Out of State (Northeast)
33 ACT (about a 1460-70 SAT equivalent)
3.81 UW GPA; 4.7 Weighted
Strong course schedule
Very interested in marketing major at McCombs; have 2 solid marketing internships (one for summer and one summer + fall).
*Have taken 4 online college courses related to marketing
*4 year participant in two sports
*President of 2 School Clubs
*National Honor Society
*43 applicants from my high school over the last 5 years; 9 accepted (unsure of how many were for McCombs).
Thanks!
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks!
The OOS admission rate for UT Austin is 8%, so you now know what your chances are. It is almost a certainty that over 8% of the OOS applicants will have stats as strong or stronger than yours, so that will make admission even more difficult. Furthermore, since UT admits by the major and not to the university, popular majors like business and engineering can be even more competitive to gain admission.
With COVID possibly producing a lot of unknowns, previous years’ stats may not be as useful to predict admission. Maybe there will be less OOS applicants this year which could boost your chances.
Best of luck!
I think your chances are 50/50. My oldest S is an OOS junior in McCombs, and his stats were the same as yours and he got into McCombs (but not BHP). I suspect it is harder to get in now than 3 years ago, but I don’t know how covid will affect admissions. Anyway McCombs is great and S is extremely happy. Good luck with admission.
I am not a huge fan of the “chance me” posts because none of us really know, but I TOTALLY understand the thirst for SOME kind of reassurance or measuring stick or just anything you can get to help understand this process. My suggestion would be to look at last year’s 2024 thread and see if you can find OOS McCombs posts with similar stats to your own, but even that is a crapshoot and will do little to help in your own situation. I wish I could offer more help! And even if I had perfect insight, no one knows if the crazy covid situation is going to mean more or less spots or what the implications are regarding covid in admissions this year.
My son applied to UT last year. He was an auto admit who did not get his 1st or 2nd choice major. He had a 1410, was 26/700+, took 14 AP classes, was on a 2x Worlds Robotics team. He wanted Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, but he got civil engineering. He appealed twice and his appeals were denied. UT was his top choice, but the only school he applied to where he did not get his preferred major. I scoured the boards looking for anecdotal posts about engineering students successfully appealing their major placement, but the bottom line is, sadly, you just have to let the whole process play out and trust that, no matter what, everything will work out, which it will. My son is a freshman at the University of Michigan studying his 1st choice major, Mechanical Engineering. If his appeal had worked, he’d be at UT, but it worked out the way it was supposed to, and he ended up at a better engineering school anyway. Good Luck! Now, I will try to take my own advice as I have twin seniors this year who also want to got to UT. Kill me now!