PLEASE chance for McCombs at UT Austin!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys I'm a rising senior, in state, and I really want to go to the McCombs school at UT Austin. This year, for the first time I believe, they are no longer admitting people based upon class rank at all. It used to be set to where people were auto admitted from the top 1%, 2%, 3% and so on until 75% was filled up, but now 100% of the applicants are admitted holistically and NOT based only upon class rank. The middle 50% sat there is 1220-1420, but this includes a good number of students who were automatically admitted and had sub-par test scores. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>SAT:
Reading - 670
Math - 760
Total - 1430 (UT-Austin looks at SATs out of 1600)</p>

<p>ACT:
English Usage – 32
Reading – 29
Math – 34
Science – 33
Composite - 32</p>

<p>Bible study leader (lessons taught 100% by me to roughly 15 underclassmen kids), Secretary for the European History Club, JV basketball captain junior year, on the youth advisory committee for the new science museum in Dallas (help to design the museum and create new ways to attract a diverse audience), five honor societies, top 10%, Hispanic (not sure if that helps or not), National Hispanic Scholar, and lastly I intern with Conference USA (an NCAA Division-I athletic conference host to schools such as rice, SMU, UAB, Houston, South Florida, etc) where I help to construct their basketball schedule for the next year.</p>

<p>My unweighted gpa is a 3.7, my weighted gpa is a 4.29. My school doesn't do class rank, they just let you know if you are in the top 10% (which I am), but from comparing my gpa to that of others it looks as though I'm roughly in the 9th percentile. Also I go to a very competitive high school that was just ranked as the #3 open enrollment school in the country, so it’s definitely competitive.</p>

<p>I take the most rigorous course load offered at my school. I will have taken 14 AP classes by the time I graduate, I’m two years accelerated in math, and all of my classes are honors on top of that.</p>

<p>What chances do I have of getting into McCombs? If my chances aren’t very good, what can I do to enhance them? Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>Also, a more specific question, along with chancing it would be helpful if you all could comment on my test scores (if they are fine as-is or if they could use a bump?). I’m just super paranoid about the listed middle 50% being deflated greatly due to the amount of kids with mediocre test scores that were automatically admitted!</p>