<p>I am currently an American citizen in my senior year in India. I scored 1960 on my SAT(640-Reading, 710-Math, 610-Writing)
I am my school basketball team's captain and the school's vice captain. All of my ECs are basically playing basketball at the domestic, national and international levels. I'm looking at Computer Science/Engineering as my major. Would I be able to get into the above mentioned schools?</p>
<p>Also, as mentioned on the TAMU website( <a href="http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/admitted">http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/admitted</a> ), I would qualify for an auto academic admission.</p>
<p>Please help!!</p>
<p>I don’t think that the information you have provided is sufficient enough to really say. I applied to UT Austin 4 years ago and got accepted into Electrical & Computer Engineering. I was in the top 7% of my high school class and had a 1670 SAT with my highest being in the math (I don’t remember what my math was). My EC’s were slightly less than yours.</p>
<p>Oh okay!
The top 7% part explains your admission, then.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Being in the top 7% (at my time four years ago) guaranteed admissions to the university but it did not guarantee my major of choice. They could have accepted me into the university but reject my first choice major at which point they look at the second choice. They could even possibly have rejected my second choice. Thus it’s very possible to be in the top 7% and get accepted into the university but not get the major of choice. In that scenario they would dump you into the school of undergraduate studies which is the equivalent of not having a major but still being at the university. Within the university, different colleges could have different requirements to transfer into so there’s no guarantee you will be able to transfer into what you want to major in if you don’t get it the first time under undergraduate admissions.</p>
<p>Ah. I see.
How does transferring within the UT system work? Is it easy?</p>
<p>First I’m confused as to why this is posted in the Homeschool forum and second the auto admit policy applies to students that graduate from a <em>Texas</em> high school. It doesn’t mean you won’t get in but you will not be an auto admit.</p>
<p>Yeah my post in this section was by accident.
Oh okay.
Thanks!</p>