What do you need to get into UT Austin? Top 10% is automatic right..but anyone here make it and not top 10%? And SAT score of 2000 good enough?
So the SAT is on a 2400 point scale now? In the past, a 1200 combined with a top-25% ranking usually was good enough to get you into the university. However, business and engineering are more selective than othen colleges like liberal arts so you might need better scores.
it wasnt even 10 years ago (1997) that a high school 'c-b' student with a 1100 sat and 75 hours of community college credit could just transfer in w/ no hassle at all. there was literally nothing to it - no essays, inteveriews, tests. 12 hours cost about $1,400. ive heard its at least 3 times that much now.
right here. I was at the 15.2% of the class (i remember hahah) and i had a 1180 SAT score and I got in. I think it was in part of the extracurricular activities (HOSA, NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Health Mentorship, etc) and my essays that got me in.
I did not get accepted last year with a 1400 sat and top 11.7%. I was applying for Business school which may have had something to do with it. However, I believe they are changing the rule next year to top 5% or something like that so that they are not forced to accept every top 10% while qualified applicants like myself from better schools are not accepted.
It is all about who you know, if you know an alumni and have decent enough grades you'll get in. Alumni hold the purse strings to the school... I know one of the head's of the Alumni and he gets people in all the time with just a phone call... just wish I would have known him when I was 18
That is absolute BS. You had better scores than most incoming freshman and they don't let you in because of that ridiculous top-10% rule? No wonder our rankings aren't as high as they should be.
i doubt it's that. i bet if he applied into Natural Sciences or Liberal Arts...heck probably even engineering...he would have gotten in. School of Business is pretty hard to get into. I know of only 3 people from my graduating class that got into the School of Business and they were in the top 20 of the graduating class.
Understood, but under most circumstances they defer your admission into Liberal Arts or another college by default. Maybe admissions policies have changed since I graduated in December 2002.
I got in and I was top 11%, but I didn't get into my first choice of Business. I did, however, get my second choice which was chemical engineering and their program is ranked number 5, but I decided to go elsewhere. nearly all my friends got summer programed or CAPped.
I'm going to UT in the fall. I had a 1450 SAT and was like top 3%. I was also a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Despite all that, UT isn't giving me much money. I got some scholarship money from the National Merit Scholarship people, and I could have gotten an extra $3,000 for being a National Hispanic Scholar, but UT only gives you one or the other. And that's my problem. With this 10% rule, they have a lot of people getting in that are pushing out other, more qualified people. They're overcrowded, and they want to make it as hard as possible to get in to discourage more people from coming in and making things even harder for them. So scholarship money that I probably could have gotten didn't come to me because they're stingy as all hell (But hey, buddy, be sure to take lots of our loans so you can pay those back for the rest of your life). I hope they institute some kind of change. I was reading that they're going to change it so that top 10% only makes up half of their student roster, with the other half going to people that weren't top 10%, but are still people that deserve to be in.
i actually wanted to go into business but that was more of a dream venture. what i really wanted to do (and will try to do this year) is get into optometry school and become an optometrist. but yea, knowing that the chance was slim to get into UT through their school of business was slim, i took the 'easier' route and got accepted into natural sciences. Understood, but under most circumstances they defer your admission into Liberal Arts or another college by default. Maybe admissions policies have changed since I graduated in December 2002. I think you're right. They'll place you into Liberal Arts if you don't pursue any particular field. Personally I think the 10% or 5% or whatever it is rule is decent. There are advantages (you get rewarded for hard work and going to school in-state is almost always cheaper when compared to similar academic schools outside of TX) but there are drawbacks (it wasn't your fault that your school was full of geniuses; or "average" kids going/moving to an 'easier' school midway through high school to get a higher standing). Either way, it's a system-you can work with or you can work against.
I'm majoring in Government in the college of Liberal Arts. I know that there are department-specific scholarships and such, but I was told that they're usually given to upper-classmen and not freshmen (which would be me).
I had a graduating class of 78. I wasn't top-10% but I was in top quartile. 1300 SAT. I got into the engineering college.
Was in like 17% of my highschool, 1430 on the SAT and quite a decent list of extra curriculars, still got rejected from MIS program of UT Business school 4+ years ago despite getting into a lot of other top 10 MIS programs in other parts of the nation. Got defered to UT Electrical Engineering department instead and I was like what the hell, I like computers. I had no idea what I was getting into. After a couple of shocks which really crushed my gpa during the "easy early semesters", I manage to pull my gpa to some respectable, not good or maybe not even avg (if 3.2 is average gpa of graduating EE's from what I've heard), but respectable range. Ended up getting an offer from a financial company as an business analyst out of school and took a job slot away from a Business major. Pay back is a b!tch aint it My advice, try to get into the Electrical Engineering school, easier to get into, much more hellish to get out, but if you do it the right way, you'll gain critical thinking and problem solving skills which helps out a lot more during interviews with tests/cases then a higher GPA you'll get at the business school. Though you might want to take some non EE classes to make sure your communication and behavior skills aren't completely degenerated.
