<p>Hey
I'm an out of state African American from California applying to UT at Austin. I meet all requirements and have a solid SAT score. I looked on the their site and a few other college admissions websites like this one and saw that they mostly care about class rank? My school is a charter public and currently doesn't do class rank so how would I stack up and what would the admissions committee the look at?</p>
<p>Normally they would use your high school profile which is sent from your GC but I think I’ve read that UT automatically puts students who don’t have a class rank (including in-state students) into the most competitive pool for open admission. That being the case it will be the rest of your record that will count (rigor, GPA, stats…). Are your parents good with paying $50K/year for you to attend UT?</p>
<p>If I don’t get any scholarships , Financial Aid , etc then probably not. I was really interested in UT till I learned of how much they value class rank over anything. </p>
<p>For better or worse, the majority of the admissions process at UT is highly formulaic. Rank is a big factor in both the in-state automatic admission process and the “holistic” admission process that fills the rest of the seats.</p>
<p>I applied to UT many years ago from an unranked in-state school, and the school counselor included a letter describing the nature of the school and why students were unranked. Their current admission guidelines for unranked applicants confirm that this is still an essential step: “Your school will need to send us information about its ranking policy and provide us with a school profile to help us consider your academic achievement without an explicit rank for you.” </p>
<p>I did end up getting not only an admission but a significant merit aid package; being unranked is not an automatic disqualifier. You’d be in the competitive “holistic” pool anyway as an OOS applicant, so if your stats are good otherwise you should go ahead and apply. Just make sure the GC includes the school profile.</p>
<p>However, keep in mind OOS admissions are constrained due to automatic in-state admissions taking up 75% of the incoming class, According to the 2012-13 CDS, there are roughly 2,000 OOS undergraduates in a total undergraduate population of ~40,000. </p>
<p>And as an OOS student there are few scholarships open to you. They would have to be merit and should be listed on the UT web sites.</p>
<p>So when I’am placed into the competitive pool of OOS applicants, they will then take GPA , Test Scores , and everything else into account? Or just essay’s , recommendations , activities , community service , etc?</p>
<p>“What We Consider During Holistic Review” #lmgtfy</p>
<p><a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/decisions/review”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/decisions/review</a></p>