Did you apply for LAH? If so, check here. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/lahonors/scholarships/ Also, http://www.utexas.edu/cola/scholarships/dedman/ The deadlines may be passed for some of them... There's also various opportunities that come up during the year. Filling out the FAFSA, even if you're not going to get need based aid, is beneficial. I don't think anyone will the business school "suffers" from horrible grade inflation. I'm also not particularly fond of some of the admissions decisions. As far as your job, congrats! All's fair though - I think I inflicted severe pain on a few dozen hopeful engineers by ruining their calculus curve in a class I didn't even need at the time.
If an EE gets hurt by a curve in an Calculus class, theres a good chance he wont make it into major sequence anyways. You're just helping to weed them out earlier Though now that I think about, I did seem to do bad in my second calc class......... though I kick the **** out of DiffEq, take that class big man and then we'll talk
I got flat out denied. I did not expect to get into the business school but I did expect to be defered to a different major. I guess it just didn't happen. Other than class rank I don't know what my weakpoint was. I had good SAT's and lettered three years in football and one year in basketball and was a member of NHS. I couldn't have done much else.
Wow LAFade that just sucks. Where do you go now? Also, I only mentioned that I had a graduating class of 78 just to emphasize what odds I was against.
LAfade As much as it pains me to say this as a longhorn, go to Oklahoma. They give out a lot of money for out of staters, have just as good and in some areas better program academically than UT. Though their social scene aint like Austin, if you are looking for an education OU is just as good as UT. If you're willing to do Engineering, A&M isn't that bad from a academic perspective either.
Wow, things have gotten rough. I never took the SAT, was not top 25% in highschool class and I got into UT biz school back in 1997. I did my first year at a community college then transfered into UT natural science. Then decided I wanted to go to the Biz school. completed 30 hours at UT with a 3.6 GPA and they accepted me. I guess they consider a UT GPA the real thing and don't bother with the other stuff.
I'm going to Tulane on a near full scholarship and I'm in the honors program. Don't know how long I'll stay there. Depends if I like it or not.
Top 25%, 1320 on SAT and got in. Im sure that being an officer in 4 or 5 clubs helped out quite a bit too. Not to mention a ridiculous amount of community service. Plus got lots of help on my essay to make sure it was good.
If you want a basically guaranteed "in" apply for the school of social work, then during your first semester, change schools. If you're not top 10%, you're going to need something else to make up for it besides just SAT scores. Volunteer hours, clubs, recommendations... You need to show that you're a well rounded student.
Just go to Texas State, better looking women, nicer campus, and still close to Austin. You can hire all the UT grads you want later in life. DD
to last three posts. Yeah I don't know I'll be finding out my rank this year. I think I'm top 12% or something, but my school is a competitive nerd school..and yeah I have a bunch of extracurriculars. You know how they say they don't want to see a bunch of crap listed for what you've done..but what if it's true? What if you've really done all the crap? Ehhh whatever. Schools I'm thinking about..Rice, Trinity, UCBerkeley, UTAustin, Baylor, A&M College Station, and UH. Maybe UCSan Diego. First 3 are "reach schools".
Hey guys, i'm wondering the same thing. I'm applying for spring of '06. My grades in high school were weak (super weak to be honest), but I'm about to finish 6 years in the Navy in the nuclear field and my test scores ACT/SAT scores are all mid 90th percentile. It seems like a school considering such a large number of applicants may just write me off based on those 6 year old high school scores. Will a recommendation really get me in like that?
I'm not an admissions counselor, but I'm pretty sure that being in the Navy for 6 years makes up for weak HS grades. I'd still send in a recommendation anyway though.
Honestly, unless you're in the top 10 in your school (and that's just a starting point), basically kick ass on the SATs (2250 on up), and have tons of extracurricular activities and good recommendation letters, I'd nix Rice and Berkeley. Rice was pretty selective the year I graduated (they put my graduating class Valedictorian on the freakin waiting list) and Berkeley....I wouldn't try. Reach schools or not, it's better to NOT waste the application fee heh.
Instead of applying to Berkeley, you should try Michigan. It's the second best public school behind Berkeley and ranked only one spot below overall. They accept a lot of out of staters, but it's a hefty price to pay. $28,000 a year but it's similar to Berkeley's.
