<p>If you raise your score, have decent recs, write good essays, and have a rigorous senior schedule, you have a good chance of getting in. It helps that you’re in-state.</p>
<p>My friend who was in the top 20% got in. He took a ton of AP classes junior and senior year (AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, etc.). His test scores were very high (like an 800 on the Math II SAT Subject Test).</p>
<p>As for other schools, you could try Texas A&M.</p>
<p>I do not want to go to A&M because it is in a boring area and is a little too redneck for my liking. Also the acceptance rate is something like 79% so I was thinking I could do a little better than that…</p>
<p>I can go out of state so wher would be the best school my creds can get me into in the nation?</p>
<p>I wish i had good news, but your class rank and GPA can be topped easily by other prospective students, and UT-Austin makes the first cut based on those two, essays, and standardized test scores. The SAT scores are high but they don’t gauge the chance of success you’ll have at the school like class rank and GPA will. In other words, youll be tagged as one of those super-intelligent yet undisciplined kids. 20% chance unless you have National Merit, Commended Scholar, National Hispanic, or something that few kids have.</p>
<p>I have gotten the National Merit Qualifier notification and I am waiting to find out if I will be a semifinalist or just commended. I am thinking I will just be commended because my score of 210 is not overly competitive. But will commended raise my chances significantly???</p>
<p>I have gotten the National Merit Qualifier notification and I am waiting to find out if I will be a semifinalist or just commended. I am thinking I will just be commended because my score of 210 is not overly competitive. But will commended raise my chances significantly???</p>