<p>@ dallasscholar really high safety???..college counselor told me a reach school for her since they do not take many out of staters or any from our high school…
she applied ED 1 to Vandy but def very interested in UT…</p>
<p>@aek525 also from NJ and havent heard anything </p>
<p>are you directly admitted into the business school at UT? or do you have to apply later?</p>
<p>At my in-state school, there is a high number of students who get accepted and attend UT and McCombs for both ranked and non-ranked students because our school is extremely competitive and respected. Would that have any influence at all regarding my acceptance to UT and also McCombs?</p>
<p>bb2mom – UT does not super-score. UT will, however, use the results from a single test date that gives your daughter the best chance. Google the HB 588 report – Report 13 dated Dec 23, 2010. Go to the last 2 pages. There you will find the equations UT uses to estimate freshman GPA. The formulas use class rank (HSR) and the ACT/SAT section scores. </p>
<p>Note:<br>
(1) The HSR coefficient in the Business SAT formula is significantly higher than for the other colleges.<br>
(2) The composite score does not appear anywhere in these formulas.
(3) The same section scores are not used in every college’s formula.</p>
<p>UT compresses all the admission <em>stuff</em> for non-auto admits into 2 dimensions: (1) expected freshman GPA and (2) other. Under “other”, the essay ‘grades’ get a weight of 3/7ths and everything else fills in the remaining 4/7ths. FYI: Depth & leadership in the extracurricular stuff (e.g., the 10 years of dance + 3-4 as an assistant) is more important than hundreds of hours of volunteering. </p>
<p>Somewhat surprisingly, the AP courses & test scores don’t matter all that much. Applicants get an extra 0.1 on the GPA scale for a challenging curriculum, but not much else. In other words, the thousands & thousands of data points UT has collected over the years indicates that AP courses don’t add much predictive value after you filter out the impact of high school rank and standardized test score. (Kids with high test scores and great grades are also usually the ones getting 4’s and 5’s on the AP exams.)</p>
<p>You can find all of this information with a creative use of Google and the UT website.</p>
<p>brighdalake – Yes, it will influence the decision, but in only a minor way. If your school uses Naviance, then you should be able to see how you compare with others from your school in years past. I have such graphs (ACT/SAT vs. GPA with admission results plotted) for my sons from our local school. I found it VERY helpful.</p>
<p>@FormerProf thanks so much for the info…her non superscore is 1450 (750 + 700) /2170…i will go google what you suggested and do some more research…thanks again!</p>
<p>Can someone give any insight on my chances as a non-auto admit? I’m looking into Natural Sciences as a CS major.</p>
<p>Class Rank: > 15% ( I was told 5 spots away from top 10% out of 109 students, and our school doesn’t rank)
GPA: 3.63 Unweighted / 4.21 Weighted
SAT/ACT: 1930 / 31
AP Scores: AP Lang (4), AP Bio (3) Self-studied, didn’t take class
Courses: AP Lit, AP Calc AB, Econ AP/Gov AP, Physics Pre-AP, Art AP, Creative Writing, Finite Math/Elements of Calc. DC.
EC:
<p>Essays: Very good according to English teacher and college counselor
Recommendations: Good
State: Texas
School: Small private school
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian</p>
<p>To all posters curious about their chances at UT,</p>
<p>Here is a link to the 588 publication I referenced in an earlier post. </p>
<pre><code> www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report13.pdf
</code></pre>
<p>The report contains a detailed discussion of admissions procedures at UT and statistics (ACT/SAT, GPA, etc) indexed by ethic group, auto-admit, etc. The expected freshman GPA formulas are at the end of document in footnote #9.</p>
<p>Here is a second link to files of interest:</p>
<pre><code> Admissions Research: Student Profiles - UT Austin
</code></pre>
<p>@FormerProf,</p>
<p>The first link you posted does not work. The second does.</p>