I am about to be a senior in high school and have been a Longhorn my whole life. More than anything, I want to be accepted into McCombs. I am in the top 5% of my class, I’m pretty involved, but my standardized test scores are just kind of above average, nothing really special about them. I was wondering if anyone had some tips for applying to McCombs. What can I do to set myself apart from other applicants? Thanks!
Write a really good Essay C. You can submit new standardized test scores all the way through December.They use the single sitting that benefits you most in the formula so submit all of your scores not just the best one in total.
@gettingschooled just letting you know they changed the essay prompts for this year. A is now the required one, C is about a ticket. I’m just assuming that you are saying that bc C was the required one in the past
You are right. I did not realize they changed. Thanks!
Whichever essay you write, craft it so that admissions sees that you are a good fit for McCombs specifically.
@pschnee A is required for Mccombs? Where do they say this?
@pschnee Never mind I found it. I do have a question though. Is there a certain way we have to write the essays? Like expository, poem, etc etc.
See page 34 (figure 2) for how they score the essay. There is a whole subforum on essays if you want advice on that. I’d say most people go with expository though.
@TheAvidSeeker I wouldn’t think of “what they want”. Just let your mind and thoughts control what you write, and then after you have gotten your mindset for both prompts onto paper (or the screen technically), have someone knowledgeable edit it and give you feedback and go from there. UT is my top choice and has been for a while, so I was very eager to write these. I wrote both pretty quickly over last month but both were extremely long (even though ApplyTexas allows for 120 80-character lines of writing, which is a ton of writing). I worked with a former admissions counselor for WashU and she is helping me craft them into the best versions that they can be while also cutting them down so they are more brief and concise, I’m also having a current UT mechanical eng. student take a look at them, along with my parents of course. Good luck!