I am a senior coming from a competitive school in Northern Virginia. I have about a 4.071 GPA and an SAT score of 1940. I know by SAT isn’t stellar, but I have a lot of leadership roles, internships, and extracurriculars I have written about in my application.
Some include: 1. Internship working with a local photojournalist: worked on projects for Teen Vogue and H&M
2. Job with an up and coming music production company as a creative director.
3. Internship with a local newspaper, leading me into my current job: Paid freelance writer and photographer.
4. I also founded my own company/have my own website for my photography.
5. I started a project at my school like “Humans of New York”, interviewing students at my school so they can share their unique stories. Over 1,020 likes.
Other academic credentials:
- Won a Spanish scholarship freshman year
- Member of three honors societies
- Varsity Scholar Athlete for 3 Years
I will graduate having taken 8 AP classes and an AP Scholar with Honor.
More extracurriculars:
- Section leader (bass player) of school’s highest orchestra (for three years), member of the orchestra since Freshman year (participated in a district orchestra as well). I’ve also participated in our German Exchange program all four years, traveling to Germany twice with my orchestra to perform.
- Varsity track athlete Freshman to Junior Year (two time regional qualifier)
- I’ve played soccer from age 5 to age 17, hoping to start again in spring. I was team captain of a travel soccer team for the last couple of years.
- Founded photography club at school (and president)
- Raised over $15,000 with a few of my friends for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.
- Vice President of my orchestra in 2014, Social Chair for the past 2 years
- Head of decorations for my school’s homecoming this year through leadership class
- Student mentor of underclassmen last year (competitive to get)
- Social Media manager of a nonprofit organization that has now expanded to a national level (organization started by a classmate over the past year)
I know U Texas at Austin is very difficult to get into out of state. I was wondering A) what are my chances and B) don’t students start getting accepted or rejected between February and March?