<p>I was always wondering about <a href="mailto:UTexas@Austin..but">UTexas@Austin..but</a> when I was applying to colleges I never really looked into it. Hearing about how wonderful it was, I found out it was way too late to apply back in mid January.</p>
<p>Anyways, can you tell me if I DID apply there, what my chances would be?</p>
<p>3.51 GPA, 1710 superscore SAT, 24 ACT, 2 AP classes this year
Solid essay, good EC's (2 years of water polo, 1 year of swimming and football, 3 years 8 weeks per year of camp which I help out at)</p>
<p>I'm guessing it would be a high match or low reach, am I right?
Thanks</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be impossible for you to get in, I’ve seen much worse people get in, although they were in state.</p>
<p>Why do you want to know if you can’t apply?</p>
<p>Just totally curious :x</p>
<p>If you are in state you’d have a chance I think.</p>
<p>I was OOS, had a better GPA, SAT, ACT and more EC’s… I still got rejected. I was also URM (Pacific Islander).</p>
<p>I’m thinking this is because of their 10% in state rule which basically says that anyone in the state of Texas that is in the top 10% of their high school class is automatically admitted to all of Texas’s public universities. And Texas is a BIG state, so I can only imagine they are filled to the brim with students who may or may not be as qualified as you or me.</p>
<p>(I mean seriously, someone who gets a 4.0 GPA / Rank 1 at a school that sends only 20 to 30 students to institutions of higher learning should not beat out someone with a 3.7 GPA / Top 25% at a school that regularly sends many of its students to Yale, Brown, Harvard, MIT, etc.)</p>
<p>^Pacific Islander isn’t a URM. They’re usually clumped together with Asians, ORMs.</p>
<p>Not at all schools, it is kind of half and half from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>Although, at UT they may have done it that way, which would explain why I got rejected to some degree.</p>
<p>I’ve verified this, at Georgia Tech, Pacific Islanders are grouped together with Native Hawaiians which is a URM (or at least I think so.)</p>
<p>Another source (<a href=“http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/Research_briefs/brief_Same_courses_ASEE08.html[/url]”>http://www.engr.washington.edu/caee/Research_briefs/brief_Same_courses_ASEE08.html</a>)
Quoted: “… underrepresented minority (URM) (African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Mexican American/Chicano, Puerto Rican, Other Latino).”</p>
<p>Okay, fair enough. I’ve always seen it clumped together with Asians on breakdowns of college ethnicities, but it obviously varies.</p>