oos chances last hopes

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>location: new jersey
ethnicity- white(italian)- and i know white's not an ethnicity
male</p>

<p>Raw numbers:
ACT- 32
SAT 2 math 2- 780
history- 770
biology- 780
3.81/4.0 gpa unweighted
4.2 weighted
27/700 rank
Ap's
calc-5
stat-4
us history-4
bio-5
chem-4
art history-5
psychology-5
euro-5</p>

<p>extacurricluar:
co-president of winter track and field- 4 years all varsity
co-president of volleyball team- 4 years, 3 varisty
founder/co-president of independent youth of america- 2 years
friendship club(gives a chance for handicapped/regular students to interact)-
doesn't give out leadership awards, but i participated at every meeting)-
3 years
9th grade was separated from the high school, which is why my ec's didn't pick up until 10th grade</p>

<p>volunteer:
buddy ball: help out mentally/physically handicapped kids play baseball-
4 years
animal shelter
i have 750 hours total volunteer hours</p>

<p>summer work experience:
9th grade: trained to be counselor for camp that deals with mentally/physically handicapped kids
10th grade: took counselor job, and also i took job pumping gas
schedule was like
8-4 counselor, 8-12 pumping gas
11th grade: same as 10th grade
12th grade: same as 11th grade, plus took leadership role in teaching younger counselors- it wasn't just basic teaching- it was like what to do if a kid has a stroke, etc.</p>

<p>awards:
nothing really significant
-top sprinter on track team in 11th grade
-will take 4-6 in county 400m at county competition- doesn't seem impressive, but the top kids who win the sprinting end up getting drafted to top colleges- every year for past 10 years, at least 2 kids have gotten full rides to usc, ucla, wake forest, rutgers, or ohio state
-we won states in volleyball when i was in 10th grade, won county when i was in 11th
-hold the school record for highest vertical jump
-have won "best student" in gym class at least once every year lol
-6 varsity letters
-national ap scholar
-president community service award- gold for 2 years, silver for 2 years</p>

<p>it sucks to see 3 and a half years of extremely hard work just laid out in front of me on one little post</p>

<p>please chance me, regular decision</p>

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<p>Is that even a question? Look at your scores. You are in. I'm from NJ as well and I just got into UT with numbers lower than that and similar EC/awards. You're 90% chance in.</p>

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<p>Your in.. this is the reason why I didn't do anything in high school, I could do none of the stuff you did and end up in the same exact place. Not that any of the stuff you did was bad, most of it was really good but time consuming, but still gotta love flawed systems.</p>

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<p>OOS is very competitive...I think I read about 1/6 get in. However, you seem to be a stellar applicant.</p>

<p>Why is the ACT lower than the SAT Subject test scores, if I might ask? Did you just study a lot for the SAT IIs?</p>

<p>And does your transcript have any freshman grades on it? Because if it does you'll probably want to put down your extracurriculars from middle school if you can remember them on the app.</p>

<p>But it shouldn't matter--I'd say you are a lock.</p>

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<p>SAT II's are way easier to score high on then regular SATs.. The SAT IIs actually test knowledge(basic knowledge anyway), and are a lot easier graded, while SATs just try to trick you into getting **** wrong. I know tons of people who scored 750+ on SAT II math, but only few score higher than 750 on actually SAT math.</p>