OOS Chances at University of Arizona, UT Austin, and UCLA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello all! I plan on applying all OOS next year, public and private, and I understand that many public flagship campuses have extremely low admittance for students — requiring extremely high SATs and stats — who are not residents. Given this, if any estimations could be given for my chances at these schools, it would be fantastic; thank you!!

Intended Major: Arabic, Arabic Studies, or MENAS depending on the school, intent to enroll in UT or UA Arabic Flagship programs if admitted.

Stats and Numbers:

SAT: 2100, one time taken
SAT 2: No scores back yet, but took Lit and USH and felt really good about both
GPA: 4.43 weighted. Straight As in every class since freshman year (except Chemistry) straight A+s junior year.
School does not rank students.

Classes:

All honors, will have 6 APs (German, APUSH, Lang, Lit, Gov, APES) and four dual-enrollment university credits including a research seminar (Calculus, Photography, Advanced Math Modeling, Gender and Culture in the Middle East/ NA research seminar) by the end of senior year. Took Arabic to the highest level, was granted a scholarship through the U.S. State Department in 2015 (NSLIY) to live and study Arabic in Morocco for the summer. Served as a TA in Arabic junior year.

ECs and Leadership:

Model Congress member for all of high school, served on Board of Directors as Director of Logistics for student-run conference for 2 years, currently club treasurer and conference Director of Outreach

Liberty in North Korea Rescue Team member and current Director of Outreach and Education

Arabic Club (hopefully will be elected President in Monday inshallah :slight_smile: member all 4 years and only Arabic student ever to TA

German National Honor Society, Japanese National Honor Society, English, Math, Russian NHSes next year inshallah

Translator and ESL teacher for Arabic-speaking immigrants at an after-school program

Attempting to start a cooperation between Arabic Club and SANDBLAST charity to raise funds for Sahrawi refugees in Algeria

Girl Scout, gold certified program leader since 8th grade

Co-chair of church Youth Council

Member of school a capella group and independent singer/songwriter, occasionally competing in local competitions

Demographics:

White female

Work experience:

Private math tutor 6 days per week

I hope this helps. Thanks for your time!! If you can offer any other information regarding merit aid at any of these schools, that would be fantastic as well. :slight_smile:

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Are all these schools affordable?

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It really depends on how much merit aid and private scholarships I can manage. We are at that weird income bracket where we are not low enough for need-based aid but not high enough to comfortably afford anywhere full-tuition.

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UCLA gives little merit aid so unless you receive significant private scholarships, expect to pay close to $55K/year. Have you run the net price calculators on these schools?

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^To add to that point, UT won’t be a good choice either for an OOS student who needs financial aid. UT Austin is $45,000 for OOS and they don’t offer much aid.

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If you are relying on private scholarships for OOS publics, then I will assume that you won’t have enough funding to pay for those schools.
Find some schools you can afford.

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You will almost certainly get into UT, I’m pretty sure the Arabic Major is in the College of Liberal Arts, which is not nearly as competitive as many other majors like Computer Science or Business, usually when students don’t get into those they are offered many of the majors in COLA.