***Official UT Austin Class of 2021 - Admission Decision Thread***

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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Hey! So it looks like the first round of major acceptances have gone out, but there’s still plenty of time left. I’m a little surprised I got my decision so early because I’m not auto admit (might just be the major I chose though). I thought we could start an admissions decision thread for class of 2021 since one doesn’t exist yet.

College:

Stats

SAT:
SAT IIs:
GPA:
Rank:
Other stats:

Subjective

Essays:
Teacher Recs:
Counselor Rec:
Hook (if any):

State or Country:
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5):
Ethnicity:
Sex at Birth:

Other Factors:

Add more categories if you wish. Good luck to everyone!!

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This is mine.

College: College of Liberal Arts

Stats

SAT: Math 730|Reading 800|Writing 750
SAT IIs: Literature 790|Biology 770|Chemistry 720
GPA: 3.85 (unweighted) and 4.5 (weighted)
Rank: 65/802
Other stats: 4s and 5s on 6 AP Exams

Subjective

Essays: I thought they were good. Writing is my strongest point.
Teacher Recs: Orchestra teacher (excellent, I read it), English teacher (didn’t read but she is very selective about recs)
Counselor Rec: probably pretty generic, I go to a big school
Hook (if any):

State or Country: Houston, Texas
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): 4, pretty darn competitive
Ethnicity: Asian
Sex at Birth: Female

Other Factors: 2 officer positions in National Honor Society, numerous awards in art and orchestra, national awards in debate and Future Business Leaders

I’ve also applied to Plan II Honors and Liberal Arts Honors (fingers crossed!!).

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College: Red McCombs School of Business

Stats

SAT: 2250 (750 CR, 770 Math, 730 Writing, did not submit)
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 4.0 UW, 118.33 W (100 point system)
Rank: 1/607
Other stats: National Merit Semi-finalist, National AP Scholar by end of junior year (all 5’s on 8 AP exams, 6 in progress plus I plan to self-study AP Microeconomics)

Subjective

Essays: Decent, submitted 2 plus the BHP essay
Teacher Recs: Submitted 1, 10/10
Counselor Rec: N/A
Hook (if any): N/A

State or Country: Texas
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): 6A public, 4 in competitiveness
Ethnicity: White
Sex at Birth: Female, cisgender

Other Factors: I’ve competed at the state level in French and music for all of high school, and have held numerous leadership positions in my school’s marching and concert bands. I think my weaknesses lay in not having any business ECs (I go to a relatively new high school so we don’t have any kind of business orgs like FBLA), not taking SAT IIs, and not submitting a counselor rec. on the other hand, I think having more unique ECs (for instance, I helped start a flute choir at my school) made my application stand out, and I got into McCombs! Now I’m just waiting on BHP.

Can’t wait to have y’all as my classmates next year!

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[color=green] Accepted College of Natural Sciences[/green]

[color=black] Objective:[/black]
SAT I (breakdown): 1520 (720CW, 800M, 23 Essay) (Did not send)
ACT (breakdown): 35 (35W, 34M, 36R, 34S, 23 Essay) (RIP essay)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.00
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Tied 1/623
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), English Language (5), APUSH (4), Statistics (5), Physics 1 (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP BC Calculus, AP Government, AP Macro, AP English Literature, AP Biology II, AP Computer Science, AP German, Varsity Tennis
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Gold Medal National German Exam Level 2 & 3, School Awards

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

  • USTA Superchamp (6-12)
  • JV Tennis (9,10)
  • Varsity Tennis (11,12) (1 of the top ranked teams in nation)
  • Research and shadowing at Cancer Hospital (12)
  • Science Olympiad (11, Treasurer 12) (state qualifiers)
  • Canstruction (11, Co-Leader 12) (awards)
  • Mu Alpha Theta (9,10,11, VP 12)
  • Student Leadership Council (11,12)
  • Underclassmen Mentor Program (11)
    Volunteer/Community service:
  • Charity League (7-12) (President 9, 11) (VP 10) (Treasurer 12)
  • Tennis Equipment Donation Drive for Title 1 Schools (Co-Leader/Founder 11,12) ($20k)
  • Tennis Ball Collection (Founder 10,11,12)
    Summer Activities:
  • Internship at local engineering firm (10,11)
  • First began research and shadowing at hospital (12)

Essays (rating 1-10, details): One was commonapp so pretty strong, other was fairly good
Teacher Rec #1: Hopefully pretty good
Counselor Rec: Large school, probably generic

Other

Intended Major: Biology
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Competitive 6A Public (~2500)
Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Living abroad in some unique places?

Reflection

Strengths: Scores, academics, maybe extracurriculars
Weaknesses: Possibly generics recs, maybe essays, nothing truly standout or distinctive
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Applied to Plan II and Dean’s Scholars at UT, & Yale SCEA

General Comments: Excited by what the future may bring!

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**Decision: Accepted CNS **

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1520 (720CW, 800M, 23 Essay) (Did not send)
ACT (breakdown): 35 (35W, 34M, 36R, 34S, 23 Essay) (RIP essay)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.00
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Tied 1/623
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), English Language (5), APUSH (4), Statistics (5), Physics 1 (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP BC Calculus, AP Government, AP Macro, AP English Literature, AP Biology II, AP Computer Science, AP German, Varsity Tennis
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Gold Medal National German Exam Level 2 & 3, School Awards

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

  • USTA Superchamp (6-12)
  • JV Tennis (9,10)
  • Varsity Tennis (11,12) (1 of the top ranked teams in nation)
  • Research and shadowing at Cancer Hospital (12)
  • Science Olympiad (11, Treasurer 12) (state qualifiers)
  • Charity Design & Build Competition (11, Co-Leader 12) (awards)
  • Mu Alpha Theta (9,10,11, VP 12)
  • Student Leadership Council (11,12)
  • Underclassmen Mentor Program (11)
    Volunteer/Community service:
  • Alpha Charity League (7-12) (President 9, 11) (VP 10) (Treasurer 12)
  • Tennis Equipment Donation Drive for Title 1 Schools (Co-Leader/Founder 11,12)
  • Tennis Ball Collection (Founder 10,11,12)
    Summer Activities:
  • Internship at local engineering firm (10,11)
  • First began research and shadowing at hospital (12)

Essays (rating 1-10, details): One was commonapp so pretty strong, other was fairly good
Teacher Rec #1: Probably pretty good
Counselor Rec: Large school, probably generic

Other

Intended Major: Biology
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Competitive 6A Public (~2500)
Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): haha definitely not

Reflection

Strengths: Scores, academics, maybe extracurriculars
Weaknesses: Possibly generics recs, maybe essays, nothing truly standout or distinctive
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Applied to Plan II and Dean’s Scholars at UT, & Yale SCEA

General Comments: Excited by what the future may bring!

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College: Liberal Arts (OOS)

Stats

ACT: 35 (36 E 36 R 34 S 33 M)
SAT IIs:780 us history 730 literature
GPA: 3.8, 5.2
Rank: top 4%
Other stats: 15 ap classes, mostly got 5’s on past 7 exams
national merit commended
national hispanic scholar
ap scholar w distinction

Subjective

Essays:great
Teacher Recs:n/a
Counselor Rec:n/a
Hook (if any): URM, legacy but that doesnt count for UT i think

State or Country: Florida
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Very competitive public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sex at Birth: Female

Other Factors: waiting for plan II

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College: Liberal Arts

Stats

SAT (Post March-2016): 790 English 700 Math
SAT IIs: Planning on taking them December (originally they were for NYU and UofT so that’s why I did it last minute)
GPA: 91.2
Rank: 98/367

Essays: On point.
Teacher Recs: n/a
Counselor Rec: n/a
Hook (if any): none really

State or Country: TX
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Public school, about a 3ish
Ethnicity: Asian
Sex at Birth: Male

ECs:
•Speech and debate.
•Model UN – President and Founding member.
•Choir – All Region choir since 7th grade.
•Used to be a cashier.
•UIL Current Events – Team Captain.
•Science Bowl.

Awards/distinctions:
•NSDA (National Speech and Debate Association) Academic All American.
•NSDA Honor Society member: Outstanding Distinction Merit.
•NSDA National Tournament Qualifier.
•Recognition from the congressionally established Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership for having been elected Presiding Officer at the National tournament.
•Qualified for state level competition in speech/debate about 7 times since sophomore year.
•State finalist in Congressional Debate.
•Placed 2nd at state in a prestigious civics competition sponsored by the State Bar of Texas.

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College: McCombs School Of Business

Stats

ACT: 34 / 36
SAT IIs: None
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 9 / 590 ish
Other stats:

Subjective

Essays: Well Written, solid content
Teacher Recs: None
Counselor Rec: None
Hook (if any):

State or Country: Texas
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): 3
Ethnicity: Asian
Sex at Birth: Male

Other Factors:

Add more categories if you wish. Good luck to everyone!!

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Status for S changed today for admission to McCombs; auto-admit

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McCombs
2250 Superscore 700R, 800 Math 750 Wr
800 SAT Subject Math2
GPA UW 3.96
Academic W. 4.35

OOS Suburban HS.
Essay So So at best
Teacher Rec. Outstanding. Math teacher and head of ASB.

Counselor Rec. Principal wrote it. Rare at my school
No Hook

EC’s
ASB President
3 Year Class Pres. Frosh-Jr
multiple jobs including summer and during year
Music/Rock Band

No academic honors to speak of

Waiting for BHP. fingers crossed.

Didn’t expect to hear so soon as OOS

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If you apply to the regular business school and haven’t heard a decision, but then apply to BHP, will they alert you later or sooner? Will they tell me about the regular business school first or just wait until BHP decides? Thanks!

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Some people get accepted into McCombs first and then they get their BHP decision

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yeah i had a friend like that @honeynut12

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S got his Mccombs decision last week as an OOS student. Then this week he got the call from BHP of acceptance. While I do not know for sure, I think his bhp acceptance, jump started the McCombs acceptance. if not for BHP, he might have not heard until February.

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@BigPapiofthree where are you guys from?

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@G_span, S lives in California

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Any other OOS receive decisions? My daughter applied to CNS by 10/15 deadline. Still hasn’t heard. Also applied to CNS honors. Thanks!

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@HankE DS was just accepted to CNS undeclared. He is OOS.
His CNS Honors application is still in review.

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College: Red McCombs School of Business

Stats

SAT: 1420
ACT: 31
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 3.9 UW, 105.78 (100 point system)
Rank: 2/546 (Salutatorian)

Subjective

Essays: Decent, Business Focused, submitted 2 plus the BHP essay
Teacher Recs: Submitted 1 for McCombs and 1 for BHP
Counselor Rec: N/A
Hook (if any): N/A

State or Country: Texas
Ethnicity: Asian (South Asian)
Sex at Birth: Male

Other Factors:
President of Business Professionals of America School Chapter
(State Qualifier for Banking/Finance and Global Marketing Team)
President of School Investment Club
Executive Fund Manager at School Mutual Fund
Academic Decathlon Honors Team
National Honor Society Member
HOSA Member
Some Volunteering in Developing Country
Work Experience with Small Social Media Company (Marketing) and Social Media Influencer Company (Business Dev)
Marketing/Financial Management for a Gaming App Made by Friend

Excited for UT! Waiting on BHP. Hook em

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OOS; Also I didn’t apply early. I submitted it just before dec 1 deadline.

College: CNS

Stats

SAT: 1450
ACT: 33
GPA: 3.88 UW, 4.38 W
Rank: 3/342

Subjective

Essays: I honestly don’t know; my essays were very abstract and creative so that might have helped.
Teacher Recs: Had my Bio and Gifted teachers write for me.
Counselor Rec: Got one from my college readiness counselor

State or Country: NM
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Public, not too competitive
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Sex at Birth: male

Other Factors:
Speech and Debate
Science Bowl
Tennis
Other smaller clubs
I didn’t have much volunteering