University of North Texas - Chance please!

<p>Hi, my name is Asher. I'm an out-of-state student living in a town of 200 people and going to a high school of 600 students (different town, same county). Hardly any students ever go out of state. I'd guess about half to 75% go to the local community college or don't go to college at all. The other 25% go to a state university. It's a rural area. I don't know if any of this stuff matters but thought I'd give a little bit of insight to my personal situation.</p>

<p>So now to the important stuff. I was looking at UNT and I'm sort of interested in applying. I also plan to audition for their music school, but we can leave that aside. I just want to see what my chances are to get into the school and what kind of financial aid/scholarships I could get.</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted) and don't know about weighted, but I'm guessing 4.2 or 4.3.
ACT: 26 (writing: 8 out of 12)
SAT: Haven't taken, probably won't take. Does UNT frown on that?
Honors classes: Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry, English 1, 2, and 4.
AP classes: World History, English 3, Economics, Government (I don't know why Eng. 3 is AP and the others aren't. Kinda strange)
Those are all the APs my high school offers.
Class Rank: Don't know, but certainly in the top 10%. Maybe even top 5%, I don't know.</p>

<p>I've heard different things about the Texas laws for public universities. Can anybody give me some clear info on that stuff? I know that the top 8% of a graduating class can get into the public universities, in state or out of state. But what other laws are there? I've also heard that if you get $1000 worth of scholarship to a Texas public school, than you immediately qualify for in-state tuition there. Is this true? Please give other helpful info on this kind of stuff too. Thanks so much for considering my post!</p>

<p>Asher</p>

<p>Hey Saxguy, honestly you will get into North Texas easily. You should consider applying to their honors college as you will probably get into that as well. I’m not really sure on most of the laws that you are talking about but the 8 percent rule is for instate students only and is actually the top 9 percent for UT (for the 2013 class it will be top 8 percent) and top 10 percent for all the other state schools in Texas.</p>

<p>Thanks for the comments. I’m pleased to see you’re sure I will get accepted. And thanks for clearing me up on that, I don’t know where I got the impression that it was also for out-of-state. But that’s fine if I have a good chance of getting accepted anyway. Thank you.</p>