OOS Male Chances

[Dmac25]

<p>3.6 GPA
2100 SAT 700-W 650-M 750-W
Homeschooled
African-American</p>

<p>What do you guys think my chances are if I apply regular decision?</p>

[MidwestMom2Kids_1]

<p>Did your classes include everything on the UT required HS curriculum and then some? If so, given your SAT score, your Academic Index (AI) will be high.</p>

<p>Write good essays and have your application include “Leadership, Extracurricular Activities, Awards/honors, Work experience, Service to school or community” - I’m sure you don’t need to have a lot in every area because my daughter was admitted from out of state with very little “Work experience”. </p>

<p>If you took have good essays and good “Leadership, Extracurricular Activities, Awards/honors, Work experience, Service to school or community” on your application, your Personal Achievement Index will be high, too, so if you combine that with classes that exceed the required Texas minimum, you will be accepted.</p>

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The UT Austin admissions routine for students not automatically admitted is elaborate and entails a broad concept of merit. Beginning with the entering class of 1997, for those not automatically admitted, the idea of merit was expanded from class rank and test scores exclusively to the inclusion of the following factors:</p>

<p>The Academic Index (AI)
High School Record:
o Class rank
o Completion of UT required high school curriculum
o Extent to which students exceed the UT required units
o SAT/ACT score</p>

<p>The Personal Achievement Index (PAI)
o Scores on two essays
o Leadership
o Extracurricular Activities
o Awards/honors
o Work experience
o Service to school or community
o Special circumstances:

• Socio-economic status of family
• Single parent home
• Language spoken at home
• Family responsibilities
• Socio-economic status of school attended
• Average SAT/ACT of school attended in relation to student’s own SAT/ACT
• Race (addition approved by the UT Board of Regents in 2003)</p>

<p>Thus, merit includes the ambition to tackle rigorous high school coursework, the production of quality prose, and the desire to make a difference in one’s school, home, or community. Evidence of employability (work), and some sense of having excelled in any number of areas are also considered. Moreover, admissions officials place these attributes in the context of the circumstances under which the student lived.</p>

<p>The Academic Index (AI) is determined by a multiple regression equation utilizing a high school percentile derived from an explicit class rank [1-(class rank/class size)]*100, and verbal and math test scores from the ACT Assessment or the SAT I: Reasoning Test. The equation produces a predicted freshman year grade point average.</p>

<p>After a review of the high school transcript, an applicant can be “awarded” a tenth of a point if he/she exceeded UT’s required high school curriculum. Thus, AI values range from 4.10-0.00.</p>

<p>The Personal Achievement Index (PAI) is UT Austin’s holistic approach to admissions. Admissions officers are trained each year to conduct comprehensive reviews of every application from students not automatically admitted. All applicants are required to submit two essays. Each are read and scored on a scale of 1-6. The application itself, and any attachments an applicant chooses to include, is then reviewed. A “personal achievement” score on a scale of 1-6 is then assigned to the application. </p>

<p>From the three scores, two essays and a personal achievement score, a PAI is computed. The equation reflects a 1997 faculty decision to give slightly more weight to the personal achievement score than the essays:
PAI = [(personal achievement score * 4) + (mean essay * 3)] / 7.</p>

<p>AIs and PAIs of applicants not automatically admitted are then plotted on an admissions decision grid.

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<p>Are you applying for any of the honors programs?</p>

[Dmac25]

<p>I meant CR-700 M-650 W-750 (Typo),but Im not applying for any honor programs,I have very little EC’s thats what im mainly worried about,so im hoping my AI puts me over the top,and my curriculum covers UT’s requirements.</p>