How likely are my chances for UTCS?

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Typing this because I heard this year is going to be extremely competitive in terms of UTCS admissions.

SAT I- 1530 one sitting(800M,750 R/W, 19 writing)
SAT IIs: Math II (800)
Unweighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
Weighted GPA: 5.58/6.0
Rank: 17/627(top 3%)
APs taken: AP World History, AP Computer Science I, AP English III, AP Calculus AB, AP Biology, AP Physics I, AP Statistics, AP Spanish, AP Calculus BC, CS III
Senior Courses- AP Chem, AP Physics C, AP Literature, AP Macro, Multivariable Calc, IB CS
EC/Awards- USABO semis 1x, AIME qualifier 1x, varsity swim for 4 yrs, science oly 2 yrs(captain for senior year), symph orch 4 years, robotics team made nats(member since 11th grade), internship this summer at a lab, internship as a software developer for 6 weeks at a startup company, honorable mention for a national engineering research competition on an electroporation microdevice.
Volunteering: Tutor/CS mentoring/~160 hours worth of other stuff
major-related stuff: several individual projects on github, attended a few hackathons(had a leadership moment in one of them), internship for software company right now, python coding group meetings once a month, made a breast cancer algorithm/cancer chatbot, president/founder of school’s coding club. Also hosted a hackathon.

Not trying to be ‘toxic’ CC, but this is just me. I originally thought I had a good chance until someone who had better stats than me said that they got rejected for 2017 admissions.

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I would think that you have a very good chance. The 800 in math is something they look for, but as you noted, nothing is guaranteed at UT. All other Texas public schools are a safety for you, so make sure you apply to a couple as backup. Again, I think you should get in, you have everything - rank, scores, ECs. It would be their loss if they didn’t accept you.

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Thank you for the kind words @GTAustin. Do you think I should give Turing scholars a shot? I heard that their average rank was 6 which is quite competitive. Haven’t started on the application yet as my college goal is to just make it into UT CS.

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I do think you should give Turing Scholars a shot. I don’t know about the average rank. The one student that I know that made it in was not that high in rank but was brilliant in coding. From what I have seen, they do look for that perfect math score and programming ECs.

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to the OP - you have strong profile, you have rank, rigor, test scores and ECs. But your friend with better stats got rejected by UT CS? Did your friend analyze and explain reason for rejection?

Your profile is confusing. In previous thread you talk about being tennis player and orchestra. Here you are varsity swimmer all four years. In previous thread you got rejected by ChemE at UT last year. Maybe I am misreading these threads? Can you explain? If there is good explanation, I will delete this comment. Thanks.