consider, and “Many students with GPAs above 3.0, however, are not admitted because of the competitiveness of the process.” </p>
<p>Thanks for the answer. Yeah I understand that part of the transfer and application equation, but what I don’t get is the process. Is in the State of texas there is to be an equal admissions policy regardless of home school or public. Most people are automatic from Texas, and the admission rate for holistic review is only 15.8 percent. </p>
<p>Something I really did wanna continue exploring is how to be competitive without being able to keep up with the public schoolers and their benefits. If I graduated top ten from public school, which I have no doubt I would have (I graduated home school a year early), I would only have to maintain a 2.5 or greater to get in. And remember that is automatic</p>
<p>What benefits me is the obvious distinction between a general admissions way or form for most texans and the purposeful drop into an holistic review that has close to Ivy League numbers that is unrealistic and would not admit over half of those that get in no matter what. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, the decision the Texas legislature has made is to base guaranteed admission on class rank. As a homeschooled student, you must be considered for general admission, but it does not look like there is a way for you to qualify for guaranteed admission. Texas passed this law as a response to affirmative action challenges, and chose class rank as a means of doing so.</p>
<p>very good answer! Lets say that I forgot that though… doesn’t the code “Because the State of Texas considers successful completion of a nontraditional secondary education to be equivalent to graduation from a public high school, an institution of higher education must treat an applicant for admission
to the institution as an undergraduate student who presents evidence that the person has successfully completed a nontraditional secondary education according to the same general standards as other applicants for undergraduate admission who have graduated from a public high school.” Tex. Educ. Code Ann. § 51.9241</p>
<p>put that on the University to provide equal access or an equal path? My problem is that there ‘general admission’ is not general at all. most students are automatic the left overs come from out of country and out of states.</p>
<p>That is going to have to be an argument you are going to have to make to the legislature. As of now, the legislature has said that homeschooled students must be considered as high school graduates for purposes of general admission, but has not made provisions for guaranteed admissions for homeschooled students. It is the legislature’s prerogative to make such a determination, absent a constitutional violation, which does not appear to be the case here. Furthermore, even though in reality general admission is unlikely for UT-Austin, there are other UT schools where general admission is possible, which would affect any constitutional argument you could come up with. .</p>
<p>The University of Texas (at Austin) must by law grant automatic admission to the top 7% of students at Texas public high schools, if that school ranks. There is no auto admit for kids at non-ranking public schools. There is no auto-admit for private schools. There is no auto-admit for out of state kids. There is no auto-admit for homeschoolers. </p>
<p>You were not discriminated against. You applied as a transfer student with a pretty low transfer GPA and you didn’t get in. </p>
<p>You have no idea where you would have ranked at a public high school. Most auto-admit kids take heavy schedules of dual enrollment and AP classes. From your transfer GPA, we know your dual enrollment grades aren’t very good. My oldest is a senior at a Texas public high school. You need As on your dual enrollment and AP classes to be ranked in the top 7%. It is very competitive. </p>
<p>@alekasmars I prefer to respond to you here than to your series of private messages you sent me. </p>
<p>We only have the facts that you provided. We can only respond to the facts as you provided. </p>
<p>I am happy for you that you say the legislature is willing to revise this law specially for you to allow you into UT. You must have some amazing connections to pull that off, but kudos. </p>
<p>I thought that by doing so it would allow us to at least agree to disagree, but not to (potentially racially based) insult my English use or spite my initial comments on this thread…</p>
<p>And for private schoolers out there, yes, you are legally entitled to use automatic admission. The policy is both ways, I confirmed with UT and the Coordinating Board.</p>
<p>TexasMom, I hope you respect peoples opinions more than you make evident. Also, please note, you are not entitled to your own facts as you made evident before. </p>
<p>My GPA is not what you say, nor is your reflections of my position any of your business or anywhere near accurate. </p>
<p>I’m not claiming she did something wrong… I just made comment to what she posted to me personally was inappropriate. I feel that way and we all have opinions</p>
<p>That is not what I was claiming… I don’t think you initially understood my reason for the posting or the current status of the situation. I respectfully disagree and that is ok. We should not argue, but if you have a question for me I will gladly answer it</p>
<p>But to answer your question regarding rank, Yes you are correct regarding the law. You don’t need to look at their website for that, because it mentions in the law specifically regarding rank, class size, etc. </p>
<p>My initial question, is regarding not the law, but the general standard education code. That is what I had asked foremost that I believe you are taking out of context, with all due respect. </p>