Homeschooler here!!! Chances getting into Universities in Texas

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi! I’m just now entering my senior year of high school. I was in an actual private school from 5th-10th grade (no class rank) and decided to homeschool my junior and senior year of high school. I want to know what my chances would be of getting into some universities in Texas (Texas A&M, Baylor, UNT, Texas State, etc.). I am highly interested in both Texas A&M and Baylor University and would say that those are my top two choices. I am also extremely interested in OU and ole miss as my out-of-state choices if anyone has any information on those.

Stats:

  • 4.0 GPA (was 4.07 my sophomore year while in a private school)
  • SAT score of 1080 out of 1600 from the new sat (Crit. Reading + Math)
  • ACT score of 22
  • 100+ volunteer hours
  • 3 different paid job experiences
  • Class Librarian and Historian my sophomore year
  • Extra curricular activities including Choir, Cheerleading, committed Hospice Volunteer, helping at different school events, etc. (I have an entire book of my extra curricular experience for anyone who would like to know more).
  • Currently taking 2 dual credit courses through SAGU (English Comp. and Rehtoric 1 & 2, Speech 1/2 credit and Government 1/2 credit)
  • Taking Calculus for the CLEP test in the Spring and am taking Honors Biology II for the CLEP test

I am currently enrolled in an SAT prep class and am doing all I can to raise that score. I will be taking the ACT again in September along with the SAT in October. I know my SAT/ACT scores are not amazing, but I would just like to know my chances of getting into either Texas A&M or Baylor. Curious as to see what they are like with homeschoolers.

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They’re both probably leaning towards low reaches right now. If you can raise your scores quite a bit you would be in a much better position. Right now you are hovering around both schools 25th percentile, and you’re probably a little lower than that for baylor. What are you going to major in? If it’s something like engineering your chances are probably even less because it’s a more competitive major - for A&M especially. If you’re applying to engineering at A&M you would need to raise your scores pretty significantly. Was your score distribution pretty even for every section?

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@ Danfer91, I’m planning on majoring in something in mathematics, but I’m not quite sure just yet. I’m good at regular schoolwork but am just bad at timed tests:/ My SAT score was actually exactly even at 540 Crit. Reading and 540 Math. My ACT score was 26 in math, 21 in both reading and writing.