<p>Do you think uses a similar point system like the UC schools? Or do they look at the application holistically? this is of course for the people who aren't in the top 10%</p>
<p>They look at your app holistically.</p>
<p>I really dont think it is hollistic. It is very stats based.</p>
<p>I would disagree. I know people with average SAT scores and ranks below top 25% who are getting into UT. </p>
<p>I know a kid who was non top 25% decent SATs but AMAZING essays who got into Plan II.</p>
<p>I used to think it was very stats based.. but actually it's a blend of academic and personal achievement. They use a personal achievement index (PAI) that includes your scores(from 1-6) on your two essays, EC's and leadership. They plot your
PAI against your academic achievement index (AI ) on a grid to determine admissions... My S got in with an SAT below 1100 (1500 total) so I know leadership and extracurriculars definitely count!
Here is a link to an explanation of their system from the UT site
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/Inter-raterReliability2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/Inter-raterReliability2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>I guess you are right, but I still think the business school is stats based.</p>
<p>They have the rank cutoffs.</p>
<p>Yeah, but I didn't apply to the business school. College of Natural Sciences!!!
I heard to get into McComb's you have to be top 5% to even be considered.</p>
<p>McComb's needs to work on its admissions process. It's ridiculous</p>
<p>My friend got into BHP and was not top 10%. He did have great SAT scores though and is very charismatic which I'm sure helped him with his interview.</p>
<p>Don't be discouraged if your rank/SATs aren't amazing. Most people think that UT is all about rank and SATs and GPA because of top 10%, but that is actually not true. UT would rather have top 10% abolished and review everyone's application holistically. That shows with the PAI and AI as luckytxmom mentioned.</p>
<p>fyi- got the bus school alumni magazine yesterday. In it, george gau, the dean explains how the top 10% rule has affected UT's b-school rankings. He obviously wasn't happy about it. UT has set a cap of only 75% of their admitted class being in top 10%. the other 25%, they can take into account ec's essays and other factors. Even so, the top 10% group has supressed SAT scores (which is a factor in b-school rankings). He says that UT has the lowest average SAT score of the top 10 undergrad business programs. While other programs avg. SAT is rising, UT's has stayed flat - which is causing it to drop in the rankings. He also said that they don't make it past the top 3%ers in that 75% group. So they start admitting all the top 1% then they move on to the top 2%, etc. til the quota is filled.. which it was last year at top 3%.. these kids can come from a small school and have any SAT score basically. At least for 25% of the class they can look at other factors though.. so that's something. I heard from someone in the engineering school, that last year the engineering school was filled 100% with top 10% kids. Meaning they actually had to turn away kids from other places with perfect SAT scores. This year, they too instituted a cap..I think it was also at 75% of the class being top 10% but not 100% sure on that. I think they were only allowed to institute the cap because 100% of the class was top ten percent last year...
anyway, I thought it was interesting that the dean of the bus. school was so openly critical of the top 10% law.</p>
<p>Not surprised, I wouldn't want kids who are in the top 10% of their school in the ghetto in my school when they are making like a 1200/2400 on the SAT. Honestly, they are probably not going to make it through the program.The top 10% rule is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Looks like for me, I didn't have jack squat for extracurriculars(1 sport for 3 years and 1 club for year and thats it) but I have a good ACT score, AP classes, and I am barely out of top ten percent rank at a large 5A good high school. I figure it will all balance out when the kids who shouldn't be at UT drop out.</p>
<p>i think college admissions is a *****. every school has their own faults..blah..blah.</p>
<p>as far as the top 10% rule, well it didnt really effect me since my school doesn't rank. they aren't allowed to rank or even give an estimate. it's probably because 200 or so students in my class have a 3.5+ unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>i dont know what's worse though - getting denied from a school because of your rank or getting denied because of your race...</p>
<p>also, foxshox, sports take up a lot of time. a lot of clubs at school are a joke..so i think doing a sport is more worthwhile.</p>
<p>Yeah, maybe its more worth while, but it probably doesn't look as good. Oh 1 of those years of sports was bs. But I quit first week in the year, and my coach let me keep the period as an off period. Oh and I have NO service hours as well.</p>
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. I figure it will all balance out when the kids who shouldn't be at UT drop out.
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Who are these students?</p>
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<li>foxshox, no hours? in maryland, 60 hours of community service are required for graduation. Since we live in some over competitive society, everyone has at least 100-200+. I got 80 and called it over. By then, I didn't care and got served my community the other way...getting a job. </li>
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<p>lucky texas if service hours arent required. </p>
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<li>does ut do spring admissions for in-state students? um-college park does that. it's pretty controversial since you see some very or maybe even over eligible students get deferred to spring (unfortunately, most of them are white and umcp likes to take pride on diversity). some teachers believe its their way of having minority students out and letting white kids in.</li>
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<p>The way i have heard is that certain majors that u have to apply to seperately are hollistic....</p>