<p>It should have been a safety… Any state flagship that shuts out a 3.85 student from a magnet school with a 2200 SAT and 35 ACT is not doing it’s job. A state flagships job is to educate the brightest students that a state has to offer, with no regard for their background. I honestly find this disturbing that so many people think what Texas is doing is fine.</p>
<p>Big population states with many state universities and relatively low numbers of students going to private universities tend to have state flagships which are more selective than states where the state flagship takes in a much larger percentage of the state’s graduating high school seniors.</p>
<p>The other problem here is whether to evaluate students’ high school records by grades (vulnerable to differences in grade inflation and course rigor at different high schools) or class rank (vulnerable to different levels of student competitiveness at different high schools), or a combination (some vulnerability to both problems). Either method could lose some top students. Texas chose class rank. At least the rules are well publicized so that students and parents can plan for them.</p>
<p>“Texas’ 8% and 10% rule really hurts kids who attend private or specialty high schools.”</p>
<p>According to the OP, 65% of the students at this school get into UT. So if that’s correct, it isn’t the 8% rule that kept the OP out.</p>
<p>^Maybe it was that 65% who applied got in.</p>
<p>You are out of state for UCLA. There are so many competitive in-state residents who have records just like yours; you need to be really outstanding to be admitted from OOS. Same thing with UNC-Chapel Hill, although they admit more people from outside of NC.</p>
<p>Are you not in the top 8% in Texas? UT-Austin is pretty competitive for students not in the top 8%. </p>
<p>At Wash U and Rice, you are an average applicant. Seriously. Your SAT scores fall in their middle 50% admitted applicants; your ECs are good but not outstanding; and other students probably also have similar GPAs, good recommendations and good essays. At that point, there are just more qualified applicants than there are slots and the selection becomes a bit more arbitrary, so it’s hard to say.</p>
<p>A state flagships job is to educate the brightest students that a state has to offer, with no regard for their background.</p>
<p>Says who? I think that perhaps UT-Austin’s selection process may amount to racial quotas at least on a subconscious level, if they are trying to maintain a certain percentage of students from different backgrounds. But I think UT-Austin is the one who gets to determine what their mission is, and for them, a student’s background may be important. Students learn from one another, and a diverse student body enriches everyone who attends - I attend a very diverse prestigious university, and I see the students here learning from each other all the time.</p>
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<p>Not true.</p>
<p>UNC is capped at 18% OOS. UCLA says on its website it admitted 18% OOS. Since UCLA is much bigger, it admits more people from OOS. But, it’s immaterial. </p>
<p>good luck to you.</p>
<p>If you are open to attending universities in Canada, you have a very high probability of being admitted. BTW, some of those, such as McGill, Toronto & British Columbia, are among the top 50 in the world. Western Ontario has a fairly good reputation in business. </p>
<p>Canadian universities’ foreign student tuition may be somewhat similar to our OoS tuition. Please note it takes lot of patience in dealing with the admission folks. I have found them to be quite bureaucratic. </p>
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<p>@ucbalumnus: Not saying it is; just that the same applies to match schools. People seem to have the idea that if you get rejected from a school it automatically becomes a reach. If that was true, there wouldn’t be any point in having separate categories for “match” and “safety.”</p>
<p>Quite a few posts that shine with ignorance about Texas’ admissions.</p>
<p>I may have missed this if suggested by others but the University of St. Andrews in Scotland is quite good ANd they have rolling admissions for another month or so. You will likely be accepted with your stats (good enough for the prince and Kate).</p>
<p>@xiggi: I hope you aren’t talking about mine.</p>