<p>Please chance me of admissions to McCombs or even UT in general. I'm currently a Junior (I know this is really early), but I want to know your thoughts ahead of time. </p>
<p>Stats:
Ranking: Private School Doesn't Rank (my school only releases Top 10%, Top 25%, Top 50%, etc.)---I am in top 25% quartile.
SAT: 1980 SAT (only taken it once so far)
ACT: 31 ACT (taken it once)
APs: AP Enviro, AP Gov, AP Macro/Micro, AP English IV
Honors: Geo H, Alg IIH, PreCal H, Physics IH, English IIH/IIIH, Spanish IIH
GPA: 4.1</p>
<p>Subjective:
ECs: School Club (Founder, President), Leadership Class, Service Leader/Officer (200+ hours), NHS, NHS VP, JV Football, JV Baseball, V Golf, Volunteer at local library
Job/Work Experience: Internship @ Local law firm over summer, Work at local golf course
Essays: Great
Teacher Recs: Great
Counselor Rec: Great
Other Awards: Yes (school awards)
Hook: Small, but yes</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State: Texas
School Type, Avg Stats of school: Private school in Houston area, we send lots of students to UT (lots of people in top 25% are admitted). Also very competitive academically with a good reputation.
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Comments: I want to study business so obviously I would have to put McCombs as my first prospective major. But I am also interested in law school, so I would probably put that as my number 2. Please tell me your thoughts! Thanks so much.</p>
<p>you might could get in, but i mean UT Capd people with higher SAT scores than you have, try getting your math score up the higher that is the more likely you could get in.</p>
<p>or if you want to play it safe, see if your parents will allow you to transfer schools now, im pretty sure with a 4.1 you will be in the top 10% at a public, and if your top 10 you have a much better chance of getting in Mccombs </p>
<p>and as far as Law school you will need your bachelors before you can even go. you dont have to actually do pre-law either, with law school you can get in with a good GPA, and a good LSAT score, and some decent extra curricular activities , and UTs law school gets like 5000 applications and accepts around 300 so do the math</p>
<p>what about just getting into UT as a whole? do you think that I will have a problem?</p>
<p>to tell you the truth i have no idea, your stats are good, but after people with 2100s and up got capd im not sure about anything lol</p>
<p>your best bet is to just go to public school for your final year, you might can get in but i really dont know how their admissions work, and like 70% of incoming freshman are top 10% so i guess you have a 30% chance of getting in</p>
<p>if UT is the school you really want to go to, then going to a public school if your best option</p>
<p>Up that SAT a bit (UT only looks at M/R) to 1400+ if it isn’t already, and you should be OK. </p>
<p>I was admitted to UT McCombs from a non-ranking elite private school. Similar stats to you, though my actual class ranking was a bit higher (top 10%), but that didn’t play any part in my admissions, because the school didn’t send ranks. My M/V SAT was 1480. </p>
<p>Which school do you go to? </p>
<p>As I posted before, UT has an unofficial quota for elite non-ranking private school students. You should be fine for general admission. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>@navyarf yes it did, UT will calculate what your rank would be, thats what they do for non ranking schools</p>
<p>^Patently false. How would they do this? Pry records from the school? If your school doesn’t rank, you won’t be part of the ranked pool.</p>
<p>they ask counselors to give them an estimate or something, but its been said in many threads if your school doesnt rank UT calculates it or something</p>
<p>but im telling they do</p>
<p>@pierrechn, if the school doesn’t rank, they can’t take that into account.</p>
<p>@navyarf i go to episcopal high school <a href=“http://www.ehshouston.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.ehshouston.org</a></p>
<p>^YEAH! </p>
<p>Fellow SPCer. I remember playing Bball against EHS back in the day, when you had DeAndre Jordan, the guy who now plays on the Clippers. Fond memories. Good school.</p>
<p>I’ve suggested in previous posts that perhaps UT sets aside quotas for elite non-ranking private school students. Don’t know how true it is, but it sounds like a reasonable possibility to me. </p>
<p>You should be OK for general admission, maybe for McCombs. Take the SAT one more time (in March) and see if you can’t get 1400+ on the M/V.</p>
<p>haha good stuff, i wasn’t here to see DeAndre but I hear that he was somethin’ else as far as basketball goes.</p>
<p>just curious, where did you go to high school?</p>
<p>and yeah i agree, I think I can get into Texas general admission… I know lots of senior friends who were not even in the top 25% who got accepted</p>
<p>read these other threads, UT will ask your private school to estimate your rank, every school ranks private school probably only does it for records or something. ask yourself does your school have a valedictorian? then they rank</p>
<p>navyarf if you were top 10, that’s how you got in, even if you weren’t ranked at your school plain and simple, you were auto-admitted. They calculated a rank for you even though the school doesn’t</p>
<p>@redhotsrock thats what im been telling them lol</p>
<p>^
My school does not rank. We did not have a valedictorian. The counselors refuse to “estimate students rank” for colleges, including UT, which coincidentally, is ten minutes down the road. The administration make it very clear to both students and parents that they refuse to rank or even estimate ranks for students. I doubt UT would have a problem with it, some very powerful UT alumni and admin send their kids to my high school. I wasn’t auto admitted, I’m pretty sure of that, because I waited till the final decision date before I finally heard back from UT. </p>
<p>I was only estimating my rank based on hovering over naviance and (being the Asian I am) asking for other people’s GPA. Haha.</p>
<p>Here is the official statement from the UT admissions website. </p>
<p>“Applicants from high schools that don’t officially rank their students can be considered for admission. To help us make decisions about students from non-ranking schools, we ask counselors to send us information about their school’s grading system, the size of their graduating class, coursework required for graduation and other information. Admission decisions are made based on this information along with the same factors used to make decisions for other students who are not eligible for automatic admission.” </p>
<p>I don’t understand why you folks are insisting that UT admissions will do everything possible to try to rank a student when they can’t possibly have access to all the information necessary to make such a judgement. </p>
<p>If your school doesn’t rank, you won’t be in the ranked pool. Simple as that. Does this make admission a little harder? Perhaps. Even if you would be the val at an unranked school, you don’t go into the first pool. You compete with everyone else who didn’t qualify for automatic admissions. </p>
<p>With that being said, most schools rank (are public schools legally bound by law to do so?). </p>
<p>I imagine the OP to be in a similar situation as I was in a few years ago.</p>
<p>ha okay, if that was the case every school wouldnt rank and we could all go to UT lol just kidding</p>
<p>but whatever you say</p>
<p>just because they tell you they dont send this info doesnt mean they dont, and lol if i lived in Austin i dont think i would even want to go to UT, thats just to close to home</p>
<p>Many high schools, especially academically strong schools, are no longer ranking students. Our large public high school (Ohio) does not rank, largely because the pool of strong students is so large that it would be an artificial disadvantage. For instance, the GPA difference between the top 10% and the top 15% could easily be a difference of a couple hundredths of a percentage point. This is also born out in other numbers: 42 students (12% of the senior class) were NMF/NMSF/NMC this year. This policy does not seem to hurt the students’ admission chances at all, but rather, requires the AdComs to focus on the other, perhaps more relevant numbers. After all, class rank is a function of the pool of students against which one competes and not all pools are created equal (as the Top 10% rule bears out).</p>
<p>when your going to UT, rank matters a whole lot. at other schools probably not as much but for UT rank MATTERS ALOT lol</p>
<p>If a school does not rank, it does not rank. You can’t estimate something like this. It ISN’T POSSIBLE. If it were possible, then there would be no reason for a school not to rank. That being said. OP: Raise that SAT/ACT score up, because without rank the admissions people will have to put heavier weight on test scores and GPA.</p>