UT Austin Chances for CS CNS OOS

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m not to big on the “chance me” thing, but I have not been able to find any recent stats regarding what kind of test scores are within reasonable reach of being accepted into the computer science major at UT Austin. I understand it is more difficult for out of state students to get in, but does anyone have any links to the admission stats? Am I even competitive? (Be honest about your opinions, I’m going to try my hardest to get in either way)

Location: Washington State
SAT: 1310 New (but have been studying all summer and gone through like 5 books plus two more chances to retake it)
ACT: Taking in October
Ethnicity: Multiracial (half white, part filipino/pacific islander)
Gender: Female
GPA: 3.97
Rank: unknown (definitely has to be top 10% or higher though)

Extracurriculars:
-Was recruited by the womens olympic volleyball coach (but sadly couldn’t pursue it due to personal issues)
-Tennis 2 years (varsity sophomore year)
-President of CS club sophomore year
-Violin since 5th grade
-Self taught ukulele player (I write educational songs using mnemonics to help students remember things)
-National Honors Society
-Astronomy club (cofounder)
-photography (won 1st in nature at regional fair)
-snowboarding
-Theatre (in and out of high school)
-Hip Hop Dance
-Ballroom Dance
-Model
-Blogs about STEM opportunities/scholarships available in Washington to help future students
-Washington Aerospace Scholar
-Drew a comic that was published in a math textbook
-horseback riding
-soccer for 6 years
-took 3 online courses (duke/stanford) in computer science just for fun during the fall of senior year (additional 4 classes at community college)
-Japanese club president at community college

Volunteer:
-Through my church (6 years) 500+ hours
-Growing fresh produce for my towns food bank 200+ hours
-Worked at an FFA booth at the state fair
-Assisted at Bellingham Arts Academy for the Youth 100+ hours
-planetarium (50+ hours)
-models for charity fundraisers (50 hours)

Work experience:
-Tutors math/cs at my local community college (2 years)
-Tutored elementary-high school native children in all subjects (2 years)
-office manager at a native fishery (3 years)
-Tour guide/student leader at local community college (1 year)

Awards:
William E. Boeing, Jr. Community Collaboration Award (awarded by Museum of Flight in Seattle during the Washington Aerospace Scholars program)

AP:
Psychology/APUSH (stopped taking AP’s when I started dual-enrollment full-time)

Senior course load:
-intro to linear alg
-programming 1
-programming 2
-differential equations
-multivariable calculus
-engineering physics 1
-algorithms/data structure
-intro to humanities
-sociology
-anthropology
-geography
-potentially another math/science

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I also got first in districts for math olympiad twice, and placed as a team in state.

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Honestly being out of state will hurt your chances tremendously because in state students always get’s priority, BUT DAMN DUDE WHY GO TO UT WHEN YOU CAN GET INTO HARVARD! Your chances are very good if UT has spots for out of state students, but i reiterate a student at your caliber might not like UT because believe me there are a fair share of “slower/drugs 4 lyfe”" students there too.

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UT Austin is highly competitive for all applicants in the non-automatic-admit pool (top 7% of a Texas high school) that takes up about 3/4 of the spaces. Probably best to consider it a reach, especially if your class rank is not in the top few percent. In addition, admission to the CS major may be even more selective than admission to the campus.

As a Washington resident, are you applying to University of Washington (targeting CS direct admission) and other Washington public schools?

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Yes, I am also seeing if I can be directly admitted into the CS program at UW. @ucbalumnus

6

You really think I have a shot at Harvard? I am applying there, but I feel like my SAT score is going to hurt me a lot. WHY NOT GIVE IT A SHOT THO AM I RIGHT @utcswannabe