What are my chances of getting into UT Civil Engineering?

I’m from out of state.

I have a 4.0 GPA with all honors and AP’s.

AP’s I have/will take by the end of HS
AP World
AP US
AP Lang
AP Gov
AP Calc BC
AP Chemistry
AP Italian

I am a member of three honor societies:
National, Language, and Math.

I also have taken physics and 3 college level engineering courses, with addition to other college level electives.

I work for a test prep company as an assistant during the year, and a counselor at a sleepawau camp in the summer.

I’m a member of 2 clubs, Patriots Club and Key Club, and I have done many hours of community services.

My SAT is the weakest part of my resume but I’m working to improve it. I got a 1290 with 690 in math and 600 in English.

Please let me know what y’all think…

I think your SAT scores will definitely hurt your chances. What is your class rank?

@MaineLonghorn my school doesn’t rank but I’m definitely in the top 10%.

You would need to be higher than top 10%, I believe.

@MaineLonghorn my school doesn’t rank so I just gave an estimate, I’m not sure where I am ranked but it’s pretty high.

@cooldude234 you are just making duplicate thread with different schools, like your Georgia Tech thread. Since these are some of the hardest schools for an out of state student for engineering to get into, the advice will be the same. You need to get the Sat scores way up. Yes, there are outliers that will tell you someone got in with your scores. But that will be few and far between. You need to be in the 75% of the stats of that school to even be looked at. You work at a test prep company. Challenge them to get your scores up. It’s brilliant that you work there.

You will get the same response for Berkeley, Vanderbilt, WashU, Northwestern, Illinois, Cornell, Michigan.

Yes, you are compared to your school /district but until they do away with standardized testing, they still count.

My son with 34 Act (35’s in math /science) with tons of engineering things, was rejected by Austin and wait listed by GT. He’s at Michigan in engineering.

Many families at their open house kids were rejected by the list I stated but all accepted at Michigan. I know the opposite was true also. Many Texas, Georgia kids were rejected by their own state schools.

What is your state school’s? Usually your best option including financially.

What I “made” my son do was look at the top ten schools (he was more fixated on that) but to pick and apply to some schools as back ups in the 11-20,21-30 and do on to about 50 or other schools he liked. What “we” both found out is that there are some truly great schools, with great merit out there. It is a competitive time to apply for engineering. Have safeties to your safeties.

He got accepted to 3-4 (forgot) in the top ten but accepted to pretty much everything below that. (take out Vanderbilt).

As I told both my kids… You will get accepted, deferred, rejected and wait listed by some really great schools. Just put yourself in the best situation to get accepted.

@Knowsstuff I’m not really a fan of any of the schools in my state of NY, the only schools I had a little interest in were Cornell and Syracuse.

Just some friendly advise above. I wish you well.

Your SAT score really doesn’t support your profile, what are your AP scores? What do you do at your work at the test prep company? IMO an application to UT is a donation of the application fee.
Look at your instate schools. Have the money talk with your parents… I assume you are a junior, do some real work on testing and try the ACT. Is that a real SAT score, not a PSAT? With prep? Did you go in overconfident?

@Sybylla I’m not a good standardized test taker. I got a 4 on the AP world test. So the SAT is the only really weak part of what would be in my application. If everything else is perfect I’m not sure why they wouldn’t accept me, everyone has flaws…

UT is a very stats driven school. They also take 90% of their applicants in state so it’s very competitive for all out of state students, especially for engineering.

@cooldude234. You work at a test prep company. Exchange getting paid for free testing help. Talk to your parents about a tutor if you can afford it. Take tests weekly. My son was also a bad test taker and hard work got him to a Act 34.

Your just not understanding the competition you are up against. They don’t have flaws. Talk to your school counselor. What are they telling you? Look at naviance if your school uses it. Has anyone got in with those Sat score.

Something tells me your taking the Sat since your school offers it. Take the ACT! Take some tests prep exams practice tests on ACT. I bet you right now that you will do better. Some kids just do better on the ACT. Lots of engineering types do better on the ACT vs Sat.

Sorry to jump on your threads but you need to educate yourself.

@Knowsstuff I took the ACT and I wasn’t really a fan compared to the SAT. I have already taken prep classes for it also.

I am not sure if you got in, but if not don’t get discouraged. A guy at my school was bottom 50% in rank, with a Weighted GPA of less then 4, no ECs or leadership, only in Basket ball(non varsity), SAT below 1250, got in to this very same major and I am still in shock…This is IS