What are my chances- University of Texas at Austin

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi guys- I’m absolutely IN LOVE with UT Austin. I just submitted my application and I was looking to see what others thought about my chances.

I’m a Texas resident because I’m a military dependent and our home of record is Texas, but I’m graduating from an Oklahoma high school. If I get in, I’ll be going to UT on the GI Bill, because I qualify for in-state tuition. Yes, I’ve checked that through the Office of Admissions.

GPA: 4.0 weighted, 3.87 (I think?) unweighted

Class rank: Top 7% at least. I know I’m 5 out of probably 95 but I used 80 because I know we’ve lost some students. Not THAT many, but hey, just in case.

ACT: 31

AP coursework: (note that my school is small and only offers Lang, Lit, Bio, Art, and Music Theory) AP Biology (4), AP Literature (4), AP Lang (haven’t tested yet).

ECs: Youth Leadership Exchange’s Youth in Action, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Teen Leaders in Philanthropy Class, Oklahoma Girls State (I was elected senator there, authored, presented, and passed an education bill, Academic Team (captain my senior year), Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor’s Society.

Honestly, I feel like my Essay A is pretty good. I wrote about being a military child and that my environment has shaped me as a person because of the way it’s changed. I chose Essay S as my optional essay (yet to submit through MyStatus) because I have a chronic illness and I missed so much school trying to get a diagnosis, going to the ER and doctor’s appointments and being ill that I would have failed out of school every year if my school didn’t offer an appeal system and I still made primarily A’s and participated in ECs and all that.

I have four letters of rec- counselor, two teachers who I know will do a GREAT job, and my program director at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

I’m also applying to The University of Oklahoma (backup), Harvard, Johns-Hopkins, and Vanderbilt (DREAM SCHOOLS).

Thanks y’all!

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What major?

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The College of Natural Sciences- Biology or Biochemistry.

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Since you qualify as an in-state applicant it’s most likely a high match, as long as there isn’t a lot of variance in your ACT subject scores (27 in Math but a 34 in English etc.) Unfortunately you don’t qualify for automatic admissions since you go to a high school outside of Texas, so you’ll be a holistic admit. That puts you at a little bit of a disadvantage.

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All of my sub scores are in the 30s except for my math which is a freaking 25. Not because I’m bad at math- but because I’m slow at it. I talked to a representative at the College of Natural Sciences when I was at UT this August, she told me that it wasn’t a big deal at all- so hopefully she was right. If I don’t get in, I’ll probably lose my mind. It’s the best place for me because my family is getting transferred to Nebraska (and I do NOT want to go to school there) and I have family near UT.

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A 25 in math might actually hurt you quite a lot. Math is the most important subsection since it’s weighted twice as much as any other section in the admissions formula. It wouldn’t be a big deal at all if you were applying to Liberal Arts, but with CNS it most likely will be. You should still apply though since the rest of your application is within range.

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I’m taking it again on Oct. 22nd, and I’m going to spend the next month studying like crazy for the math section. My scores are being sent to UT and a few others. I’ve already finished my application, I’m just waiting on my UT EID to submit my documents on MyStatus.

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UT accepts a max of 10% of students being combined either OOS international. This put you at a major disadvantage. UT does not look at GPA, so your class rank is the only factor that counts in that matter. Your ACT is good, but the bottom 25% for OOS students is a 30. Improving your ACT is one of the only things that will raise your chances of getting in.

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@jpgranier If you read the OP you would know that she qualifies for in-state since their home is in Texas and presumably they pay taxes in the state if Texas.

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My application is considered in-state, as far as I’ve been told by UT and the DOD, because my home of record is Texas. I just don’t qualify for the top 7% automatic admission because I didn’t graduate from a Texas high school.

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My parents vote absentee in Texas, my dad has a Texas drivers license, their intended place to live after my dad retires is Texas, if Texas had state tax, that’s where we’d pay state tax etc. My dad is just stationed in Oklahoma right now.