McCombs School of Business

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here is my resume: highest SAT is 1190 math and reading. (650/540)</p>

<p>Texas Resident</p>

<p>EDUCATION / ACADEMIC
Rank: 15/382 (Top 4% of Class)
GPA Weighted: 5.3575
GPA: 3.9750
Advanced Classes:
• AP World History: A
• AP Statistics: A
• AP Environmental Science: A
• AP Calculus: Current Class
• AP Economics: Current Class
• English Composition I: Early College Start: A
• English Composition II: Early College Start: A
• English British Literature: Early College Start: Current Class
• Intro to Speech: Early College Start: A
• American History 1301: Early College Start: Current Class
• American History 1302: Early College Start
• Government: Early College Start: Current Class
SAT:
ACT:</p>

<p>HONORS, AWARDS & SPECIAL RECOGNITION
• Outstanding Leadership Award
o Award for being excellent team captain and leader of the freshman football team
• 2011 (Grade 9)
• Outstanding Leadership Award
o Award for being excellent team captain and leader of the Junior Varsity football team
• 2012 (Grade 10)
• Academic Excellence
o Recognized by the state of Texas for outstanding academic excellence and being in the top four percent of the class
• 2013 (Grade 11)
• Team Captain of Track
o • 2011 (Grade 9)
• Team Captain of Track
• 2012 (Grade 10)
• All A Honor Roll
• 2011 (grade 9)
• All A Honor Roll
o• 2012 (grade 10)
• All A Honor Roll</p>

<p>• 2013 (grade 11)
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES / VOLUNTEER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
• Mobile App Development Club
o Founder and president of Mobile App Development Club at High School. Gathered twelve students and created two-dimensional Windows Phone 7 Applications. Together, the club has donated $58 to charity and has received over nine thousand application downloads and over one-hundred-seventy-five thousand advertisement impressions (views)
• 2012 (10)
• 213 hours of community service
• Football Team
o Helped the team as Middle Linebacker as the captain.
• 2011, 2012 (9, 10)
• Track/Field Team
o Served the tack team as a sprinter running the 4x100 relay, 4x200 relay, 4x400 relay, 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, long jump and triple jump.
• 2011, 2012 (9,10)
• National Honor Society
o Member and participant in High School’s National Honor Society program by volunteering and performing community service
• 2013, 2014 (11, 12)
• Relay for Life
o Participant and team captain in High School’s Relay for Life that raised approximately $500 to fight against cancer. Relay for Life is a community event hosted by High School to help raise awareness about cancer.
• 2011, 2012, 2013 (9, 10, 11)
• 51 hours of community service
• Freshman Student Orientation
o Placed in charge of conducting freshman orientation dealing with over 500 incoming freshmen. Duties included: assigning team leaders, coordinating transitions, and gathering speakers to talk to the freshmen.
• Build-A-Ramp
o Helped construct wheelchair ramps for disabled and underprivileged seniors at their houses for easier mobility. Also, helped organize a larger group of individuals to become involved in the Build - A – Ramp program.
• 2011,2012 (9,10)
• 28 hours of community service
• Viper Readers
o Read books to kindergarteners and first graders at local elementary schools in Leander Independent School District.
• 2011, 2012 (9, 10)
• 6 hours of community service
• Brown Santa
o Helped wrap donated Christmas gifts for underprivileged families
• 2013 (11)
• 4 hours of community service
• KEY Club
o Member of High School’s KEY club and leader of the entertainment sector.
• 2012, 2013, 2014 (10,11,12)
• 8 hours community service
• Student Council
o Active member in High School’s Student Council program. Often participated by helping prepare the school for upcoming school years.
• 2012, 2013, 2014 (10, 11, 12)
• 7 hours community service
• Tutoring
o Volunteered to help tutor elementary and middle school kids every Thursday for three months at a local creamery.
• 2013 (11)
• 12 hours community service.
• Technical Theatre
o Volunteered to help set up stage prior to upcoming performances
• 2013 (11)
• 3 hours community service</p>

<p>EMPLOYMENT / SUMMER
• Employee for Randall’s Food and Drug grocery store
o 30 hours per week
o Cashier
• Business Entrepreneurship
o From the age of nine, I have attempted to create over 30 businesses ranging from sports photography to web development
• Created website, TellurideSkiRuns.com, and received over ten thousand page views
o Donated all income to charity
• Farm Assistance
o Help farmers by operating tractors, herding cattle and maintaining farm property.</p>

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<p>Your class rank is in auto-admit range for 2015 (top 7%) so getting into UT should not be a problem. Getting into McCombs is not automatic, though.</p>

<p>I’d focus on improving the SAT scores. They don’t seem consistent with your overall academic profile…I am sure you can do better.</p>

<p>With better SATs I’d even consider you a good candidate for McCombs’ Business Honors Program. You definitely seem to have the entrepreneurial spirit.</p>

<p>A word of advice for when you do your applications: One successful business and one “lessons learned” from a failed business will likely be far more impressive than mentioning 30 attempted businesses. </p>

<p>Since you started at 9, it’s not like anyone expects every venture you tried to have succeeded. But a lot of what you do in B school is think critically about why businesses succeed and fail, so if you can demonstrate that about just one of your failures it will show a real aptitude for the kind of thinking they encourage.</p>