Top10ers' Major Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>Hey, I'm just wondering about what it takes for a top-ten percent'er to get into Cockrell. Is it super competitive? If the odds are small then what kind of stats does a typical 10%'er need to have to get into it (SAT, GPA, rank, ECs, etc...)?</p>

<p>I'm currently a junior, so for my case those 10%'s should me about 8%, I guess.</p>

<p>First off, let me tell you the fact that I'm a "fresh-off-the-boat", came to the US 2 yrs ago.
So my freshman grades didn't very well reflect my real abilities (lowest was 79 for Reading (what is that?, I know)), due to the hardship of adapting to English. </p>

<p>Then I transferred to a regular HS (from the previous school which specialized in educating "fresh" immigrants) sophomore year, and took only one Honors class (Geometry).</p>

<p>It sucked when everyone was taking ALG 2 and I wasn't, because I had to take ALG 1 in the previous school.</p>

<p>This year, I am taking 4 Honors: Comp Sci, ALG 2 ( with sophomores :mad:), Physics, Precalculus; APUSH; and 3 regulars: English III, Art 1, Spanish 1. (note that I'm taking 2 math classes, so that I can take Calculus next year.)</p>

<p>By the way, can you comment a bit on my under-construction stats:</p>

<p>-1900 SAT (CR 500, M 770, W 630) (embarassed 5 mins.)</p>

<p>-GPA 3.75 UW, 3.94 W.</p>

<p>-Rank: 61/720 (8% is about 59 :(), but it's going to jump dramatically after this semester (jumped from 94/740 last semester. whoop!)</p>

<p>-ECs: (Not much, because I didn't know that college application would need these until this year:eek:.) Robotics, Math Team (school's best performer so far in UIL Math, hoping to pass District, which is in 2 weeks), doing TSA (school has tradition of winning Nationals), NHS(blah) and KeyClub, JV Soccer Sophomore year.</p>

<p>-Awards: Nothing except 2nd Place Maze Award and Engineering Design Award in RoPro (robot programming) at UT Arlington.</p>

<p>-Recs: Might get excellent ones from Math and Physics teachers (who most likely I'm gonna' have next year for Calculus BC and Physics C)</p>

<p>I'm taking:
-ACT and SAT Subject Tests (Math I, Math II and Physics) this June.
-SAT in October (so I have time to dead-study.)</p>

<p>*Alright, should I send the old 1900 SAT if I get higher scores (CR and all combined) in this October SAT?</p>

<p>*Do you think the Subject Tests would help lift up the chance when applying to Cockrell (assuming they would be in range 700-800), or the Admissions Officers wouldn't be able to see them anyways.</p>

<p>*Another "Do you think" that writing essay C about my language hardship would help a lot? Sorry for the wording but I mean I'm definitely going to do so, but what I'm asking is how much would that bring me up to the fair game?</p>

<p>*By the way, I think I'm not doing anything other than Engineering, my only passion.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

<p>{Sorry for a long post.}</p>

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<p>get in TOP 8 and you will get iin, just apply early
work hard this is your last semester to get in TOP 8</p>

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<p>So pierrechn did you mean I would get in UT only or Cockrell? For sure I would be in top 8% by the end of this year!</p>

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<p>Being in the top 8% will NOT guarantee that you get into Cockrell. It also depends which engineering department you apply to. Architectural and Biomedical are VERY hard to get into.</p>

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<p>So MaineLonghorn, could you chance my AE or ECE entrance?</p>

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<p>Where are you, MaineLonghorn? Really need your mastery in this!!</p>

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<p>TexanFob, I don’t know specifics, unfortunately. I’m not a master by any means, lol. I know ArchE enrolls, what, about 45 students a year. Biomed enrolls about 100. So they probably accept around twice that many. If you look at the Biomed website, they refer to taking the top of the applicants, and then taking the top of THOSE. (That’s why I still can’t figure out how DS got accepted, but I’m not going to ask, lol. His SAT was 2220, and his GPA is 94.5 - that’s the only way his school reports grades, not even by percentile.)</p>

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<p>Hey MaineLonghorn, congratulations on your son’s admittance to BME. But what was his class rank percent if you don’t mind telling?</p>

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<p>frever, his school doesn’t rank kids at all. The top ten kids in the class will be recognized at the end of the year, but that’s it.</p>

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<p>*Another “Do you think” that writing essay C about my language hardship would help a lot? Sorry for the wording but I mean I’m definitely going to do so, but what I’m asking is how much would that bring me up to the fair game?</p>

<p>Yes, I would definitely suggest writing an essay about the language barriers (but note that you have knocked them down), culture shock, and adapting to the social norms of Texas. I think that would definitely help your cause.</p>