<p>Is it possible? Should I even attempt it if my stats are average?</p>
<p>Background:
State: Michigan
South/East Asian
First gen college student</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.5
SAT: 2150
ACT: 31</p>
<p>APs:
APUSH - 5
AP Micro/Macro - 5
AP Eng Lang - 4
AP Chem - 4</p>
<p>ECs:
Key Club (10, 11)
DECA (11)
Varsity Track & Field (10, 11)</p>
<p>Awards:
Congressional recognition
Nationally ranked Track & Field athlete
State Economics Championship</p>
<p>Intended major: Accounting</p>
<p>What is your weighted gpa?</p>
<p>I don’t see the appeal of going to UT Austin for an accounting degree if you have to pay OOS fees and don’t get scholarship money, which you probably would not get with your gpa and being OOS.</p>
<p>If your weighted gpa is 3.8 or higher, you could get direct admission to the Kelley School of Business and probably get at least $18k per year from Indiana University, which has a great accounting program. The automatic scholarship for four years will likely be at least eleven thousand per year (hasn’t been announced yet for Fall 2013 freshmen) for OOS. Also, with your diversity promoting activities and being from southeast Asia and first generation, you could probably easily get into the Hudson Holland Scholars Program, which could be worth seven to nine thousand per year as a Kelley student. [Main</a> Page: The Hudson and Holland Scholars Program, Indiana University, Bloomington](<a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington)</p>
<p>UT Austin has a higher rated accounting program than Kelley, but it is not a substantial difference, as both are top ten per the Public Accounting Report survey, which is probably as good as any ranking. <a href=“Redirect Notice”>Redirect Notice; Kelley would probably be a far better value if your gpa is weighted over 3.8. Also, there will probably be a lesser automatic scholarship for 3.5 or 3.6 weighed gpa, when they are announced.</p>
<p>If you’re from Michigan and want to do accounting, MSU is also very good, looks like #12 on the list that bthomp1 posted. It wouldn’t make sense to go out of state for accounting because everybody starts at about the same pay, and you could save a lot of money staying in state.</p>
<p>Very hard to get into UT out of state due to Texas 7% rule</p>
<p>bthomp1, could you message me?</p>
<p>What is the Texas 7% rule? I ask because my brother is seriously looking to transfer to a Texas school (UNT or UT at Austin). He’s read in some places that transfer from a Texan CC is desireable, but he is not from Texas, and just got his associate’s degree. He’s been able to find very little on transferring from and oos CC.</p>
<p>UT has to accept 60% of its class from the top 7% of students of Texas public high schools. It usually ends up accepting a lot more.</p>
<p>If you go into accounting the prestige of the school doesn’t really matter. As long as there is Big 4 presence the curriculum will be essentially the same among all AACSB accredited universities.</p>