<p>Just the question above.
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<p>Possibilities:</p>
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<li>Talk to your guidance counselor immediately.</li>
<li>Do something interesting/compelling for a gap year and then reapply.</li>
<li>Consider getting some basic courses - Writing, Calc 1 etc out of the way at a local community college.</li>
<li>Check with your guidance counselor - every year there are schools looking for students after the commitment deadline. They aren’t of the HYPMS variety but there are occasionally some good schools on the list.</li>
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can be a bad idea because taking any classes during the regular school year after HS graduation causes some colleges to consider you a xfer applicant, not a freshman applicant</p>
<p>Start looking for schools with rolling admissions. Also, there should be a list of schools that still have spaces. I’m sure that someone around here will send the link. It’s usually a NACAC link. I can’t seem to find it, but I think it comes out every year.
Also, do you know the reason why there were no acceptances? That would be the starting point to know how to target the next set of schools.</p>
<p>We are feeling the same thing today. We live in Texas D only took SAT as a JR. and only scored a 1490. Took the ACT in October and Math and Reading scores brought the overall down to a 23. Ranked number 86 out of 709 at a competitive 5 A high school. significant number of DC classes and credit graduating on the distinguished plan. Cheerleader all 4 years, HOSA area president, countless hours of community service. Received only CAP at University of Texas and Blinn TEAM at A & M. We are devastated b/c we thought she would have no problem going where ever she wanted to go and she is heart broken b/c she worked extremely hard and in the end feels that it didn’t matter. She was accepted to Baylor but the cost is so extensive.</p>
<p>Here is one person’s story: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/192395-no-acceptances-one-kids-story-year-later.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/192395-no-acceptances-one-kids-story-year-later.html</a></p>
<p>without knowing interests, stats, location etc etc etc I would 2nd the schools with rolling admissions… my daughter is still getting emails from some schools saying “it is not too late”— Best of Luck.</p>
<p>If your daughter opts for a Gap Year, she should think about finding out just exactly why her ACT and SAT scores aren’t in line with her classroom record. Different issues have different “fixes”, and her guidance counselor should be able to help her work through them. Three common problems: poor test-taking skills, test-induced anxieties, and unidentified learning disorders.</p>
<p>She also might like taking a look at the list of test optional and no-test schools at [The</a> National Center for Fair & Open Testing | FairTest](<a href=“http://www.fairtest.org%5DThe”>http://www.fairtest.org) </p>
<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>
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<p>On the other hand, this is not necessarily a bad thing, as plenty of students go to community college and later transfer as juniors to state universities that they did not get into as freshmen.</p>
<p>Community college is basically everyone’s default safety in case they are shut out of four year schools in freshman admission.</p>
<p>However, there are some less selective four year schools that have relatively late application deadlines like May 1.</p>
<p>SRDavis, given that your daughter was not in the top 10% of her class, UT admission was always a crapshoot, at best.</p>
<p>polarscribe apparently b/c my D wasn’t in the top 10% getting in to a 4 year college period is a crap shoot but thank you for your post.</p>
<p>ucbalum, I think they meant don’t just take a couple classes and then try to apply as a Freshman the following year because the school they are applying to may have a credit threshold where they may be considered an xfer student. This can be bad IF the student truly didn’t intend to be an xfer student and now has to go through the official motions of xfering into a school. This can be good IF the student is willing to commit to doing the (traditional?) transfer process.</p>
<p>I like options 2 and 4, or do a full fledged transfer.</p>
<p>SRDavis, no offense intended, but one has to look at the process of college admissions realistically. Every family needs a financial safety - a school you’ll get into and can afford. There are many, many Texas public colleges your daughter could have applied to and likely gotten in - the lower-tier UT System schools, Texas State, etc. Only applying to the two most selective public universities in the state and nowhere else is a recipe for trouble.</p>
<p>SRDavis…not to worry. Although her score is not high, she can still get into good universities with her score. GPA? EC’s appear great. There are definately schools that would still love to have your daughter. It would depend on what she wants to study, what kind of a school, size, etc. Don’t give up! Your daughter sounds wonderful. Find that hidden gem. My niece was denied at Johns Hopkins. Devasted!!! She was just accepted at York College in Pennsylvania. Nice private school, 9K students. Tuition is $15K. She is waiting on NYU, but has decided that this school is perfect for her undergrad and then she’ll go on to medical school with no debt. Start researching possibilites tonight. Have fun with it and find that pearl in the oyster. St Edwards is in Austin. I know it is a good school because my cousin teaches there. He graduated from MIT top of his class. Can’t wait to hear where your daughter has decided to apply next.</p>
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<p>UT Dallas give assured admission to students in the top 15% of their class (which 86 out of 709 is) who took the recommended or advanced high school curriculum at a Texas public high school.</p>
<p>[First</a> Time Freshman Admissions - Admission - 2011 Undergraduate Catalog - The University of Texas at Dallas](<a href=“UT Dallas Course Catalogs - UT Dallas University Catalogs - The University of Texas at Dallas”>UT Dallas Course Catalogs - UT Dallas University Catalogs - The University of Texas at Dallas)</p>
<p>Deadline is July 1:</p>
<p>[Application</a> Fees and Deadlines - Admission - 2011 Undergraduate Catalog - The University of Texas at Dallas](<a href=“UT Dallas Course Catalogs - UT Dallas University Catalogs - The University of Texas at Dallas”>UT Dallas Course Catalogs - UT Dallas University Catalogs - The University of Texas at Dallas)</p>
<p>@mum4college - Thank you for your post. It helps to hear stories like your nieces’ I am glad it is working out for her! We will definitely check out St. Edwards. D was accepted to Baylor but is $46K per year even with their financial offer they are $16K per year higher than state schools. Dad is trying to convince D to, like your niece, look at options that will allow her to still be a pharmacist only graduate with no debt. She will graduate HS with a pharm tech license and the “plan” was to do 2 years aggressive undergrad and apply to a pharm D program and finish in 6 years. The “plan” has changed… We will look at these other options and perhaps she will have to get her chem or biochem degree and then apply to Pharmacy School so it may take a little longer but may still end better.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus - Thank you for your info on UT Dallas it is greatly appreciated!
This is why I posted to get this kind of direction and help that you don’t know or can’t always see for yourself.
Thanks for the help we will investigate the options and let you guys know what happens and what she chooses! If nothing else you guys helped mom’s pysche which will help me help her! Thanks!!</p>
<p>You can check the web sites of other Texas public universities as well to see if the student’s class rank will produce assured admission and the deadline is in the future.</p>
<p>In general, Texas resident students who took the recommended or advanced curriculum in Texas public schools should be able to easily figure out if a Texas public university is an admission safety based on their class rank. However, two caveats are that cost and financial aid need to be checked, and certain divisions within a university may not be guaranteed by automatic or assured admission policies (e.g. top 8% gets into UT Austin, but does not guarantee admission to the engineering division there).</p>
<p>A safety with a late deadline may not even need to be applied early – one can save the application fee and effort unless one gets “shut out” of other schools. However, be aware that some universities with late deadlines may have earlier deadlines for scholarships, or earlier deadlines for priority consideration (with later applicants being considered only on a space available basis, which means that they may not be safeties when applying late even if they would have when applying early).</p>