<p>Hey everyone, I am currently a junior in high school in Oregon, and I'm looking to apply to colleges. I'm really interested in pre-med (probably gonna major in biology?), and I'm trying to narrow down the schools that I like. I've been looking at schools such as USC, Northwestern, Rice, University of Washington, etc, and I've come up on the UT - Austin. Are the sciences as UT Austin any good, and would it be easy to get in out of state?</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: Hitting 2200+ in practice tests, expecting a 2200 on the November SAT (first try)
GPA: 3.7 unweighted, 4.0+ weighted (4 AP's this year, more to come senior year)</p>
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<li>Started a nonprofit that teaches science to at-risk children
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<li>Over 200 hours of community service, etc.</li>
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<p>Not trying to start a "what are my chances" thread, but can anyone let me know if it's worth applying to UT Austin? I know nothing about the school, other than it's big and the environment is supposed to be fun. I like to party (not like crazy), and I love football, which seems to be very popular at UT. Can someone help me out on this?</p>
<p>Pre-med: it is not a major. It is, at most colleges that have it, simply an advisory program that any student in the university considering med school can be part of. It provides advisors and information on med school and what you need to consider doing while in college to prepare for applying to med school. Vast majority of universities have pre-med programs and you should not be picking which college you might attend based on some concept that pre-med is a major. Also, marking that you want pre-med on an application for a college has no impact one way or the other as to whether you will be admitted. If you need to choose a major on the application you will choose something else . The pre-med space simply tells the college that you are interested in its advisory program.</p>
<p>UTexas does accept a decent number of out of state students but you should assume you need higher than the average stats of a Texas resident. Also, UTexas is required to accept any Texas resident who is within a certain class rank (it varies annually from top 8% to 9% ) regardless of SAT or ACT test score with the result that a large percentage of its seats wlll be filled by that group, making it somewhat more difficult for non-residents. Engineering and sciences are well-regarded for the university.</p>
<p>UT does not accept many OOS students. Many that they accept likely have some hook…athlete, child of new faculty, performance student, etc. They don’t even accept all the qualified instate kids. </p>
<p>There’s really no logical reason to go to UT as a premed student unless your family is wealthy and won’t mind blowing a bunch of extra money. You’re OOS so you won’t get aid. </p>
<p>How much will your parents pay? If you don’t know, ask them.</p>
<p>If you want to go OOS and you need aid, then look at schools that will either give you FA or will give you large merit for stats. </p>
<p>Any good school will be fine for premed. All good schools are fine for the premed prereqs. It’s not hard to have good bio, chem, etc classes.</p>
<p>I can’t help but think you have two accounts and are asking the same question in the College Search forum. The comment I provided there is the one thing you need to know about UT is it will cost you a min of $40K/year and you can get pre-med preparations equal to UT at other schools.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no reason to come to UT as a premed with a price tag of 55k for OOS students.</p>
<p>Might be worthwhile for some to do Engineering or business.</p>
<p>I see no reason OP will be turned down if he scores 2000+ since UT will take his huge OOS tuition. The question is what is OP getting in return.</p>
<p>If this student doesn’t rank within the top 8% of his class, then if I were a Texas parent with a top 10% child with a high SAT who was rejected, I’d be very PO’d. </p>
<p>That said, unless the parents are wealthy, paying $45k-50k per year as a premed student an an OOS public seems like a total waste of money. </p>
<p>BTW…I think this student has 2-3 screen names.</p>
<p>It’s now Top 7% for UT. And the overwhelming majority of the class will be filled with these automatically-admitted students (according to the Common Data Set, slightly less than 70% but that’s still A LOT since there’ll be other in-state students, too).
In order to be admitted as an OOS student, you need significantly higher stats than in-state students. You can look it up on the website:
[Out-of-State</a> Students | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/outofstate]Out-of-State”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/whyut/profile/outofstate)
Look at the right hand column you’ll be able to compare with In state.</p>
<p>UT Austin is a great deal if you’re in the top 7%, not so much if you’re OOS:
OOS students must be able to pay $50,000 a year out of pocket (current COA) – and don’t count on loans since you’re only allowed to take on $5,500 your first year, so ask your parents if they have that kind of money in the bank.
If you want to study in Texas, look at Trinity, Southwestern, SMU, Rice (depending on your stats). ALL schools in Texas will be big on football :p. In addition, these schools are private and do not distinguish between instate and out of state.</p>
<p>I’m an admitted freshman who will probably be attending this fall. Pre med at UT is reputable, and they are builing a medical school. However, UT Austin Pre Meds don’t have very high med school acceptance rates to many texas med schools. This is probably because they don’t want more of the same. If you are planing on going to medical school outside of texas then you should be ok.
Also, in terms of admission… Anything is possible, especially as an oos student. My SATs were far from stellar. </p>
<p>550CR (600 second try)
640WR (660 second try)
730M</p>
<p>1920 one time and 1990 super score.</p>
<p>I have a 94.6 UW GPA that UT doesn’t consider, and I’m barely in the too 15% of my class.<br>
I got into UC Berkeley with these low stats as well. </p>
<p>However, I have over a 1000 hours of community service and work as a first responder with my local ems agency. That sort of thing, is what colleges are starting to care more and more about. They aren’t accepting a number, they’re accepting a student who will contribute to the community. </p>
<p>My advice to you is to write a good essay and reach out to your admissions counselor early on about your interest. Also, anything happens do be prepared. </p>
<p>My best friend had a 2280SAT and got denied from all of his schools but UVM… </p>