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

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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[B][size=4][color=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size][/b]

College of Natural Sciences

[B]Objective:*
SAT I (breakdown): didn’t take
ACT (breakdown): 29 C (34 E, 27 M, 30 R, 24 S), super score at 30
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
Weighted GPA:3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):157/696
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry: (3), AP Lang (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Studio Art 2D, Trig/Precalc Honors, IB Business Management SL, AP Physics 1, AP Literature and Composition, AP World History
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none lol

[B]Subjective:*
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS, National Charity League, DECA, Girls swim team (swimmer except for manager senior year)
Job/Work Experience: n/a
Volunteer/Community service: NCL and NHS
Summer Activities: none
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10/10 for A and B. Made my DECA advisor and my mom cry

Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details):AP Chem teacher: 7/10 talked more about my science achievements and somewhat as a person
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): DECA advisor: 9/10, Really personal and nice
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): didn’t get one
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): didn’t get one

[B]Other:*
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes duh
Intended Major: Eventually pharmacy school
State (if domestic applicant): CO
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $90,000 to 100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM

[B]Reflections:**
Strengths: My essays. They’re definitely what got me in
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my essays
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Purdue, Ohio State, Arizona
Deferred: Wisconsin and Michigan
Denied: North Carolina and Florida
[B]General Comments (if any):** Not to be generic, but YOLO. Texas was a reach but a dream school. Take a chance and work REALLY hard on your essays. Good luck to all you future longhorns.

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Posting daughter’s stats.

In State - Homeschool (NOT for religious reasons), lots of hours at Austin Community College, eclectic education

College: McCombs (accepted)
She got an email on Friday, February 17 @ 4:15 PM indicating to look at her My Status page. She has not gotten a letter yet (today is Sunday, February 19)

ACT: 33
GPA: 4.0
Rank: N/A (non-ranking school - homeschooler - mostly Austin Community College)
Other stats: 39 completed hours at ACC, 4.0 GPA at ACC (dual credit)

Essays: 2 (not sure how strong they were - probably pretty good based on feedback)
Teacher Recs: 1 from Calculus I Prof (Austin Community College), didn’t see it, but probably pretty strong, close to the prof and did very well in her class
Counselor Rec: Strong - from her mom/principal/high school counselor

State or Country: Texas
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Not sure how to answer that
Ethnicity: White
Sex at Birth: Female

Other Factors: Had adequate number of EC’s, did some volunteer work in the summers, had 1 paid job tutoring another ACC student in pre-calc and calculus

Honors: Phi Theta Kappa (community college academic honors)

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In-state, public school
College: Education (Applied Learning & Development: Youth & Community Stds)

SAT: 1980/2400 or 1330/1600
GPA: 2.9/4.0
Rank: 200/509
Other stats: 4’s

Subjective

Essays: Really, really good. I win a lot of awards for essays
Teacher Recs: Really good, my teachers love me despite my laziness, they think I waste my potential haha
Counselor Rec: Also good, my counselor loves me even though I annoy her
Hook (if any): I have a lot of experience in childcare/teaching

State or Country: Texas resident
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Probably a 1-2 (not very competitive)
Ethnicity: Indian subcontinent
Sex at Birth: Female

Other Factors: Volunteered for the mayor since 6th grade, Red Cross, Key Club, Student council, volunteered for Children’s hospital, worked with autistic kids, tutor, babysit (got recs from parents), part-time job teaching swim lessons (got a rec from my boss), teach at my place of worship, Junior achievement (taught at elementary schools), volunteered at the library, was on Academic decathlon team (a C member but earned 10 medals through region/state comp), Debate team captain (earned medals), Tennis team, swim team, I was only in one honor society, English honor society

I have more but I’m too lazy to remember
I plan on changing my major to undeclared and then Psych ASAP

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College: College of Liberal Arts Undeclared, Liberal Arts Honors (accepted), Plan II Honors (accepted)

Stats

SAT: 1300 (650 on both sections)
ACT: 31 Composite (35 English, 27 Math, 31 Reading, 31 Science)
SAT IIs:
GPA: 99.2 (weighted) on 100 scale
Rank: 13/408 (auto-admit)

ECs:
FCCLA (texas officer)
Teen court
Science Bowl
TRiO Upward Bound
NHS

Essays: very good
Teacher Recs: pretty good
Counselor Rec: idk
Hook (if any): URM, first-gen, low-income?

State or Country: TX
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): CTE magnet but very poor academically
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sex at Birth: Female

Other Factors: QB Finalist

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Accepted 2/16/17 on my status
College: McCombs (undeclared)

Stats

SAT: 2150 (old)
GPA: 3.75
Rank: 100/800
Top 13%

Senior year courses: AP Macro, APES, Calc BC, AP Lit, Orchestra
ECs: FBLA, Mu Alpha Theta (Math club), orchestra, solo harpist, NHS, 85 Volunteer hours, NCHS

Essays: Did A and B, thought they were ok
Teacher Recs: alright, got Bs in both teacher’s classes though
Counselor Rec: Good

State or Country: In state non-auto
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): 5!
Ethnicity: Indian
Sex at Birth: F

Best of luck to everyone!

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Accepted
College: College of Natural Sciences (Computer Science)

SAT: 2140 (didn’t send)
ACT: 32
SAT IIs:: 790 Chemistry, 800 Math 2
GPA: 4.82 Weighted, 4.0 Unweighted
Rank: 3/365, so top 1%

Senior courses: Differential Equations, Advanced Data Structures, Advanced Object Oriented Design, AP Physics C E&M, AP English Lit, AP Spanish, Student Aid

Subjective

Essays: Topics A and B, could’ve been written better but was still pretty solid
Teacher Recs: Calc BC teacher: 8.5 or 9/10 Should be really good since I helped teach part of the time lol, but she might not have known me well enough as a person
Stats teacher: 10/10 Helped a ton of people in that class and became good friends with the teacher
Counselor Rec: 9/10 Started off annoying her with scheduling issues all the time, we got to know each other better
Hook (if any): None

ECs:
Johns Hopkins APL Internship, published research paper
Math Team Captain (11, 12)
Math NHS President (12)
Asian Student Union (11, 12)
Gaming Club Co-founder (11, 12)
NHS (11, 12)
Hackathons, Programming competitions
Piano (13 years, finished exams with distinction trophy)
Violin (9 years)
Church, youth orchestra
A bunch of in and out of school tutoring

State or Country: Out of state, Maryland
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): Public, 3 but my grade is probably 3.5-4
Ethnicity: Asian
Sex at Birth: Male

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Decision: [Color=Green] Accepted College of Natural Sciences [/Green]

[Color=Black] Objective:

  • SAT (breakdown): 1380/1600 (680CR, 700M, 7/7/7 Essay)
  • SAT IIs: None
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.60
  • Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.35/5.0
  • Rank: N/A (school doesn't rank)
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Government (3), APUSH (3), AP Psychology (5), AP Chemistry (4)
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP AB Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Spanish Language, AP Biology, Honors English 12, Tech

Extracurriculars/Community Service:

  • Intern at UMD School of Medicine (11)
  • Debate Club (10-11)
  • Biology Club (10-11)
  • Hospital Volunteer (10-12)
  • American Red Cross Ambassador (10-12)
  • Health Fair Volunteer at local temples (9-12)
  • Science National Honors Society (11)

Essays: Wrote two essays that were pretty strong and thorough
Teacher Recs: Really confident they were great
Counselor Rec: Most likely generic

Other:

Intended Major: Biology
Hook (if any): Probably none
State or Country: Maryland
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5): 5
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Sex at Birth: Male

Honestly so surprised that I got in, especially being out of state and having sort of lower stats.

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Accepted
College:CNS-Physics

Stats

SAT:Old SAT. 790CR 800M 800W
SAT IIs: Didn’t take in time for app deadline
GPA:3.7 ish unweighted, honestly I’m too lazy to look up my weighted.
Rank:90ish/600ish
Other stats: in-state.
National merit semi, national Hispanic scholar, AP awards bla bla
Band 4yrs w/leadership and also doing well at individual solo contests
Run my own pet-sitting operation, make major $
Eagle scout
More clubs but irrelevant BC I didn’t do anything in them
Participated in UT MITE summer camp
Took a boatload of aps and did well on exams, not so well in the class always lol. Pretty much exhausted AP curriculum at my school my junior yr but this is common enough at my school that they offer courses like o chem and multivariate calc etc.
There is probably something I’m missing but this is all I can think of.

Subjective

Essays: Didn’t spend too much time on them but still think they turned out pretty well. They were definitely on the unique side and did a good job of showcasing who I am and how I think.
Teacher Recs: I imagine it was strong. Came from my physics teacher of two years. I was one of his best students and we got along pretty well.
Counselor Rec: it’s a big school so probably meh. I think my counselor might know me a little more than some because I do talk to my counselor sometimes, but I wouldn’t say I had much of a relationship. I was mostly just popping in to ask a quick question or grab a form.
Hook (if any):URM? UT has a lot of Hispanics tho so not sure how strong this is.

State or Country:the stars at night, are big and bright clap clap clap clap deep in the heart of TEXAS!!!
High School Type, Relative Competitiveness (1-5):public in Houston area. About a 4.5. every year we send a solid amount of kids to top tier schools like MIT Harvard Stanford etc so I like to think pretty highly of my school.
Ethnicity:white hispanic
Sex at Birth:male

Also just found out the other day I got accepted to deans! Kind of surprising to me since I thought my mediocre rank and lack of any really major achievement would take me out of the running. I guess they really liked my essays or something, not really sure what it was tbh.